Max Reger: Sonata op. 107: Clarinet: Score

Urtextausgabe-Eight years after he had composed his first two Clarinet Sonatas op. 49 Reger confessed in a letter to a friend that he was once again committing 'a new crime against harmony and counterpoint'. He was referring to the Sonata forClarinet and Pianoforte op. 107. Reger made a point of not destroying the chamber music character of the work by having too much virtuosic padding. 'Brahms developed classic examples of what the style was meant to be like'.Alongside the sonatas Henle's Urtext edition also contains two charming 'encores': a Tarantella in g minor and an Album Leaf in E flat major. The Sonata op. 49 2 is for clarinet in A. The other pieces are for clarinet in B flat.

Par REGER MAX. Format: New Edition portrait/ Répertoire / Clarinette ou Alto ou Violon et Piano

Clarinet Sonata op. 107-Just as Johannes Brahms had done with his Opus 120 Reger also provided parts for two alternative solo instruments for his Sonata op. 107: 'I will also arrange the clarinet part for viola so that the work can also be played thus'(letter to his publisher). He by no means wanted to leave the arrangement of the viola part to the publisher as slurs had to be changed here and there as well as octave transpositions had to be made - 'only I can do this work!'The viola’s sonorous mid range comes close to that of the clarinet but lends the work its own timbre. Viola players will also value this Urtext edition on account of the practical fingerings and bowing marks.