Les oeuvres tardives de musique de chambre de Johannes Brahms comptent à coup sûr parmi les pages les plus merveilleuses jamais écrites pour la clarinette. Si Brahms, dans les dernières années de sa vie, semble avoir éprouvé une certaine lassitude de la composition, sa rencontre en 1891 avec Richard Mühlfeld, clarinettiste solo de la chapelle de la cour de Meinigen, qui l'enthousiasma par la beauté sonore de son jeu, lui inspira de nouvelles compositions. Le Trio op. 114, avec ses accents d'une mélancolie tout automnale est apprécié de tous les clarinettistes et est désormais disponible chez Henle dans une édition révisée. Le manuscrit autographe de l'opus 114 est conservé à Munich, patrie de la maison d'édition Henle. Le texte musical repose sur la nouvelle édition intégrale des oeuvres de Brahms et répond ainsi au plus niveau de précision et d'exactitude scientifique. Le pianiste Klaus Schilde a doté cette édition Urtext de précieux doigtés. / Trio pour Clarinette (Alto), Violoncelle Et Piano

Trio in d minor op. 3-Alexander Zemlinsky is mainly known for his operas and orchestral songs with their opulent late Romantic orchestration. His earlier inspired hit the Trio For Clarinet Op. 3 written in 1896 owes agreat deal to Zemlinsky’s first important role model Johannes Brahms as far as inflection and instrumentation are concerned. It was also Brahms who following its first performance in Vienna enthusiastically recommendedthe trio to his publisher Simrock.As the autograph has disappeared Henle’s edition follows the musical text in the first edition. It underwent careful examination and was cleared of numerous partly blatant engraver’serrors. Alongside the Piano score Henle’s edition comprises a part for Clarinet in Bb/A and an authentic alternative part for Violin as well as a Cello part.

Music for Clarinet in Bb, Cello and Piano. Par JOST CHRISTIAN. In this trio, as in most of his compositions, Jost has pictures and associations with true incidents, films and novels in his mind. What inspired him to write this piece was Joseph Conrad's novel 'Heart of Darkness' in which the protagonist Marlow says about the city of Brussels: 'In a few hours I arrived in a city that always make me think of a whited sepulchre.' In 'Sepulchral City', a work commissioned to mark the tenth anniversary of the Jerusalem Chamber Music Festival, however, the title refers to Jerusalem, the city of white tombs. The topic of Jost's trio is a travel into the soul and living spirit of a city, with no physical movement being needed to find the heart of impenetrable darkness: It lies within the city walls. In this respect, 'Sepulchral City' equals a compositionally unfolded funeral bell. Even the animated middle section rather has insisting than progressive power. At the end, the only thing to do is to inhale and exhale./ Répertoire / Clarinette en Bb, Violoncelle et Piano

Trio (Op. 10) was composed c.1940 and first published in 1943. It is scored for Clarinet Cello and Piano. One of Frankel’s earliest works it is light and pleasing showing how the composer was first influenced by jazz and classical chamber music before he later turned to larger symphonic works and started experimenting with serialism. Benjamin Frankel (1906-1973) was a British composer and musician. He is best remembered for writing over one hundred film and television scores including The Man In The White Suit and The Battle Of The Bulge but he also wrote eight symphonies and many smaller works such as his ViolinSonata and Concerto which were written for Max Rostal.