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You can be rightfully pleased with what is coming! announced Clara Schumann self-confidently in late 1855 to the 24-year-old Joachim upon sending h...

Fauré composed his violin sonata in 1875/76 and in so doing opened up a new tradition for this genre in French music. In a review, Saint-Saëns expr...

Johann Pachelbel, born in Nuremberg in 1653, a generation before Bach, is one of Southern Germany’s most important post-Reformation organ composers...

All cellists are familiar with Debussy’s sonata, which he only composed in 1915, three years before his death. Debussy had, however, already writte...

The rediscovery of this concerto by the Bohemian composer is certainly a surprise for the violists, particularly since there is only very little or...

Schubert only took ten days to write his String Quartet in G major, one of his truly monumental chamber music works. With its almost symphonic dime...

Hummels “Potpourri” for Viola and Orchestra op. 94 is part of every viola player’s core re­pertoire, especially in its shortened version, the “Fant...

Edvard Grieg's only Cello Sonata remains one of the best kept secrets among cellists. Grieg wrote it for his brother John, an accomplished player o...

Polonaise Brillante C-major Op. 3 and Duo Concertant E major - Frederic Chopin - Cello G. Henle Verlag

With this cornerstone of the double bass repertoire we continue a still young but important part of our catalogue. This musically-charming work, fu...

“They are in a light style, intended more for use in the home than for concert performance”. Thus Smetana described these two duets in which he mem...

Thanks to its wealth of invention, elegant workmanship, and technical and musical challenges, Franz Anton Hoffmeister's Concerto "no. 1" has emerge...

The Symphonie espagnole for violin and orchestra, perhaps LaloŒÍs best-known composition, is found in the repertoire of violinists everywhere. The ...

For years Henle has been issuing urtext piano reductions of MozartΕs works for violin and orchestra at six-month intervals. Now the time has come ...

This is not only Mozart’s first concerto for the violin but his first concerto altogether. He composed it at the age of 17, writing it in Salzburg ...

GriegŒÍs Third Violin Sonata is one of his major creations and stands alongside the sonatas of Johannes Brahms and Cí©sar Franck at the pinnacle of...

Besides two genuine cello "hits" from the pen of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy -- the "Variations op. 17" and the "Song without Words op. 109" -- thi...

A short while ago Henle issued Mendelssohn’s second Violoncello Sonata, op. 58. Now the first Sonata, op. 45, is available for the first time as Ur...

“Virtuoso piece in the style of a Hungarian rhapsody” – thus reads Ravel’s entry on “Tzigane” in the so-called “Autobiographical Sketch”. Composed ...

Vieuxtemps is nowadays considered to be the foremost exponent of the Franco-Belgian violin school. Following a concert by the 14-year old Ζwunderk...

Franck - Sonata in A Maj - Cello/Piano Accompaniment Henle HN570

Wieniawski - Scherzo Tarantella in Gmin Op16 - Violin/Piano Accompaniment Henle HN553

From Max Reger's letters to his friends Karl Straube and Hans von Ohlendorff, we know that he composed his Three Suites for Unaccompanied Violincel...

Amongst VieuxtempsŒÍ seven violin concertos, the fifth in a minor is doubtlessly the best known and most popular by far. It was composed in 1860/61...

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After a twelve-year interval, Dvo?íçk once again turned his attention to the string quartet in summer 1893. He had been musical director in New Yor...

Just as Johannes Brahms had done with his Opus 120, Reger also provided parts for two alternative solo instruments for his Sonata op. 107: "I will ...