Scores for Orchestra

Louis Spohr's technically, extremely demanding concertos have long been part of clarinetists' standard repertoire. Like the first clarinet concerto, this second concerto was composed for the clarineti...

With the publication of the score and parts of the D major Horn Concerto K. 412/514, Mozart expert Henrik Wiese continues the orchestral edition of this important group of works begun in 2013. What wa...

Many well-known violinists such as the dedicatee Pablo de Sarasate, together later with Eugène Ysaye and Jacques Thibaud, included in their repertoires Camille Saint-Saëns' concert piece composed in 1...

Paganini’s Capricci served as inspiration for many composers. In addition to Brahms, Schumann and Liszt, Rachmaninoff was also inspired by the idea. His Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini has since becom...

Shortly after the Second World War, Richard Strauss, then 80 years old, had remained safe in his villa in Garmisch, though cultural life in Europe had come to a complete standstill. The American occup...

In his compositions, Richard Strauss demonstrates his deep understanding of the character of the Romantic horn. He achieved his greatest success in this respect with his first horn concerto, which - a...

His collection of 13 piano songs op. 34, Rachmaninov added a small final piece without any text three years later: Vocalise, which quickly became a worldwide success. Since its premiere in 1916, the m...

His collection of 13 piano songs op. 34, Rachmaninov added a small final piece without any text three years later: Vocalise, which quickly became a worldwide success. Since its premiere in 1916, the m...

The present Concertino in E-flat major, Op. 5, was composed especially for the Leipzig trombone virtuoso Carl Traugott Queisser (1800-1846), to whom the work is also dedicated. The Concertino was firs...

Something "completely new and unheard-of" would be offered to the audience, Robert Schumann wrote to Franz Liszt at the end of 1851, referring to the premiere of his "dramatic poem" Manfred. Already a...

Russian music researcher Polina Vajdman has gone back to all relevant sources in her editing.

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.

Schumann's 'Sinfonietta' in the Urtext The intensity with which Schumann dealt with the symphony is shown not only by the four known works themselves, but also by compositions that stand between the g...

On their way to Salzburg, Constanze and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart made a stopover in Linz in the fall of 1783. The stay was productive: the 13-voice, four-movement Linz Symphony was created. To compose...

1936 erhielt Béla Bartók von seinem Schweizer Mäzen Paul Sacher den Kompositionsauftrag zur "Musik für Saiteninstrumente, Schlagzeug und Celesta". Bartók gelang dabei eines der großen Meisterwerke des...

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...

Of all his symphonies, Mahler gave the Fourth, his favorite and problem child, his most particular attention. 'The Heavenly Life,' a humoresque composed in 1892 for soprano and piano, which he already...

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy created a standard work with his final violin concerto in E minor op. 64 MWV O 14 that is now firmly established in today's concert repertoire. When in 1838 the composer in...

Richard Strauss was aware (especially following the success of his 'Don Juan') of his reputation and above all of his 'value' as a composer, which led him to rewrite several of his successful works by...

Joachim Raff's Fifth Symphony "Lenore" op. 177, composed in 1872, reveals the composer as a representative of the middle ground between Neo-German aesthetics and the symphonic tradition. It owes its n...

Joachim Raff’s celebrated first cello concerto is only gradually being rediscovered today. This is astounding, taking into account both the quality of the composition as well as its enthusiastic recep...

Strauss had originally intended that Don Quixote always be performed, if possible, together with Heldenleben, “since Don Q. in particular is only fully comprehensible alongside Heldenleben.” To date,...

The six last and musically most important symphonies of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in the Breitkopf & Härtel Urtext edition. Editors Cliff Eisen and Henrik Wiese present a text-critical authentic musical...

“The Blue Danube“ is said to be Austria’s secret anthem, and alongside the “Radetzky March” it is the traditional encore piece at the annual New Year's Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. Al...