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TWO SONATAS Op.120

TWO SONATAS Op.120

 
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Composer:Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Instrumentation:cl. pft.
Publisher Ref:HN987
Written within 2 years of the composer's death, these sonatas were well received by the critics of the day. One referred to their '... inner beauty and splendour' and wrote that the listener was '....offered a wellspring of the purest joys...'

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Arranger:Voss, Egon
Editor:Behr, Johannes
Skill Level:D/E
Publisher:G. Henle Verlag
Year of Issue:1974, 2002
ISMN:M201802749
ISBN:none specified
Brahms's friendship with the clarinettist Richard Muhlfeld prompted the richly autumnal beauty of the chamber music of his later years, probably best exemplified by the A minor Clarinet Trio, op.114 and the B minor Clarinet Quintet, op.115, both written in 1891.
The two sonatas, op.120 were composed three years later and were first performed by Muhlfeld in Vienna in 1895. Although they may not rival the Trio and the Quintet for depth and intensity, the colours and senses of autumn are still present in the first of the pair, in F minor, which has a clear emotional scheme of steadily increasing cheerfulness. The first movement is profoundly melancholic and the second less so but still elegiac. The third movement is a pleasing 'Landler' and the finale, a lively rondo.
The first of the three movements of the second sonata (Allegro amabile) shows Brahms at his mellowest and gentlest and that might explain its greater initial popularity over the first. After the Viennese premiere the critic Eduard Hanslick wrote of it "A theme that seems to have fallen from heaven or, better, wafted over from the most beautiful youthful days, full of sweet infatuation and ecstatic bliss of love!"

  • SONATA in F MINOR, Op. 120 No. 1
  • Allegro appasionato
  • Andante un poco Adagio
  • Allegretto grazioso
  • Vivace
  • SONATA in Eb MAJOR, Op. 120 No. 2
  • Allegro amabile
  • Allegro appassionato
  • Andante con moto Allegro

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