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Christian Köhn is a pianist with a deep understanding of Brahms' piano music. Now he has edited a new Urtext edition of Brahms' variations (1861) on an eight-bar theme from Handel's 'Keyboard Suite #1? ('Suite de pièces de Clavecin?, Vol. 2).Köhn has drawn on every available source and incorporated the most recent musicological discoveries. With his fingering, a well-presented layout and optimum page turns, the volume meets all the demands of a practical performing edition.A detailed foreword illuminates the work's genesis and sources while presenting valuable information on contemporary performance practice. This scholarly-critical edition of the 'Handel Variations? adds a central work to Bärenreiter's comprehensive series of Brahms' piano music in Urtext editions.- Urtext edition based on all known sources and the latest musicological findings- With optimum page turns- Informative foreword (Ger/Eng) and Critical Commentary (Eng)- Includes fingering and suggestions on performance practice (Ger/Eng) / Piano

Le séjour de Johannes Brahms à Bad Ischl durant l'été 1893 fut fructueux. Hormis les pièces op. 118, il composa également son dernier cycle pour piano, l'opus 119. Il écrit à Clara Schumann que la pièce d'introduction fourmille de dissonances et indique plus loin que 'chaque mesure et chaque note doit sonner en ritardando, comme si on voulait extraire de ses dissonances de la mélancolie avec volupté et délectation!' Que l'on se rassure, l'op. 119 contient des morceaux pour tous les états d'âme: le #3 surprend par sa tonalité d'Ut majeur, légère et enjouée, la dernière pièce est une rapsodie rétive en Mi bémol majeur. Grâce à notre édition révisée d'après l'édition complète des oeuvres de Brahms, nous invitons les pianistes à redécouvrir le monde complexe de Brahms. / Piano

26 Arrangements for the Beginning Pianist-Suitable for beginning pianists of all ages this volume features 26 simplified versions of longer pieces by the great Johannes Brahms in order of increasing difficulty.Selections include the famous 'Lullaby' as well as the theme from 'Academic Festival Overture' and 'Hungarian Dance No.5'. Additional melodies include themes from the composer's quintet and concertos for Piano 'Variations on a theme by Haydn ' and other pieces.

Brahms wrote only two concerti in his lifetime each one an important staple of the concert repertoire. These masterpieces are featured here in full score in one convenient affordable volume. Pianists conductors music students and scholars will find this edition ideal for study and performance purposes.

revised single edition from HN 38-Johannes Brahms?s piano sonatas opp. 1 2 and 5 were among the first works that the then 20-year-old composer published. Much of the music of the f-minor Sonata is closely connected to Brahms?s visit to Robert and Clara Schumannin Düsseldorf in the autumn of 1853. There are indications that the young Brahms was inspired by Robert Schumann?s Sonata op. 14 which was also in f minor. The music critic Eduard Hanslick also believed that he could discern theinfluence of Brahms?s older colleague when he wrote about the Sonata op. 5: ?The whole of Brahms is here though still under the spell of Schumann?. This revised Urtext edition is based on the musical text of the New BrahmsComplete Edition. The fingerings are by Andreas Boyde and offer the performer highly ingenious solutions to mastering this piano work that is so symphonic in scope.

Par BRAHMS JOHANNES. Brahms’s Clarinet Trio, composed in 1891, was inspired by the exceptional musicality of clarinettist Richard Mühlfeld. As he did for his horn trio, Brahms prepared a viola part as a possible alternative to the clarinet. Both scorings were rehearsed (the viola part being played by Joseph Joachim) prior to the premiere and publication of the work. Bärenreiter’s scholarly-critical edition, prepared by Christopher Hogwood, offers a foreword on the trio’s compositional process with comments on performance practice, as well as a comprehensive critical commentary and facsimile excerpts of the manuscript. Viola part included as an alternative to the clarinetpart With a detailed foreword (Eng/Ger) on the work’s genesis and performance Practice/ Répertoire / Clarinette ou Alto/Violoncelle/Piano

With the new Urtext Primo series, the Wiener Urtext Edition wants to close the gap arising at the point of transition to additional lessons after having studied a piano method. Beginning with a performance level which is outlined by pieces such as Bach's Minuet in G (BWV Anh. 116), Mozart's Minuet in F (KV 5) or Schumann's Wilder Reiter (Op. 68/8), works by three different composers are selected for each volume of the Urtext Primo series, with the aim of offering piano pupils (or even adults who want to resume piano playing) a wide range of repertoire pieces on the basis of which they can enhance their technical and musical skills. The pieces' range of levels of difficulty is relatively narrow so that the volume can be used continuously over a period of about two years. This is what distinguishes the Urtext Primo approach from almost all common anthologies. The selected repertoire takes into account not only pieces of the classic canon of lessons, but also lesser known works which are in no way of less importance for piano lessons. The Urtext Primo volumes are published in the internationally recognised standard of the Wiener Urtext editions. The explanations included in each volume shall help to deepen the knowledge of musical styles, music history and piano playing. A repertoire chart at the end of each volume gives a rough overview of the levels of difficulty of the selected pieces.Volume 4 combines works of the German Romanticism by Schumann, Brahms and Theodor Kirchner. Apart from well known pieces from Schumann's 'Album for the Youth' and the easiest waltzes from opus 39 (in the easier version) by Brahms, the selection contains the attractive set of variations from Schumann's first Youth Sonata Op. 118/1 and Brahms' Saraband in A minor WoO 5/1 as well as a number of pleasant pieces by Theodor Kirchner which continue the tonal air of Schumann and Brahms in easy playable pieces. / Piano

Brahms completed his Cello Sonata op. 99 during the productive summer of 1886. The first public performance took place in Vienna on 24 November of the same year. Robert Hausmann played the cello part and the composer himself was his partner at the piano. Even though the work was generally received positively, it took some years until it was fully appreciated and gained its irrevocable place in the cello repertoire.Of particular value to the editors were the two early performance editions of the Cello Sonata op. 99 by Hugo Becker and Carl Friedberg, as well as by Julius Klengel. Both cellists, Becker and Klengel, had a connection to Brahms who very much admired and trusted Becker's playing and who performed together with Klengel. This edition not only incorporates Becker's and Klengel's performance markings but also Hausmann's for whom the piece was written. As such, the Barenreiter edition comes with a cello part marked with fingering and bowing by the editors which are based on the practices of Brahms' contemporaries. We also provide an unmarked Urtext part.An important part of this edition is the extensive Preface. Firstly it informs about the work's origin, early performances, its publication as well as early reception. Truly remarkable is the unique Performance Practice Commentary. Here the editors take the premise that already a few decades after Brahms' death, a widening gulf developed between the composer's expectations and the performance practices of the early 20th century. In a very concrete and practical way, the editors summarize some of the key issues in understanding Brahms' notation with regard to rhythm and timing, dynamics and accentuation, dots and strokes, slurring and non legato, piano pedalling and overholding, piano arpeggiation and dislocation, string instrument fingering, string instrument harmonics and vibrato. In this way, the edition offers an exciting and often surprising insight into Romantic musical interpretation.- A pioneering Urtext edition- With an unmarked Urtext part- With a second part including fingering and bowing based on the practices of contemporaries of Brahms- With an extensive Performance Practice Commentary- For further information on Romantic performance practice we recommend the text booklet: 'Performance Practices in Johannes Brahms' Chamber Music?, BA 9600 / Violoncelle Et Piano