Classical Instrumental Works for Orchestra

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...

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...

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...

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...

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