Johannes Brahms - Hungarian Dances 4, 5 & 6
for Clarinet, Cello and Piano

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) published two sets of Hungarian Dances as piano duets in 1869 and 1880. He had encountered the style and melodies while accompanying the Hungarian violinist Reményi on tour, and often improvised dances with him. Partly because of the enormous success of the publication, Brahms orchestrated three of the 21 Dances, numbers 1, 3 and 10, with other arrangers such as Dvořák completing the rest. For the most part, the Dances are based on original Magyar folk and Gypsy melodies and forms. These arrangements are for the same instrumentation as Brahms’s Trio in A minor, Op. 114, and are a faithful re-scoring of the original piano duet versions.

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Listen to performances here:

No. 4 in F# minor (3’55’)
No. 5 in F# minor (2’01’)
No. 6 in D major (3’00’)