Editions and Publications

Our editions and publications focus on reviving long out-of-print classical and romantic piano and chamber music, especially piano music for children.
Each publication is carefully prepared, both for clarity and for faithfulness to original editions. They are then computer-engraved and laid out according to the highest industry standards. Our current production entails limited runs on heavyweight, pale ivory ("natural" hue) paper, that are then comb-bound with attractive index-stock covers.
Piano Solo
Piano Duet
String Trio
E-flat Clarinet

Reinecke, Carl:
Fairy Tale Portraits op. 147 for piano solo (1878)
Edited and published by Michael and Edith Kimbell.

One of the great classics of piano literature for children, newly-edited and completely re-typeset. These 16 short pieces (upper intermediate level) will delight musicans and audiences young and old! They include a Prologue, Cinderella, Pixies, Good Fairy, Turnip Counter, Snow White, The Rye Spectre, The Prince, Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding Hood, The Seven Dwarfs, Wicked Fairy, Melusine, Undine, and Regentrude. Based on the original 1878 edition, this new edition includes a preface and synopses of the lesser-known stories.

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Piano Duets from the Romantic Period
Edited by Michael and Edith Kimbell.
Published 1999 and 2000 by Robert Lienau Musikverlag, Germany
(RL 40510 and RL 40520).

An anthology of masterpieces by lesser-known composers.

Volume one includes:

Four Marches op. 2 by Wilhelm Taubert (1881-1891), Six Waltzes op. 152 by Stephen Heller (1813-1888), and Three Fantasy Pieces op. 9 by Carl Reinecke (1824-1910).

Volume two includes:

Gigue op. 29 by Woldemar Bargiel (1828-1897), Four Pieces from op. 57 by Theodor Kirchner (1823-1903), and Sonate Miniature by Carl Reinecke.
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Reinecke, Carl:
Trio for Violin, Viola and Violoncello op. 249 (1898)
Edited by Michael A. Kimbell and violinist Nandor Szederkenyi
Published 1996 by Musica Rara, France (MR2230)
30 min

Description

The String Trio op. 249 in C minor was composed not long after the Cello Sonata op. 238 (dedicated to the shades of Brahms), and like the latter suggests a deeply moving homage to Brahms. Like Beethoven’s op. 9 trios, Reinecke’s trio can almost be called a quartet without the second violin: form and texture are handled so superbly that one never feels the lack of the fourth instrument.

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“Good trios for violin, viola, and ‘cello are far too few, but Reinecke’s op. 249 is among the number. The contrapuntal and formal writing is masterly, and the quality of the music itself matches the excellence of the technique.”
--Wilhelm Altmann in Cobbet’s 1929 Cyclopedic Survey of Chamber Music.

The String Trio op. 249 in C minor was probably composed around 1898, not long after the Cello Sonata op. 238 (dedicated to the shades of Brahms), and like the latter suggests a deeply moving homage to Brahms. It is at once the culmination of the classic-romantic string trio tradition of the late 18th-early 19th century and the forerunner of the revival of the string trio in the 20th century. Like Beethoven's op. 9 trios, Reinecke's trio can almost be called a quartet without the second violin: form and texture are handled so superbly that one never feels the lack of the fourth instrument. It has been recorded by the Belcanto Strings on MDG 634 0841-2.
Currently in Preparation:

Reinecke, Carl:
Fairy-tale Portraits
(separate 4-hand version by the composer)
Edited and published by Michael and Edith Kimbell.

Reinecke, Carl:
Sonata no. 3 for Violoncello and Piano op. 238 (1897)
Edited and published by Michael and Edith Kimbell.

Reinecke, Carl:
Trio for Clarinet, Bassoon and Piano
Transcribed and adapted by Michael A. Kimbell from Three Easy Trios for Violin, Violoncello and Piano op. 159 no. 3.
Copyright © Michael & Edith Kimbell 2006. All rights reserved