Brahms: 3 Sonatas Michael Collins & Stephen Hough

• Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897): Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Major, Op. 100 "Thun" (Arr. M. Collins for Clarinet & Piano):
• 1 Brahms: Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Major, Op. 100 "Thun" (Arr. M. Collins for Clarinet & Piano): I. Allegro amabile 08:05
• 2 Brahms: Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Major, Op. 100 "Thun" (Arr. M. Collins for Clarinet & Piano): II. Andante tranquillo - Vivace 05:54
• 3 Brahms: Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Major, Op. 100 "Thun" (Arr. M. Collins for Clarinet & Piano): III. Allegretto grazioso, quasi andante 05:25
• Clarinet Sonata No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 120 No. 1:
• 4 Brahms: Clarinet Sonata No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 120 No. 1: I. Allegro appassionato 07:43
• 5 Brahms: Clarinet Sonata No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 120 No. 1: II. Andante un poco adagio 05:07
• 6 Brahms: Clarinet Sonata No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 120 No. 1: III. Allegretto grazioso 04:08
• 7 Brahms: Clarinet Sonata No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 120 No. 1: IV. Vivace 04:47
• Clarinet Sonata No. 2 in E-Flat Major, Op. 120 No. 2:
• 8 Brahms: Clarinet Sonata No. 2 in E-Flat Major, Op. 120 No. 2: I. Allegro amabile 08:27
• 9 Brahms: Clarinet Sonata No. 2 in E-Flat Major, Op. 120 No. 2: II. Allegro appassionato 05:17
• 10 Brahms: Clarinet Sonata No. 2 in E-Flat Major, Op. 120 No. 2: III. Andante con moto - Allegro 07:05
• Total Runtime 01:01:58

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Friends of long standing as well as regular partners in chamber music, Michael Collins and Stephen Hough bring their combined musical insights and expertise to bear on Johannes Brahms’s sonatas for clarinet and piano. Together with the composer’s trio for clarinet, cello and piano and clarinet quintet, the sonatas are among the most treasured works in the repertoire of the instrument – but it is partly down to good luck that we have them at all. When Brahms in 1891 heard the clarinetist Richard Mühlfeld, principal clarinet of the Meiningen Court Orchestra, he had already announced his retirement. He was enraptured by Mühlfeld’s playing and its vocal qualities, however, and made a ‘comeback’: during the following couple of years he composed all four of his clarinet works. These were written especially for Mühlfeld, whose spirit does seem to pervade the two sonatas – we hear an unusually sunny and lyrical Brahms, with plenty of opportunity to sing for both instruments. When the sonatas were published, they appeared with alternative viola parts to replace the clarinet, and soon violin versions prepared by the composer were also brought out. For the opening work on the disc, Michael Collins has therefore taken a leaf out of Brahms’s book, by adapting the composer’s Violin Sonata No. 2, another late work. The amount of adaptation needed is small: a lot of the violin writing fits the clarinet well, and the sonata share much of the songlike quality of the two ‘real’ clarinet sonatas.

Michael Collins, clarinet
Stephen Hough, piano

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