Credits:

Sf Ballet Orch

Description:

In the days before recordings, the only way to enjoy large orchestral or operatic works was to go to a concert or to "actually perform" them by oneself or with one's friends, based on a score arranged for a smaller ensemble. Publishers then commissioned composers and arrangers to create "arranged versions" of their works. These sold like hotcakes, and people enjoyed the music as they pleased. Schumann and Brahms also made many arrangements of their own works, but the supply could not keep up with the demand, so they asked their trusted friends and family members to make arrangements of their own works, and many of them became available. Paul Klengel, the brother of the famous cellist Julius Klengel, was also a renowned pianist and composer, as well as the "in-house arranger" for the publishing house Zimrock, with whom Brahms was very close. Brahms himself highly praised the quality of Krengel's arrangements, and these two works have been exquisitely transposed for solo piano. Naxos Japan

Tracklisting:

1.Andante
2.Scherzo. Allegro
3.Adagio mesto
4.Finale. Allegro con brio
5.Allegro
6.Adagio
7.Andantino - Presto non assai, ma con sentimento
8.Con moto