Here are the questions we are most frequently asked ...... and our answers.

"Yet another edition of the Symphonies?"

No, the New Bärenreiter Urtext Edition is not just another edition. It has advantages over all current available editions.

• For the first time all available sources - even the most recently discovered - have been integrated in the New Bärenreiter Urtext Edition.
• For the first time all Symphonies are accompanied by complete critical commentaries which are published at the same time as the respective Symphony's performance material.
• All Nine Symphonies are edited by one editor, the internationally acclaimed musicologist Jonathan Del Mar. We guarantee a musicological standard of the highest niveau, up-to-date and consistent.

"Do I really have to buy this new material just because of a few minor changes?"

Yes, you will have to, because the changes are so far-reaching.

• The New Bärenreiter Urtext Edition contains numerous exciting and previously unheard corrections to the traditionally accepted editions.
• Compared to the older editions, the differences are often so drastic that conductors will not be able to purchase a new score and simply mark the changes in their old parts.
• The New Bärenreiter Urtext Edition is audibly different and leads to a new way of hearing and understanding the Symphonies.

"What about the fact that I don't really have a lot of spare cash?"

Yes, this may be the case, but your money is nowhere better spent than for first-class editions of repertoire works which you will definitely perform/study many times.

You do not pay for the Nine symphonies all at once; you pay for each symphony upon publication.

The New Bärenreiter Urtext Edition fills the gap; its musicological standard does not diminish its practicality as a performing edition.