Brahms, Johannes: Sonatas, Scherzo and Ballades

Compositeur : Brahms, JohannesInstrumentation : Piano soloEditeur Musicologique : Georgii, WalterCouverture ReliéeContenu : Ballad [Edward-Ballad] d minor op. 10,1Ballad D major op. 10,2Ballad [Intermezzo] b minor op. 10,3Ballad B major op. 10,4Scherzo e flat minor op. 4Sonata C major op. 1Sonata f sharp minor op. 2Sonata f minor op. 5

With opuses 1 2 4 5 and 10 this volume contains virtually all of Johannes Brahms??? early piano oeuvre with which the budding composer and pianist introduced himself to the public. The Scherzo op. 4 from 1851 stands alongside the sonatas composed between 1851???53 as a substantial single movement that particularly delighted Robert Schumann leading him to direct the public???s special attention to his young colleague in his famous article ???New Paths??? in 1853. Written the following year the Four Ballades op. 10 complete the volume. Already they strike a new more Romantic note that Brahms described to Clara Schumann thus: ???They are not very difficult and even less difficult tounderstand???. This Urtext edition offers a revision of the musical text based on the new Brahms Complete Edition with an extensive preface by editor Katrin Eich. With opuses 1 2 4 5 and 10 this volume contains virtually all of Johannes Brahms??? early piano oeuvre with which the budding composer and pianist introduced himself to the public. The Scherzo op. 4 from 1851 stands alongside the sonatas composed between 1851???53 as a substantial single movement that particularly delighted Robert Schumann leading him to direct the public???s special attention to his young colleague in his famous article ???New Paths??? in 1853. Written the following year the Four Ballades op. 10 complete the volume. Already they strike a new more Romantic note that Brahms described to Clara Schumann thus: ???They are not very difficult and even less difficult tounderstand???. This Urtext edition offers a revision of the musical text based on the new Brahms Complete Edition with an extensive preface by editor Katrin Eich.

Johannes Brahms?s Piano Sonatas opp. 1 2 and 5 were among the first works that the 20-year-old composer published. They were composed in 1852/53 although the Sonata in f-sharp minor was apparently the first of the three to becomposed as it was finished by November 1852. This work has a special place in his oeuvre. Besides its passionate atmosphere his contemporaries discerned it to be ?serious and dignified in character?. Brahms dedicated thissonata to Clara Schumann whose husband Robert wrote to the composer that ?Your second sonata my friend has brought me much closer to you?. The ingenious fingerings have been provided by the pianist Andreas Boyde a recognisedBrahms expert.

Sonatas for Piano and Violin-Johannes Brahms s?int?ressa tr?s t?t au genre de la sonate pour violon. ? l?automne 1853 il proposa ? un ?diteur de Leipzig une sonate pour violon en la mineur. L??uvre ayant ?t? refu-s?e il semble que le compositeur tr?s critique envers lui-m?me l?ait ensuite d?truite de ses propres mains. Ses trois grandes sonates datent de sa maturit? l?op. 78 des ?t?s 1878 et 79 les opus 100 et 108 de l??t? 1886. Le scherzo en ut mineur constitue la contribution de Brahms ? la sonate pour violon ?crite conjointement avec Robert Schumann et Albert Dietrich en 1853 en guise de cadeau surprise pour le violoniste Joseph Joachim. Elle est connue sous le nom de sonate F-A-E(fa-la-mi). Avec ses contrastes marqu?s entre l?Allegro v?h?ment et le Pi? moderato d?une grande sensibilit? ce mouvement de scherzo constitue un morceau de bravoure tr?s appr?ci?.