Swedish Dances Op. 63 – for Clarinet and Piano

Max Bruch, best known to posterity for his first violin concerto, wrote the present work for violin and piano and published it in 1892. The title Swedish Dances conceals that the composition indeed features also folkloristic elements which can be attributed to the Hebrew music. This is reflected even more in Luigi Magistrelli’s present arrangement for clarinet. Compared with the original version, the texture of the piano part is a bit more transparent in the arrangement.