Friday, June 24, 2011

Trio in B Flat Major by Reinecke

A German composer and conductor, Carl Reinecke was a shy type of person: he played piano really well, but despite his Europe tours he wasn’t a household name and didn’t appear in gossip columns. However, Reinecke was more than companionable when it came to the music: he was familiar with Schumann, Brahms, and Mendelssohn, and was a prominent pedagogue who had Edvard Grieg, Leoš Janáček, Isaac Albéniz, and other well-known composers among his pupils. His legacy counts almost three hundred pieces, and some of them are easy to find while others are not so – take Trio in B Flat Major for Clarinet, French Horn and Piano: it was impossible to find the score on the Net until recently. Luckily, it became available not so long ago, and what is especially great – with alternative transcription for violin and viola. Download it here: Trio in B Flat Major for Clarinet (or Violin), French Horn (or Viola) and Piano, Op.274.

Haydn's Miracle Symphony No.102

They call Joseph Haydn the father in music. He is considered to be, indirectly, the father of both the symphony and the string quartet, hav...