Wind instruments > Clarinet and Piano
Max Reger
Sonatas and Pieces for Clarinet and Piano
Editor: Michael Kube
39.50 €
Urtext Edition, paperbound
Pages: 157 (IX, 121, 27), Size 23,5 x 31,0 cm
Order no. HN 909 · ISMN M-2018-0909-0
Eight years after he had composed his first two Clarinet Sonatas op. 49, Reger confessed in a letter to a friend that he was once again committing "a new crime against harmony and counterpoint". He was referring to the Sonata for Clarinet and Pianoforte op. 107. Reger made a point of not destroying the chamber music character of the work by having too much virtuosic padding. "Brahms developed classic examples of what the style was meant to be like". Alongside the sonatas, our Urtext edition also contains two charming "encores": a Tarantella in g minor and an Album Leaf in E flat major. The Sonata op. 49,2 is for clarinet in A. The other pieces are for clarinet in B flat.
Reviews
Die vorliegende Henle'sche Urtext-Ausgabe besticht durch Akribie und gleichermaßen Umsicht des prominenten Musikwissenschaftlers und Herausgebers Kube, also auch durch Verlässlichkeit in der Textkritik gemäß den hohen Verlagsmaßstäben. Aus der zunehmenden Würdigung des Werks von Max Reger (...) strahlt nun (...) eine ersehnte hochqualitative Bündelung der drei Sonaten und der Tarantella mit ihrem symbiotisch verbundenen Albumblatt hervor. (...) Dem hervorragenden 122-seitigen Band gebührt jede Empfehlung.
[Das Orchester, 2013]
Contents
- Clarinet Sonata A flat major op. 49,1
- Clarinet Sonata f sharp minor op. 49,2
- Clarinet Sonata B flat major op. 107
- Tarantella g minor WoO II/12
- Album Leaf E flat major WoO II/13