Clarinet Quintet

A new transcription for clarinet and piano of the first movement of Johannes Brahms' beautiful, autumnal Clarinet Quintet (Clarinet in A and String Quartet).

This is the only published arrangement of Brahms' wonderful Clarinet Quintet which uses the Henle Urtext edition, correcting a number of errors in previous editions. The piano part has been devised to incorporate as much of the string quartet accompaniment as possible. Where this causes the pianist difficulties, Brahms' original concept are shown as small notes which can either be incorporated into a performance where possible or ignored. This reproduces Brahms' brilliant textures and rich, autumnal harmonic colours to their fullest extent.