In this version for clarinet or viola and string orchestra the 6 late song compositions of Johannes Brahms getan absolutely new and surprising sound.
 

Audio examples CLARINET
Feldeinsamkeit op. 86,2,Immer leiser wird mein Schlummer op. 105,2,Nachtwandler op. 86,3,Sapphische Ode op. 94,4,Wie Melodien op. 105,1,Wir wandelten op. 96,2.

Audio examples VIOLA
Feldeinsamkeit op. 86,2,Immer leiser wird mein Schlummer op. 105,2,Nachtwandler op. 86,3,Sapphische Ode op. 94,4,Wie Melodien op. 105,1,Wir wandelten op. 96,2.

Georg Friedrich Händel's Trio Sonata 5 HWV 400 in a version for 2 violas or 2 clarinets and basso continuo.

Key: Cmin, Level: medium

Duet songs with piano acompagniment, full of atmosphere. Why not as an instrumental duo or in a mixed version (vocal - instrumental)? The curve of expression stretches from tender and wistful over buoyant relaxed to vigorous energetic.

For high voices, level: medium.

Johannes Brahms wrote his last chamber music work, the E-flat major Sonata, op. 120, 2, three years before his death for the clarinetist Richard Mühlfeld. The fact that he published it alternatively for viola had to do with the then still noticeable lack of good wind players. The work consists of three movements. After a lovely opening movement in quiet Allegro, there follows a Scherzo in E-flat minor, with a
very song-like middle section in B major. The finale is a set of variations (theme and 6 variations) in Andante cantabile. Some of these are very developed character variations. The version with string orchestra transfers the piano movement to the manifold possibilities of an orchestra and forms completely new tonal aspects of this wonderful composition.
Clarinet: Viola:

Robert Schumann's "Myrten" op. 25, written in 1840, is a song cycle in four booklets that Schumann dedicated to his bride Clara Wieck and gave her as a wedding present on September 12, 1840.

From it the following titles:
1. Widmung, 2. Freisinn (1:57), 3. Der Nussbaum (3:04). 4. Die Lotosblume (5:57), 5. Talismane (7:40). 6. Zum Schluss (9:33)

A poet's love is a cycle of 16 songs by the composer Robert Schumann, whose Opus 48 was one of the highlights of the romantic art song. The cycle was written in 1840 for poems from Heinrich Heine's "Lyrisches Intermezzo", a collection of 65 poems that had appeared in tragedies together with a lyrical intermezzo in 1823, then in the Book of Songs in 1827. Of the 20 songs composed, 16 were finally printed.
Here is a version for clarinet or viola and string orchestra with completely new sound aspects.
9. Das ist ein Flöten und Geigen, 10. Hör ich das Liedchen klingen (1:27), 11. Ein Jüngling liebt ein Mädchen (2:54), 12. Am leuchtenden Sommermorgen (3:54), 13. Ich hab im Traum geweinet (5:58), 14. Allnächtlich im Traume (7: 53), 15. Aus alten Märchen winkt es (8:57), 16. Die alten, bösen Lieder (11:14)

The first booklet of the "Songs without words" (op.19 composed about 1829-30) was initially called Melodies for the Pianoforte. The current version makes a division of the piano part into a clarinet and a piano voice. The keys are adjusted, the ranges of the clarinet are reduced.

This very charming song cycle "Frauenliebe und -leben" of Robert Schumann gets in this version for clarinet or viola and string orchestra a absolutely new and surprising sound.

These are originally concertos for four solo violins, but without any accompaniment. Perhaps they were intended as practice pieces for violin students or the violinists of the court chapels. Here is an arrangement for clarinets or bassoons, transposed to B-flat major. Thus, mixed or choral instrumentation is also possible.

Level: medium

Robert Schumanns congenial song cycle after poems of Joseph v Eichendorff gets in this version for clarinet or viola and string orchestra absolutely new sound aspects. You will be surprised!

7. "Auf einer Burg,  8. In der Fremde (2:22), 9. Wehmut (3:34), 10. Zwielicht (5:26), 11. Im Walde (8:19), 12. Frühlingsnacht (9:25)
 

Transcription of six songs by Johannes Brahms. Level: medium.(clarinet & piano)

Transcription following the composition Solveigs song by Edvard Grieg. Level: medium.(clarinet & piano)

Transcription following the song "Ridente la calma" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, KV 152. Level: medium.(clarinet & piano)

Transcription following the song "Un moto di gioja" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, KV 579. Level: medium.(clarinet & piano)

Transcription following the song "Feldeinsamkeit" by Johannes Brahms op. 86,2. Level: medium.(clarinet & piano)