(2015) Brahms & Schumann: Transcriptions for Viola & Piano - Ettore Causa, Boris Berman Piotr Ilitch Tchaikovsky It is characteristic of the

It is characteristic of the literary influence on music at the time that Brahms

he also recorded several CDs with French music and the contemporary repertoire (Debussy

a composer who not only lived to see the development of chamber music from Haydn to Spohr

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(2015) Brahms & Schumann: Transcriptions for Viola & Piano - Ettore Causa, Boris Berman Piotr Ilitch Tchaikovsky It is characteristic of theNow all instruments will have their turn wrote Clara Schumann in her diary in early 1849. Her husband Robert had just finished two sets of duos with piano: one for clarinet, the next for horn (the Fantasy Pieces op. 73 and the Adagio and Allegro op. 70 recorded here), and he had made clear to her his intention to proceed in similar fashion across the instrumental spectrum. This was an exaggeration, for Schumann wasnt some Romantic proto Hindemith