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Premiere Frankfurt, November 24, 1991

Premiere Winterthur, September 30, 2000 CD Gustav Rivinius (violoncello), Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, cond. Hans Zender CD Dialoge ('Allianz Kulturstiftung')

With the 5 study scores 'Schumann: Complete Symphonies' a large edition project comes to an end. The slipcase contains the new editions (1993-2001) of the four symphonies according to the last hand ve...

After Schumann, now Brahms: the symphonies in a slipcase The score of the edition Johannes Brahms - Sämtliche Werke is still authoritative today - especially since the most important orchestral, piano...

Antonín Dvořák’s Stabat Mater, Op. 58 is widely regarded as one of the most moving and profound masterpieces in the history of sacred music. Breitkopf & Härtel presents this monumental work for solois...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Symphony in D major, K. 504—the celebrated "Prague" Symphony—is widely regarded as one of the boldest and most mature orchestral masterworks of the Classical era. Dispensing...

The premiere of 'Luonnotar' took place on September 10, 1913 at the Shire Hall in Gloucester. Luonnotar' is not only Sibelius' most important work for Ackté, it is one of his most important works ever...

Russian music researcher Polina Vajdman has gone back to all relevant sources in her editing.

Immerse yourself in the mesmerizing sonic world of French Impressionism: With "La Mer (Trois Esquisses Symphoniques)", Claude Debussy created one of the most significant and vividly colored orchestral...

Urtext nach der Leipziger Mendelssohn-Gesamtausgabe 28' The land of artists is Germany after all, Mendelssohn wrote in 1831 of his trip from Italy, but here 'is the land of art', and so the 22-year-ol...

Jean-François Monnard’s Urtext edition is the first edition of La Valse that compares all relevant sources. The first edition of the score, published in 1921, was used as the source. Errors and incons...

In the preface, Monnard illuminates Ravel's sound aesthetic against the background of concert reception and historical recordings. In addition, the editor offers insights into Ravel's ideas about temp...

Urtext despite carelessly notated autograph Mozart's late Symphony in E-flat major was composed in 1788, presumably for Academy concerts that did not materialize. The new edition is based on the only...

A 'firework' in Urtext After 'Boléro' and 'La Valse', a third, much-performed work by Ravel is included in the Breitkopf orchestral program - and this, of course, in a 'Breitkopf Urtext' edition, agai...

That Schumann truly dug his heels into symphonic creation becomes clear at the latest when we look not only at his four well-known symphonies, but also at the works between the genres, such as the Ove...

The question 'Why add music to such perfect poetry?' preoccupied Schumann long and intensively. His first compositional approach to Goethes 'Faust' began in 1844, but it was not until 1851 that he fin...

Schumann had already worked on Byron's Manfred as a law student, and the topic fascinated him from that time on. Perhaps he discovered a spiritual affinity to himself in the romantic hero's inner conf...

The Overture to Hermann and Dorothea is the only compositional result that Schumann reaped from Goethes epic poem. He had originally planned an entire opera, then a Singspiel, and finally an oratorio....

Robert Schumann placed great importance on the genre of the 'overture,' as can be seen in the chronology of the genesis of his sole opera Genoveva. In his 'Haushaltbuch' the composer entered as his fi...

The piece is a masterful example of program music that seemingly casually interweaves two Russian folk songs, a liturgical melody of the Russian Orthodox Church and two national anthems, the Marseilla...

Like Hamlet Overture, originating at about the same time, Tchaikovsky's 5th symphony, composed in 1888, focuses on the human existential question: To be or not to be - triumph over fate or triumph of...

Who would have thought that there were still over 20 minutes of superb orchestral music by Sibelius to be discovered? It was indeed a minor sensation when conductor Osmo Vänskä introduced curious list...

Awarded the German Music Edition Prize 2016 Composed early, orchestrated late The cycle Seven Early Songs, based on texts by Lenau, Rilke, Storm and other poets, was compiled in 1928, more than twenty...

In his homage Le Tombeau de Couperin, Ravel is less specifically interested in Couperin than in French music of the late 18th century. In his preface, editor Jean-Francois Monnard explains how Ravel p...

Über den Kompositionsprozess von Lemminkäinen ist wenig bekannt und die Aufführungs- und Veröffentlichungsgeschichte ist ziemlich komplex. Eine vollständige Veröffentlichung aller vier Sätze als Suite...