The Sonata in B minor op. 58 (1844) is Chopin's third and most important contribution to this genre. By fundamentally reassessing the sources, the editors have arrived at a revised reading of the work. It is based on the version of the French ...

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

W. A. Mozart once praised the sonatas for piano and harpsichord by Josef Myslivecek (1737–1781) in a letter to his father; he not only played them himself, but also recommended that his sister learn them by heart. The collection of six already ...

Robert Schumann’s Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra is the first major Romantic work of this genre not to have been composed by a cellist. Nevertheless, Schumann, who worked on this late composition for several years, consulted the cellist ...

Robert Schumann’s Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra is the first major Romantic work of this genre not to have been composed by a cellist. Nevertheless, Schumann, who worked on this late composition for several years, consulted the cellist ...

While preparing his Violoncello Concerto for the publisher Breitkopf & Härtel, Robert Schumann had the idea of arranging the concerto for solo cello and string quartet, in the tradition of arrangements of piano concertos for solo instrument ...

Dieses Buch von Laurenz Lütteken bietet eine Reihe von pointierten Essays, die sich an ein musikinteressiertes Publikum richten. Es lädt ein zu Erkundungen und Reflexionen über den unendlichen Gegenstand der Musik vom späten ...

Sergei Rachmaninoff’s chamber music for violoncello and piano comprises three works, all of which originate from his early compositional period and whose genesis is closely linked to people in his circle at the time.

Seventeen-year-old ...

The Fantasia in F minor op. 103 - D 940 which was completed in April 1828, the last year of Schubert's life, was followed in May by the equally popular Allegro in A minor op. post. 144 - D 947 and in June by the Rondo in A major op. 107 - D ...

Sergei Rachmaninoff’s chamber music for violoncello and piano comprises three works, all of which originate from his early compositional period and whose genesis is closely linked to people in his circle at the time.

Seventeen-year-old ...

The Fantasia in F minor op. 103 - D 940 which was completed in April 1828, the last year of Schubert's life, was followed in May by the equally popular Allegro in A minor op. post. 144 - D 947 and in June by the Rondo in A major op. 107 - D ...

Beethoven was almost thirty years old when he ventured to compose a string quartet for the first time. Could he have been intimidated by the influential models of this young genre of Haydn and Mozart? When Beethoven completed his six string ...

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 ...

Andreas 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 ...