Alongside the violin, the transverse flute is one of the preferred solo instruments in Johann Sebastian Bach's chamber music, even if the circumstances surrounding the composition of the individual works are not completely known. Three of the ...

Alongside the violin, the transverse flute is one of the preferred solo instruments in Johann Sebastian Bach's chamber music, even if the circumstances surrounding the composition of the individual works are not completely known. Three of the ...

Martin Warschkow hat einen der erfolgreichsten Hits der britischen Rockband Genesis, „Invisible Touch“, für gemischten Chor arrangiert. Die 1986 auf gleichnamigem Album erschienene Nummer Eins in den Charts begeistert noch heute – und ...

The richly orchestrated Missa in C minor K. 317 was probably one of the first church music works that Mozart composed at the beginning of 1779 as the newly appointed Salzburg court organist. With a large orchestra, choir and four soloists, ...

The String Quartet op. 127 marks the beginning of a series of five works in this genre, which Ludwig van Beethoven predominantly occupied himself with during the last years of his life and after several personal and creative crises. This compositional ...

Maurice Ravel broke new personal ground with his only piano trio, yet in a stroke of genius he created a work of the early 20th century that is outstanding in many respects and a key work of this genre. As one of his most rhythmically daring ...

Since the 1970s, Karg-Elert’s organ, harmonium and piano music has been systematically rediscovered, but his song compositions have not yet received the same attention. Wrongly so, for his approx. 200 solo songs are first-rate compositions, ...

This edition of Frank Martin’s mass is a scholarly-critical as well as a performing edition that takes all sources into account. As a matter of fact, it was only during the research for this edition that a previously unknown source was discovered ...

This piano sonata was still considered to be by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy when it was recorded by Éric Heidsieck in 1972. It was not until 2010, almost 200 years after its composition in 1828, that musicologist Angela Mace was able ...

Antonín Dvorák’s five-movement “Suite in A major” for piano was completed in New York on 1 March 1894, shortly after the triumphant success of his “New World” Symphony. As he himself noted in the autograph, it was the fifth piece ...

“Red roots” (2022) hints at its source material in depth – only to turn it into something independent. Starting from a Beethovenian cell (from the unpublished sketch, “Wir irren allesamt”), the focus is on leaving the point of departure, which ...

“Lauschgut” (2018/19) follows the idea of freeing the piano from its chordal tradition. Instead, the single note is fringed so far inwards that pitch and noise can meet in “fanned-out unanimity”. The piece consists of five short fragments reduced ...

More than sixty years after the publication of Jarmil Burghauser’s edition, Bärenreiter has published a new critical edition of Dvorák’s “Rusalka” (BA10438) which meets today’s editorial standards and on which this individual edition ...

For the most part, the rich piano legacy of Bedrich Smetana (1824–1884) comprises compositions that require the skills of an advanced or even professional pianist. In this album, which forms part of the popular “Easy Piano Pieces and Dances” ...

Volume 10 of the new Urtext edition of Schubert’s lieder contains works composed between September 1816 and August 1817. Above all, the collaboration with his friend, the poet Johann Mayrhofer, was decisive for Schubert’s development as a lieder ...

Schubert’s Fantasy in F minor is one of the most important compositions in the piano four-hands repertoire. Its four thematically related movements are played one after the other without interruption. The work was composed between January and ...

Volume 10 of the new Urtext edition of Schubert’s lieder contains works composed between September 1816 and August 1817. Above all, the collaboration with his friend, the poet Johann Mayrhofer, was decisive for Schubert’s development as a lieder ...

These world music pieces represent a compositional dialogue between J. S. Bach and non-European music from the Americas, Africa, the Orient, and the Balkans as well as modern music. The richness of detail, transparency and polyphonic structure ...

Ludwig van Beethoven’s two piano trios op. 70 were written during the composer’s visit to his patron Marie von Erdödy. Published in 1809, they are now among Beethoven’s most famous works of this genre, especially the “Ghost Trio” op. 70 ...

In February 1886, Camille Saint-Saëns was supposed to urgently complete his “Organ Symphony”, but instead he worked on a composition that he had been dwelling on for a long time. This was “The Carnival of the Animals” with which he wanted ...

As Mozart specialist Ulrich Konrad was able to prove in 2020, the version of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's “Masonic Funeral Music” that is widely in use today does not stem from the composer himself. Rather, it is a posthumous combination of two ...

The LIEDBasel 2020 festival commissioned Andrea Lorenzo Scartazzini to write a song cycle on the theme of "A terribly nice family". The six lyrical texts are taken from various volumes of Nora Gomringer's poetry and illuminate the ...

“Les Boréades” was actually intended to be performed at the Théâtre de Choisy in Paris in 1763 at the end of the Seven Years’ War on the occasion of the peace celebrations. However, after two rehearsals with the biggest ...

Die Singer bzw. Songwriter LOTTE und Max Giesinger, Exponenten der deutschen Popszene, veröffentlichten 2019 diesen erfolgreichen Hit, der durchaus generationsübergreifende Qualitäten hat und sich nicht nur an Jugendliche richtet. ...

Mit seinem 2021 erschienenen Soloalbum feierte Danger Dan, auch bekannt als Mitglied der deutschen Hip-Hop Crew „Antilopen Gang“, riesige Erfolge. Die Sehnsucht nach menschlicher Nähe im Angesicht unserer Endlichkeit wird in seinem Song ...

Mit dem Song „You’re the Voice“ gelang John Farnham 1986 ein Megahit, dessen Botschaft nichts an Aktualität eingebüßt hat: Jeder Mensch hat eine Stimme und kann einen Unterschied machen, wenn er sie gegen Formen der Gewalt erhebt. ...

Von allen niederdeutschen Volksliedern gilt „Dat du min Leevsten büst“ als das bekannteste. Im Chorarrangement begeben wir uns an die Seite eines jungen Paares, das sich in anfangs sehr zarten, später leidenschaftlich kraftvollen ...

Haydn composed his Symphony in F major Hob. I:67 around 1775/76, approximately ten years after his creative period began at the Esterházy Palace. At this time, the opera activities there were in a phase of development, which was accompanied ...

Since 2014, the six symphonic poems of the cycle "My Fatherland" by Bedrich Smetana have been published individually in new Urtext editions edited by Hugh Macdonald. Now all six parts of this unique work within the international symphonic ...

Since 2014, the six symphonic poems of the cycle “My Country” by Bedrich Smetana have been published individually in new Urtext editions edited by Hugh Macdonald. Now all six parts of this unique work within the international symphonic repertoire ...

Although not performed during his lifetime, Rameau’s “Les Boréades” from 1762 are his musical masterpiece and a synthesis of his compositional work. All the musical innovations to which the composer subjected the traditional genre of ...

Louis Spohr’s Fantasia op. 35 from 1807 comprises one of the standard works for solo harp repertoire today. It was composed in Gotha, where Spohr’s wife Dorette received harp lessons from the court chamber musician Johann Backofen. On the young ...

This little notebook is handsome as well as practical. The cover is in Bärenreiter‘s attractive Smetana-green and has the same layout as our Urtext editions.
The pages alternate with musical staves on the left and writing lines ...

Rameau's ballet-opera "Zéphire" is based on the legend of Zephire and Flora, as immortalized by Ovid in the fifth book of his "Fasti". Zéphire, the god of the west wind, loves Chloris, a forest nymph of the ...