Classical Instrumental Works for Orchestra

Sibelius on the organ today? - More than ever! A look at the history of transcriptions of the famous 'Karelia Suite' reveals something astonishing: when Herbert A. Fricker selected orchestral movement...

CD New Zealand Symphony Orchestr, cond. James Sedares KOCH 3-7191-2H1

With his Serenade No. 1 in D major, Op. 11, Johannes Brahms created a brilliant early masterpiece brimming with youthful freshness, pastoral charm, and symphonic vigor. This six-movement work reflects...

Immerse yourself in the warm, chamber-music-like soundscape of Johannes Brahms’ Serenade No. 2 in A major, Op. 16. This masterful early work captivates with its extraordinary orchestration: by intenti...

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CD City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra cond. Sakari Oramo ERATO 8573 85822-2 London Symphony Orchestra cond. Sir Colin Davis BMG 7321 68945 2 Masayo Matsuo Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra cond. Neeme...

Premiere Saarbrücken (Musik im 20. Jahrhundert), May 30, 1976UA of the version with reduced strings Berlin, Konzerthaus January 24, 2006, Ensemble Modern Orchestra (EMO)

The 'Valse triste' originates from a multi-movement incidental music that Sibelius put together in 1903. Detached from this functional framework, the concert version of the 'Valse triste', composed sh...

Breitkopf Urtext after the Brahms Complete Edition of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna

Lachenmann's compositional 'commentary' on Beethoven's 9th Symphony quickly became known even as it was being written: In 1985, the symphony orchestra of the Südwestfunk refused to play the commission...

Where else than in the land of 1000 lakes could a symphonic work be created, which has the world current Okeanos and its 4000 daughters (Okeanides) as its theme?

The search for an authoritative musical text led Christian Rudolf Riedel, among others, to the 'New World', specifically to the archives of the New York Philharmonic ...

A text-critical edition 'according to the sources' of the work first published by Breitkopf & Härtel in 1885.

Franz Schubert composed the two movements of the 'Unfinished' in October 1822 and, with the torso, puzzled posterity, which only became aware of the existence of this masterpiece simultaneously in 186...

Franz Schubert's Symphony No. 8 in C major, D 944 – famously known as the "Great C Major Symphony" – stands among the most breathtaking masterpieces of the orchestral repertoire. Renowned for its boun...

Schumann, The Symhonies 5 study scores in slipcase

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....

For the 'Fidelio' overture, composed at lightning speed in 1814, a copy of the score in the Austrian National Library today provides a reliable basis for a new text-critical edition.

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 56 (MWV N 18)—world-famous under the moniker "Scottish", which the composer himself never officially used—stands as one of the most brillia...

Experience the awakening of spring in all its orchestral splendour: Robert Schumann's Symphony No. 1 in B-flat major, Op. 38, affectionately known as the "Spring Symphony", bursts with youthful vitali...