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Urtextausgabe-In his Serenade no. 2 op. 16 composed in 1858 60 Johannes Brahms keeps to the usual smaller scoring for this genre using pairs of winds and horns as well as low strings (no violins!). His friendClara Schumann was delighted with the work but the public reaction was restrained and even Brahms himself was not happy with some details. Thus 15 years after the first performance he rigorously revised theserenade. Henle are now publishing this definitive version from 1875 that was new revised by the author as a study score with the musical text from the Brahms Complete Edition.
SKU: BR.PB-16106
The study score (,,Studien-Edition) is available at G. Henle Verlag.
ISBN 9790004214336. 10 x 12.5 inches.
Classical ReminiscencesDuring his time as conductor of the Detmold court orchestra, the young Brahms was inspired by the local wind ensemble to compose two serenades. Serenade No. 2, scored for five pairs of winds, violas, cellos, and string basses (leaving out the violins) is strongly reminiscent in sound of Mozart's wind serenades. The expressive Adagio is the heart of the five-movement work. Quite untypical of Brahms, he acquired a liking for the work from the outset, still undertaking a revision scarcely 15 years after the premiere of 1860; this has now been made available in a new practical edition based on the Johannes Brahms Complete Edition (JBG).
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ISBN 9790004344439. 10 x 12.5 inches.
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ISBN 9790004344422. 10 x 12.5 inches.
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ISBN 9790004344453. 10 x 12.5 inches.
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ISBN 9790004344446. 10 x 12.5 inches.
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ISBN 9790004341650. 10 x 12.5 inches.
Johannes Brahms was long reluctant to compete with Beethoven in the field of symphonic music. With his D-major Serenade in six movements, the young composer deliberately chose a genre that had had its golden era in the 18th century, thus before Beethoven. Initially, he even conceived the Serenade for a smaller setting, but decided on a full orchestra in 1860. But even then, it was slow in becoming an audience success.The new Brahms Complete Edition has chosen as its principal source a copy of the scores first edition that Brahms used as his personal work copy. There, however, errors remained undiscovered, and recurred in later print runs as well. It was not until the new Brahms Edition that a music text of the D-major Serenade is finally being published, a text that clearly heeds all of the composers emendations and eliminates other shortcomings.
SKU: BR.PB-16105
ISBN 9790004214329. 10 x 12.5 inches.
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ISBN 9790004341698. 10 x 12.5 inches.
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ISBN 9790004341704. 10 x 12.5 inches.
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ISBN 9790004341667. 10 x 12.5 inches.
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ISBN 9790004341681. 10 x 12.5 inches.
SKU: BR.EB-9441
ISBN 9790004189184. 9 x 12 inches.
The two sonatas of Johannes Brahms's op. 120 are widely hailed as crowning points of the repertoire for clarinet and piano. Moreover, in the version for viola and piano arranged by Brahms himself, they rank among the most frequently played viola works of the 19th century. They far surpass in compositional substance the relatively few original sonatas written for these instrumentations during the same period.Of the two fellow works, the Sonata No. 2 in E flat major is the more accessible. Diverging from the classical-romantic tradition, Brahms used the key of E flat major here not to express the heroic or monumental, but to obtain lyrical, chiefly restrained characterizations. The serenade-like beauty of the principal theme, which opens the sonata, has always been particularly admired. In his review of the world premiere, the renowned Viennese music critic Eduard Hanslick, a friend of Brahms's, raves with the words it was as if it had fallen from the Heavens. The closing set of variations also follows with gentle gracefulness this lyrical character. However, the middle movement, with its tempestuous outer sections in E flat minor and the hymnic trio in B major provides a passionate and serious contrast, which allows the flanking idyll to unfold its beauties all the more insistently.
SKU: BR.EB-9440
ISBN 9790004189177. 9 x 12 inches.