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Little is known about the actual composition process of Lemminkäinen, and the performance and publication history is rather complex, resulting in a first complete printing of all four movements en sui...

The symphonic poem Tapiola is the final major composition for orchestra that Sibelius was able to complete and publish. In January 1926 he had accepted the commission from the conductor Walter Damrosc...

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy composed his Reformation Symphony for the celebrations marking the 300th anniversary of the 'Confessio Augustana,” the Protestant declaration of faith. Owing to various and...

For the Urtext edition of the three great Mozart Violin Concertos K. 216, 218 and 219, three high-caliber experts came together: Mozart scholar Cliff Eisen as editor, internationally renowned concertm...

For the Urtext edition of the three great Mozart Violin Concertos K. 216, 218 and 219, three high-caliber experts came together: Mozart scholar Cliff Eisen as editor, internationally renowned concertm...

For the Urtext edition of the three great Mozart Violin Concertos K. 216, 218 and 219, three high-caliber experts came together: Mozart scholar Cliff Eisen as editor, internationally renowned concertm...

Mozart wrote the Vesperae de Dominica in Salzburg in 1779, the same year as the Coronation Mass - a work, which the composer himself held in high esteem. It was no doubt this work that Mozart presente...

Mendelssohns Double Concerto in D minor is no longer an unfamiliar title on our concert programs. It takes on a new guise, however, in this volume of the Leipziger Ausgabe der Werke von Felix Mendelss...

Ravels brilliant compositional interpretation of the Pictures at an Exhibition is, to this day, the most famous and independent orchestration of Mussorgskys masterpiece. When the French composer turne...

Ravel needed only two weeks of intensive concentration to orchestrate his piano suite Valses nobles et sentimentales, which was given its premiere performance in March 1911. Consisting of seven waltze...

With the Symphony K. 112 Cliff Eisen, professor at the renowned King's College and one of the leading Mozart specialists of the younger generation, continues the new editions of Mozart's orchestral wo...

Im Herbst 1909 schrieb Sibelius in sein Tagebuch: "Am Koli! Eines der größten Erlebnisse meines Lebens. Pläne [für] "La Montagne"! Es stellte sich heraus, dass es sich dabei um Pläne für die Vierte Sy...

In the fall of 1909 Sibelius wrote in his diary: “At Koli! One of the greatest impressions in my life. Plans [for] ‘La Montagne’!” These plans proved to be for the Fourth Symphony. The composition pro...

Mit dem Violinkonzert e-moll op. 64 MWV O 14, seinem letzten Solokonzert, schuf Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy ein Standardwerk der Violinliteratur, das heute im Konzertrepertoire fest etabliert ist. Als...

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy created a standard work with his final violin concerto in E minor op. 64 MWV O 14 that is now firmly established in today’s concert repertoire. When in 1838 the composer in...

More than my earlier works, this one is interspersed with metrically bound rhythms and musicianly characters that constantly recrystallize and drift towards or away from familiar situations. The famil...

Schumann’s close collaboration with the David quartet, together with the valuable advice of his friend Mendelssohn Bartholdy, led the composer to make extensive changes to the Streichquartette op. 41...

Experience the captivating world of chamber music with the "String Quartet No. 2 in D Major." This masterful composition unfolds the full sonic richness of the classic ensemble of two violins, viola,...

Experience a masterful milestone of chamber music: Johannes Brahms' String Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 51/1, captivates with its dramatic expressive power, passionate depth, and masterful contrapunt...