Format : Sheet music + CD
Performed by Jerome Bunke clarinet Accompaniment: Hidemitsu Hayashi piano Favorites of clarinetists and pinnacles of the repertoire these two sonatas are always popular on recital programs everywhere. Hear the piece performed by American virtuosoJerome Bunke then you play them again with his accompanist. Presented here in the original key with printed parts for B-flat clarinets this 2-CD set includes complete reference performance piano accompaniments plus a slow-tempo practice version of the accompaniments to help you as you learn the piece! Includes an expansive newly engraved music score for B-flat clarinet printed on high-quality ivory paper; and twocompact discs containing a complete version with soloist in digitally remastered stereo; then a second version in digitally remastered stereo of the accompaniment minus the soloist; plus a -20% slow-tempo version for practice purposes.
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.