Gouvy, Theodore: Sonata

It does not always have to be Brahms! The edition presented here enriches Romantic literature for the clarinet rather pleasantly. As Gouvy's sonata was written 19 years prior to the two clarinet sonatas op. 120 by Brahms, it is also interesting from a music historian´s point of view: this is the very first sonata for piano and clarinet in which the virtuoso and technical possibilities of both instruments have been used in the same effective way, and they have also been interwoven quite skillfully.