Jonathan Del Mar

After years of several personal and creative crises, the last two years of Beethoven's life were marked by an irrepressible creative urge that was directed almost exclusively towards the string quarte...

Immerse yourself in the fascinating sound world of chamber music with the masterly String Quartets Op. 47 and Op. 95. This high-quality Urtext edition published by the renowned Bärenreiter Verlag prov...

The Concerto in B minor, Op. 104 for Violoncello and Orchestra is undoubtedly one of the crowning achievements of Romantic concerto repertoire. With its extraordinary emotional depth, lush melodies, a...

Carl Maria von Weber's fame rests mainly on 'Der Freischütz'. The unprecedented success of this opera overshadowed all his other works and contributed to their increasing fall into oblivion. Certain w...

After Antonín Dvorák had spent a successful time in Vienna in the summer of 1879, during which he deepened his acquaintance with Johannes Brahms and the conductor Hans Richter and heard the Vienna Phi...

Beethoven's Sonata in C minor, his first great sonata and exemplary for the type of characteristic sonata of the late 18th century, has lost none of its fascination to this day due to its passionate p...

The Sonata in F minor op. 57 (1804/05) was not given the nickname "Appassionata" until 1838, long after Beethoven's death. Jonathan Del Mar now offers an Urtext edition whose principles are revealed i...

With the two sonatas of his Opus 27, Beethoven broke new formal ground at the beginning of the 19th century. Each named Sonata quasi una Fantasia, the second in particular became immortal under its la...

With the two sonatas of his Opus 27, Beethoven broke new formal ground at the beginning of the 19th century. Each named Sonata quasi una Fantasia, the second in particular became immortal under its la...

Beethoven's last three piano sonatas have always exerted a great fascination. With the Sonata op. 109, composed in 1820, Beethoven opens the door to the future - through the highest expressivity, the...

The two sonatas op. 14, written in the immediate vicinity of the "Pathétique", Beethoven's great C minor sonata op. 13 (BA 10851), are among the composer's easiest sonatas and are an indispensable par...

Composed in 1803/04, Beethoven's Sonata in C major op. 53 marks his move towards a large-scale, symphonic piano movement. The highly virtuosic work, which Beethoven dedicated to his friend and patron...

The three popular sonatas op. 10 were composed between the end of 1795 and the beginning of 1798, only a short time after Beethoven's first complete sonata oeuvre op. 2. They were heralded in the pres...

There is hardly a piano pupil who would not have played Beethoven's two sonatas op. 49, both of which are described as "Sonate facile", in his early years. The works are not only technically easy, but...

Bärenreiter führt die Urtext-Edition von Beethovens sämtlichen Klaviersonaten mit einem weiteren wichtigen Beitrag fort. Die viel gespielten Sonaten op. 2 Nr. 1, 2 und 3 entstanden in der Zeit, als de...

The much-performed sonatas op. 2 nos. 1, 2 and 3 were written at the time when the young composer was taking lessons from Joseph Haydn in Vienna and are dedicated to him. After the three youthful sona...

Beethoven composed the works known as the "Elector Sonatas" in 1783 as a pupil of Christian Gottlob Neefe in Bonn. "He would certainly become a second Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart if he progressed as he ha...

The Sonata in F major op. 54, written in 1804 immediately after the highly virtuoso "Waldstein" Sonata, is still unjustly overshadowed by its predecessor and the subsequent "Appassionata" in F minor o...

It is hard to imagine that this very lyrical and moderately difficult piano sonata in the unusual key of F sharp major was preceded by the highly dramatic Sonata in f op. 57 ("Appassionata", BA 10852)...

Composed in 1809-10, Beethoven's Sonata op. 81a expresses his very personal feelings. He titled its three movements 'Das Lebewohl' (The Farewell), 'Die Abwesenheit' (The Absence) and 'Das Wiedersehn'...

Beethoven incorporated very personal impressions into his Sonata op. 81a, composed in 1809/10, with the movement titles "Das Lebewohl", "Die Abwesenheit" and "Das Wiedersehn". The compositional trigge...