Henrik Wiese

Arranging the three gamba sonatas BWV 1027 - 1029 for flute and obbligato harpsichord or piano may at first seem rather daring. The three-octave range of the viola da gamba (B - e flat2) that Bach use...

Henrik Wiese, the internationally renowned orchestral and solo flautist, has spent four years compiling what promises to be the definitive guide to audition repertoire for students preparing for a sea...

In his exercise book Expression through Sound, Henrik Wiese introduces practising musicians to the secrets of how to change the sound of the flute in a specific way and use it to enhance musical expre...

In his autograph of this concerto Vivaldi writes 'Flautino' - which does not make it quite clear whether the work is to be played on the f-soprano (sopranino) recorder or on the piccolo transverse flu...

The Trio in G minor op. 63 for piano, flute and violoncello, published in 1820, is one of the few chamber music works by Carl Maria von Weber. In the finale one finds some echoes from Weber's probably...

Mozart's 'daily bread' for horn players in a particularly delightful Urtext edition. The fragmentary Rondo is not only offered in the well-known Süßmayr version, but also in a very stylistically confi...

The most beautiful and significant clarinet concerto in the history of music is now appearing in a Henle urtext edition. The piano reduction is accompanied by two separate parts: an urtext edition of...

In his exercise book Expression through Sound, Henrik Wiese introduces practising musicians to the secrets of how to change the sound of the flute in a specific way and use it to enhance musical expre...

With The Clarinet Audition, Henrik Wiese presents a comprehensive collection of auditions for A, Bb and C clarinet for the first time after his successful flute volumes. Based on around 150 internatio...

First Edition

Indispensable repertoire work; first critical version; two versions of the ballad included in score and piano reduction Carl Reinecke was interested in exploring music and not just "snacking" on it. I...

This duet arrangement from the late 18th and early 19th centuries of Mozart's 'Cosi fan tutte has served as a basis for modern-day editors. Whilst retaining many aspects of the original flute arrangem...

In this edition of the 'Flute Collection' Henrik Wiese, principal flutist with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, presents two works by French composer and flutist François Borne (1840-1920), arra...

Late in the evening on his name day in 1781 Mozart was on his way to bed when he suddenly heard familiar sounds coming from outside: the six musicians who had given the première of his Serenade in E-f...

What might have occasioned Mozart to rework his original Serenade for sextet into a version for octet (with two oboes) only a few months after he had completed it? Was there an 'external” cause? Once...

Reicha published a total of 24 wind quintets for the 'classical' scoring of flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon; op. 88 no. 2 is one of the best-loved and most played. 'If it were possible to surp...

A very readable foreword and extensive Critical Commentary with all necessary information enrich this Urtext edition by master Munich flautist and Mozart expert Henrik Wiese. One may learn there, for...

A genuine discovery! Written at the same time as the Magic Flute, this is Mozart's final piece of chamber music. Anyone lacking a glass harmonica should try it with a piano or a harp (it has even been...

Ever since Mozart encountered the clarinet in Mannheim in 1778 he loved the instrument's warm and expressive tone. His friendship with Anton Stadler, the clarinetist in the Royal-Imperial Court Orches...

I've had to turn out a serenade on short order': these lines from Mozart to his father offer a glimpse into the everyday life of a composer dependent on patronage. Mozart was about to be married when...

'Wind music of a very special nature on a large-scale, a composition by Hr. Mozart' - this was the way the 'Wiener Blättchen' announced the concert in the National Court Theatre, in which the clarinet...

We not only owe three of Mozart's horn concertos to his friendship with Ignaz Leutgeb; the solo part of this unusual chamber music work was also written especially for him. Instead of having two violi...

Did Mozart intend this work to be a duo for two bass instruments, or - as the simple basso-like manner of the second part suggests - a sonata for bassoon and keyboard instrument? We will probably neve...

Henrik Wiese has created a great stir in recent years with his many Mozart editions for Henle. He adheres strictly to Mozart's autograph score, allowing only a few sporadic editorial additions and dis...