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Following the first two volumes of the pioneering new edition, Bärenreiter now presents Couperin's 'Troisième livre' of the 'Pièces de clavecin' (1722) edited by Denis Herlin. In addition to the six '...

Bohuslav Martinu composed his last stage work of the pre-war period, "Alexandre bis", in 1937 for the World Exhibition in Paris of the same year. The libretto for this chamber opera buffa for five peo...

The premiere of Pietro Mascagni's "Cavalleria rusticana" in May 1890 is a milestone in the history of opera. It was a huge success, considered the beginning of verismo in opera and was praised for rev...

Zweifellos ist 'Samson et Dalila' heute die bekannteste der dreizehn Opern von Camille Saint-Saëns, die wie wenige Stücke des französischen 19. Jahrhunderts im Repertoire der internationalen Bühnen pr...

Fauré's '13 Barcarolles', composed over a period of almost four decades (1882-1921), are highly representative of his piano oeuvre and are considered his most characteristic works. They reflect his mo...

Bach's 'Goldberg Variations' remain a fundamental challenge for every harpsichordist and pianist to this day. The fact that Bach intended the work to be performed on a two-manual harpsichord poses a p...

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...

Schubert composed his great A major Sonata a few months before his early death in 1828. With its balance of lyrical melody, intimate feeling and pianistic brilliance, not least thanks to its poetic "A...

As early evidence of Schubert's preoccupation with early music, his Fantasy in C D 2 E from 1811 contains echoes of Mozart's C minor Fantasy, while the virtuoso Graz Fantasy in C D 605 A, probably com...

Schubert's great C minor Sonata D 958 was composed in 1828, a few months before his death, at the same time as the late sonatas in A D 959 and in B flat D 960. The three works, conceived by Schubert a...

Die berühmteste der Fantasien, die 'Wandererfantasie', erscheint auch als Einzelausgabe. Als Schubert selbst einmal die Wandererfantasie im Freundeskreis spielte und dabei ins Stocken geriet, rief er...

The most famous of the fantasies, the Wanderer Fantasy, is also published as a single edition. When Schubert himself once played the Wanderer Fantasy with friends and faltered, he exclaimed impatientl...

This pioneering edition of Jean Barraqué's 'Sonate pour piano' (1950-52) is the first to present this masterpiece from the heyday of serialism in a scholarly-critical Urtext edition. The new edition o...

The pioneering edition of Jean Barraqué's "Sonate pour piano" (1950-1952) is the first time that a work from the heyday of serial music has been made available in a source-critical Urtext edition. The...

Beethoven’s four-movement Sonata in A-flat major op. 26 belongs to his most popular works. It is dedicated to Prince Lichnowsky, one of his most generous patrons and the dedicatee of, for example, the...

Beethoven's four-movement Sonata in A flat major op. 26 is one of his most popular works. It is dedicated to Prince Karl von Lichnowsky, one of his most important patrons, to whom Beethoven also dedic...

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...

The Sonata op. 101 has an unusually long history of composition. Beethoven's earliest sketches date from 1815. The first edition of the "Difficult to Exegetate Sonata in A", as Beethoven called it, wa...

Due to serious illness, Beethoven was only able to begin composing the Sonata in A flat major op. 110, the second work in his late trio of sonatas, over a year after the first. The first sketches date...

Following the critically acclaimed publication of the 35 Piano Sonatas in separate editions, Bärenreiter now presents Beethoven's Complete Piano Sonatas in three volumes. This edition, which is unpara...

Following the edition of the critically acclaimed Urtext edition in individual volumes, Bärenreiter presents Beethoven's 35 piano sonatas as a three-volume complete edition. The editor of this edition...

Johann Sebastian Bach's "Goldberg Variations" BWV 988 are among the undisputed pinnacles of Baroque keyboard literature. Originally published as the "Fourth Part of the Clavier-Übung", this monumental...