Of all his symphonies, Mahler gave the Fourth, his favorite and problem child, his most particular attention. 'The Heavenly Life,' a humoresque composed in 1892 for soprano and piano, which he already...
Erstmals vollständig: Mozarts 'nulltes' HornkonzertAls 1988 zum bekannten Rondo KV 371 zwei Blätter mit 60 zusätzlichen Takten auftauchten, war das eine sensationelle Entdeckung.
Das zweisätzige, in unvollständiger Form überlieferte Hornkonzert D-dur KV 412 galt lange als Mozarts erstes Hornkonzert, es ist jedoch sein letztes, entstanden zwischen März und Dezember 1791. Im Aut...
For the 'Fidelio' overture, composed at lightning speed in 1814, a copy of the score in the Austrian National Library today provides a reliable basis for a new text-critical edition.
Urtext-Neuland: Die Ouvertüre Leonore Nr. 3 To this day, the two central Fidelio overtures are performed from musical texts that date back to the inaccurate and erroneous first printings of the parts....
The first textcritical edition of Mahler's most extensive work is a further milestone in the project, 'Mahler - The Symphonies.' The many sources first consulted here for an edition include, among oth...
Mir war das Stück gerade besonders ans Herz gewachsen, obwohl es schwerlich für das sogenannte Publikum was ist; aber mir war's lieb ... schrieb Mendelssohn über seine Vertonung des 114. Psalms.
The Song of the Earth, composed in the summer of 1908, is Mahler's best-known and most personal work. Reflecting drastic changes in his life, its immense emotional density is very moving. Until the ve...
