Classical Instrumental Works for Orchestra

Some of the songs appeared in 1933 or 1937 in editions that are difficult to obtain today and, moreover, are not entirely reliable; in the case of Greisengesang and the first version of Ellens zweiter...

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Immerse yourself in the festive soundscape of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with the celebrated Serenade in D major, K. 203 (189b), also known as the "Colloredo Serenade." This orchestral masterpiece captiv...

The score and orchestral parts are available for purchase for the first time in a new edition of La Mer.

Marche fatale is a incautiously daring escapade that may annoy the fans of my compositions more than my earlier works, many of which have prevailed only after scandals at their world premieres. My Mar...

My own new orchestral composition has the title 'WRITING'. The practical action of writing, as a mechanical action by hand, pen, brush, on a surface (paper, parchment, stone, etc.), triggered and cont...

Urtext-Neuland: Die Ouvertüre Leonore Nr. 3 To this day, the two central Fidelio overtures are performed from musical texts that date back to the inaccurate and erroneous first printings of the parts....

... without a warm feeling of love' 'Tchaikovsky urtext' is no longer a rarity in the Breitkopf orchestral catalog. Polina Vajdman edits an extremely popular repertoire work, which the composer himsel...

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...

The cycle Seven Early Songs, based on texts by Lenau, Rilke, Storm and other poets, was compiled in 1928, more than twenty years after the individual songs were composed. Alban Berg selected seven of...

Dream Waltz 'À l'exemple de Schubert' - Ravel re-invents the waltz, inspired by Liszt, Chopin, Schumann and Chabrier, transforming the rhapsodic gyrations of the dance and sending it whirling into the...

Ravel's multi-layered Hommage in the 'Breitkopf Urtext' In his Hommage Le Tombeau de Couperin, Ravel addresses not so much Couperin himself as the French music of the 18th century. On the other hand,...

First the general news on the consistently closed group of works: with the new edition of the G minor Symphony, the three late Mozart works K. 543, 550 and 551 are now available in the Breitkopf Urtex...

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 the four movements en...

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 the four movements en...

It has aroused passionate reactions ever since its premiere. To this day, Mahler's Fifth remains hard work for performers and listeners alike, as in addition to being an (almost) unsolvable problem fo...

Tod und Verklärung marks a turning point in Richard Strauss's corpus of tone poems: Even before the November 1889 premiere of his previous work Don Juan, Strauss had finished his third work in this ge...

It has aroused passionate reactions ever since its premiere. To this day, Mahler's Fifth remains hard work for performers and listeners alike, as in addition to being an (almost) unsolvable problem fo...

Mahlers Neunte singt von Schönheit, Liebe und Vergänglichkeit. "Welt! Lebe wohl" notierte Mahler über den letzten Takten. Seine letzte vollendete Symphonie umarmt die Welt von Gestern und stößt zuglei...

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...

The famous Valse triste grew out of the incidental music to Arvid Järnefelts drama Kuolema (Death). After the first staged performances in December 1903 at the Finnish National Theater in Helsinki, Si...

Richard Strauss's last completed tone poem is regarded as the pinnacle of his art of orchestration: "Now I've finally learned to orchestrate," he himself is once supposed to have said about it after t...

From the Tang Dynasty to the present day, many artists, including BAI Xingjian (776 - 826), GUAN Hanqing (ca.1234 - 1300) and REN Tongxiang (1927 - 2002), have compared the name "A Rose" to an ordinar...