Romanze op. 85

Max Bruch composed in 1911 his Romance for viola and orchestra, op. 85. The piece is generally regarded as one of his most beautiful works. In op. 85 Bruch’s typical late romantic composition style is very clearly visible.

The viola and the clarinet are similar in its sound qualities as well as in its ambitious so the Romance is very good suitable as arrangement for clarinet. The present arrangement has an intermediate degree of difficulty.

The melodic as well as the dynamics and the agogic are multifaceted. So the present piece could be seen as enrichment of the ambitious clarinet repertoire.