Brahms had in fact wanted to stop composing in 1890, but his encounter with the clarinettist Richard Mühlfeld inspired him so much that he produced several works in a row for him over a brief period of time. The melodious Quintet op. 115 has been popular with musicians and audiences alike since its premiere in 1891. Even prior to printing - and presumably with a view toward further dissemination of the work - an alternate version was written with viola instead of clarinet, premiered by no less than Joseph Joachim and authorized by Brahms. The Henle Urtext edition, revised according the text of the New Brahms Complete Edition, thus also includes the alternate viola part. In a brief preface, editor Kathrin Kirsch provides insight into the genesis of the work and discusses interesting variants of transmission in the Comments.
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Composed in 1943. Duration 7 minutes. Full score. Parts available: PAT60070SP.
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This work, composed in 1878/79, alternates between chamber music intimacy and symphonic opulence, and marks the beginning of a series of significant late works by César Franck. Its composition was partly prompted by the successful performance of Franck's youthful piano trios at the “Société nationale de musique” (founded in 1871), and probably also by a composition competition for works using this instrumental combination whose deadline Franck then went on to miss. The Quintet was received coolly at its first performance in January 1880, and it was performed just a few more times during the composers lifetime. It was only in the 20th century that audiences and critics came to recognise this work as a major milestone in the history of French chamber music, and it now adorns the Henle catalogue in a new Urtext edition.
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Dance Suite is the last work to be written (mostly in late 1989) by the composer. Each movement is dedicated to a choreographer-friend. More than a pièce d'occasion, there are other layers of meaning in the work since each movement had its origin in other formats. These are mostly anniversary pieces composed for family and friends.
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This work for solo Guitar and woodwind quartet (Alto Sax, Tenor Sax, English Horn, and Bassoon) is one of the movements of the composer's FESTA DI DISCORSI CONCERTANTE, a 10-part work featuring various combinations of instruments.
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This arrangement of Finzi's perennially popular work for clarinet and piano was made to mark the centenary of the composer's birth on 14 July 2001. It was performed that day at a commemorative concert in Lichfield Cathedral by David Campbell (clarinet) and the Endellion String Quartet. It has since been recorded by Robert Plane (clarinet) and the Finzi Quartet (Resonus Classics RES 10109).
Purchasers should note that the set of parts on sale includes the string quartet parts only: clarinettists should use the part from the clarinet & piano edition which is fully compatible with the Christian Alexander arrangement.
See item 48009725 for the clarinet part.
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The composer, violinist and educator Louis Spohr (1784-1859) wrote a virtuoso adagio for his first wife, a virtuoso harpist and pianist. He later rearranged it for bassoon and piano. Includes solo parts for flute, clarinet, bassoon, violin, and cello.
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Full Score for Wind Quintet.
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Set of Parts only – no score
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This arrangement of Finzi's perennially popular work for clarinet and piano was made to mark the centenary of the composer's birth on 14 July 2001.
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Hans Winterberg (1901-1991) left behind a rich chamber music oeuvre, which has only recently been made accessible through first editions and CD productions. In addition to one string trio, four string quartets and two wind quintets for the standard instrumentation of flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon, his estate contains works in the most diverse and sometimes most unusual combinations of winds, strings and keyboard instruments. The Suite for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and harpsichord from 1959 was probably written - like many of his other works from the 1950s and 1960s - on commission from Bayerischer Rundfunk, although no traces of performances or broadcasts during the composer's lifetime have been found. As always with Winterberg, the unconventional, humorous and at times surreal handling of the material is surprising, making the Suite seem like an echo of Czech modernism of the interwar period, which Winterberg, who lived in Prague until his emigration to Munich in 1947, had a lasting influence on. The tonal language is moderately modern: Polytonality, modality, layers of fifths and fourths dominate. The character of the three movements is determined by the tension between the elegant aura of the harpsichord and the rusticity of the wind movement, between post-Janácek folklorism and neoclassical esprit à la Stravinsky.
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Reicha published a total of 24 wind quintets for the “classical” scoring of flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, and bassoon; Op. 88, No. 2 is one of the best-loved and most played. “If it were possible to surpass Haydn in the composition of quartets and quintets, Reicha would have succeeded with these quintets,” thus raved the “Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung” on a performance of Reicha's quintets, “it seems to me that it is impossible to unite more correctness and clarity with more inventiveness and originality.” This work exudes inspiration and spirit from every note. In addition to the parts, we have also produced a handy study edition of the score.
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Commissioned by the National Centre for the Performing Arts, Beijing for Zhang Weiliang and Fusion Quartet.
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Reicha published a total of 24 wind quintets for the “classical” scoring of flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, and bassoon; Op. 88, No. 2 is one of the best-loved and most played. “If it were possible to surpass Haydn in the composition of quartets and quintets, Reicha would have succeeded with these quintets,” thus raved the “Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung” on a performance of Reicha's quintets, “it seems to me that it is impossible to unite more correctness and clariety with more inventiveness and originality.” This work exudes inspiration and spirit from every note. In addition to the parts, we have also produced a handy study edition of the score.
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DeHaske Music Box Series for variable wind quintet (woodwinds and brass). (Grade 3)
The Albinoni Adagio is based on a manuscript that was discovered by Remo Giazotto among WWII ruins in the Dresden State Library. Only the bass line and six bars of melody remained, probably belonging to the slow movement of a trio sonata. Giazotto reconstructed the now-famous Adagio that has made Albinoni known to a wider public. Ironically enough, Albinoni himself would probably hardly recognize the piece. MORE»
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(B.C. in C)
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Duration: ca. 3 minutes.
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This work is a set of free variations drawn from a 13th-century Chinese drama by Kuan Han-Chimg. The complex cello and percussion writing focuses on the timbres, textures and fiddling techniques of Chinese ritual music and Ghost opera.
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Oboe and string quartet.
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A three-movement elegy for Cuba, past and present, portraying the hardships of the revolution and subsequent refugees.
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In addition to the Piano Concerto No. 1 and the Suite for Viola and Piano, this unusually scored Concertino is one of the earliest works that Winterberg composed after moving from Prague to Munich in 1947. In that year, Fritz Rieger, his old fellow student in Zemlinsky's conducting class, had premiered Winterberg's First Symphony, written in Prague in 1934/35, in Mannheim – it was the most important performance of one of the composer's works to date, and Winterberg could not only hope a new beginning after “Zero Hour”, but also for the real start of a career that had been denied in Prague from 1939 due to persecution and imprisonment on account of his Jewish origins. In contrast to important symphonic works, three piano concertos and string quartets, which were premiered and broadcast in Munich from 1950, Winterberg's chamber music for wind instruments - among thiem the Concertino - remained unperformed and unpublished during the composer's lifetime. With its rhythmic splendor, its unshakeable “Élan vital” and the humorous play with the eccentric combination of instruments, the piece seems like a reminder of the lost world of Dadaist surrealism in Prague between the wars.
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