Scores for Orchestra

Leopold Mozart, Vater des unerreichten Genies Wolfgang Amadeus, komponierte ebenfalls Musik, stand und steht aber verständlicherweise im Schatten seines Sohnes. Sein Trompetenkonzert ist gar zweimal ü...

Gabriel Fauré’s "Pavane" is one of his most popular compositions. What is less known, however, is that the premiere of this stylized dance in April 1888 was actually performed in this present version...

'This is the best of me', wrote Edward Elgar after the final measure of his Dream of Gerontius. Premiered in 1900, in Great Britain the work has long been a standard work in the repertoire of large or...

Of Dittersdorf's 19 surviving masses, the present work (first edition by Carus) enjoyed particular popularity during the composer's lifetime, including a performance at the imperial coronation of Fran...

The Carus program on Dresden court music continues with the first edition of one of the great masses (No. 9, D major) by Johann David Heinichen, the most important musical representative of the Saxon...

A joyful dispute of the gods' is how Johann Sebastian Bachs librettist Salomon Franck described the Birthday Cantata for the court of Saxony-Weißenfels, now generally known as the 'Hunting Cantata' BW...

If you are looking for an atmospheric and lyrical work with rewarding tasks for your choir, then Rheinberger's "Star of Bethlehem" is the right choice. In nine scenes (Expectation, The Shepherds, Appa...

Music for the ages: the coronation anthems Zadok the priest, Let thy hand be strengthened, The King shall rejoice and My heart is inditing, which Handel composed for the coronation of George II in 172...

Music for the ages: the coronation anthems Zadok the priest, Let thy hand be strengthened, The King shall rejoice and My heart is inditing, which Handel composed for the coronation of George II in 172...

Music for the ages: the coronation anthems Zadok the priest, Let thy hand be strengthened, The King shall rejoice and My heart is inditing, which Handel composed for the coronation of George II in 172...

Music for the ages: the coronation anthems Zadok the priest, Let thy hand be strengthened, The King shall rejoice and My heart is inditing, which Handel composed for the coronation of George II in 172...

Music for the ages: the coronation anthems Zadok the priest, Let thy hand be strengthened, The King shall rejoice and My heart is inditing, which Handel composed for the coronation of George II in 172...

The magnificent Largo was written for the legendary cellist Mstislav Rostropovich who gave the world premiere alongside Seiji Ozawa and the Vienna Philharmonic. This intimate work has been highly accl...

The work is a dialogue in multiple levels: The solo cellist performs with the orchestral cello section, and soloist and cello section both enter into dialogue with the whole orchestra. The concerto re...

Up until now the trumpet has not played a hugely significant role in Krzysztof Penderecki’s oeuvre. Alongside cadences for Joseph Haydn’s concerto in E flat major, he has assigned substantial solos to...

For me, the viola has always been first and foremost an extraordinary vocal instrument. For me as a musician, playing chamber music with the viola is one of the most beautiful things in the world. Sto...

Pēteris Vasks composed his Oboe Concerto in commemoration of the centenary of Latvian independence, and so the work became a hymn to his native country, its nature and its people, while simultaneously...

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...

Mendelssohn's Double Concerto in D minor is by now no rare guest on concert programs. A new feature of this publication within the 'Leipzig Edition of the Works of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy' is the...

Leipzig Edition of the Works of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Series II (Concertos and Concert Pieces) Volume 3 A complete edition volume of high repertoire value With the 2nd Piano Concerto in D minor...

Leipzig Edition of the Works of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Series I (Orchestral Works) Volume 5

Sibelius' 3rd in the 'last hand version' If Jean Sibelius really called his 3rd Symphony the 'most unfortunate child', was he perhaps thinking not only of the hesitant reception but also of the diffic...