Amusing variations over a birthday song. Par LUDWIG CLAUS-DIETER. The Happy Birthday menus for two- (ED0 9748) and four-hand (ED0 9749) piano, for accordion duo (ED 8054) or string quartet (ED 7717) by Claus-Dieter Ludwig are well-known and extremely popular. Now the successful arranger presents a new edition for violin, cello and piano. Enjoy your musical meal with these five birthday courses:/ Répertoire / Trio avec Piano

Piano Trio no. 1 in d minor op. 49. Mendelssohn is considered a self-critical composer, who repeatedly reworked a number of his pieces until he deemed them worthy to be published. The path to his first Piano Trio was particularly rocky: only after several attempts was he able to complete it in the summer of 1839: it appeared in 1840 after further revisions. This perfectionism paid off, for Mendelssohn?s d minor Trio was immediately received with enthusiasm. Robert Schumann wrote: ?It is the master trio of the present day, like those of Beethoven in Bb and D and that of Franz Schubert in Eb were in their time: a very beautiful composition which after years will still delight grandchildren and great-grandchildren.? Which was to prove true: even today, it numbers among the most popular works in the trio repertoire in general. The trio, taken from the volume Mendelssohn · Piano Trios HN 957, is now available from Henle for the first time also as a practical single edition.

Popular classical and light music-Recapture the lost elegance of a bygone age with this wonderful collection of popular classics. Many of these charming pieces were firm favourites of bands and orchestras that once graced hotel lounges amd luxury liners the world over. In these new highly imaginative arrangements for Piano trio they will once again delight performers and audiences alike.

Opus 65-Dvo ák worked longer and more intensively on this Trio than on just about any other chamber music work. After his first successes with pieces inspired by Czech folk music namely the popular Slavonic Dances (HN 757 and918) he now wanted to prove himself as a composer of the highest order. This is why in the following summer he thoroughly reworked the Trio that he had written within eight weeks in spring 1883 before giving it to his publisher.Although Brahms? music was the undeniable model for the new work it did not hinder the unfolding of a very personal tone that blends expressiveness and passion. As with the ?Dumky? Trio op. 90 (HN 799) Andreas Groethuysen isonce again responsible for the fingerings of the Piano part.