2 Fantasy Pieces Op. 2

Easier Piano Pieces 61-19th-century Danish composer Niels Gade was strongly influenced by Mendelssohn and Schumann as can be appreciated from the highly romantic pieces in this album. This collection of pieces has been selected from albums published between 1850 and 1880.

Robert Schumann wrote his Fantasy Pieces for clarinet and piano in the course of two days in February 1849. Only a few days later they were premiered by Clara Schumann and the Dresden clarinetist Johann Gottlieb Kotte. Initially choosing the title Soirée Pieces for his works, Schumann finally decided to have them published as Fantasy Pieces, thereby emphasizing their poetical aspects. These connotations are also at the centre of clarinetist Elisabeth Eichenberg's notes on interpretation with special reference to the contemporary aesthetics of the clarinet sound. The edition is based on the first edition published in 1849 and also incorporates subsequent corrections in Schumann's personal copy. The compositional manuscript that has survived served as an important corrective. Besides the original clarinet part in A the edition also includes a transposed part for the B clarinet in order to make these standard works of the Romantic clarinet repertoire available to a wider circle of the clarinet community. / Clarinette Et Piano

paperbound-Carl Nielsen?s Fantasy Pieces for Oboe and Piano were composed in 1889/90. Having just gained a position as a violinist in the Royal Danish Orchestra Nielsen had already experienced successwith his String Suite Op. 1 both as a composer and as a conductor. Several sketches and autographs bear witness to his intensive work on these contrasting pieces for Oboe which were to appear in 1890 as his Opus 2.The twomovements Romance and Humoreske are dedicated to the oboist Olivo Krause who played in the royal orchestra. His beautiful tone and virtuosic technique probably played no small part in the fact that these miniatures by the?young talented composer? took the public and critics by storm at their first performance in March 1891.

Derek Bourgeois' Fantasy Pieces is a collection of unaccompanied pieces for every instrumenty of the orchestra. This is the Clarinet edition which inlcudes nine short works.

revised edition Compositeur : Schumann, Robert Instrumentation : Piano solo Editeur Musicologique : Herttrich, Ernst Couverture Reliée Contenu : Fantasy Pieces op. 12 (with appendix: WoO 28)

Compositeur : Schumann, RobertInstrumentation : Piano soloEditeur Musicologique : Boetticher, WolfgangCouverture ReliéeContenu : 3 Fantasy Pieces op. 111

Carl Nielsen's Fantasy Pieces Op.2 arranged for Flute and Piano accompaniment. Edited by James Galway and Toke Lund Christiansen.