In late 2010, a new recording featuring romantic chamber works for clarinet and piano was released. What adds a great deal of attention to the recording is the fact that Schumann’s manuscript, which is located in the French National Library in Paris, has been recorded on this CD, therefore making it a very rare recording of the original version of op. 73, the “Soiréestücke”, as they were authorized by the composer. At age 27, the rather underestimated composer Max Reger wrote his two sonatas for clarinet and piano op. 49 - inspired by Brahms’s eminent contribution to this genre (referring to Brahms Clarinet Sonatas op. 120). Reger’s music has more or less directly led into the Second Viennese School. In “Vier Stücke für Klarinette und Klavier” op. 5, the Viennese composer Alban Berg addressed the aphorisitic style for the first time in his career, a style which was characteristic for both his long-time teacher and colleague Arnold Schönberg and his friend Anton von Webern. His “Four Pieces” op. 5 is also included in this recording.