Symphony Orchestra with Instrumental Solo

The Urtext edition of what is arguably the most often played double-bass work of all was long overdue. The work was previously available only in an abridged and arranged form. The edition departs from...

Just like Joseph Haydn's E flat major concerto Hob VIIe:1 (1796), Hummel's Trumpet Concerto in E major of 1803 was also written for the Viennese soloist Anton Weidinger, who performed on a keyed trump...

Neben dem Widmungsträger Pablo de Sarasate, nahmen viele namhafte Geiger wie Eugène Ysaye und später Jacques Thibaud das Konzertstück, das Camille Saint-Saëns 1863 komponiert hatte, in ihr Repertoire...

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...

The alternating judgments - 'worthless, completely unplayable' (according to Nikolai Rubinstein, to whom Tchaikovsky had actually intended his B-flat minor concerto) and 'magnificent' or 'ravishing' (...

Breitkopf Urtext after the Brahms-Gesamtausgabe of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna EB 6043 is printed in score ; for performance two copies are needed

Johannes Brahms composed the present work in the summer months of 1878 in Pörtschach am Wörthersee - originally in four movements, before he wrote self-deprecatingly to his friend Joseph Joachim: 'The...

The premiere took place on October 18, 1887, at the Gürzenich in Cologne, conducted by the composer. Parallel to the work on the orchestral score, the piano version had also been written, with which B...

The German Requiem by Johannes Brahms was composed in 1866. The first complete performance of the work took place on February 18, 1869, at the Leipzig Gewandhaus, after individual movements had been h...

Immerse yourself in the poetic soundscape of Romanticism with Frédéric Chopin's celebrated Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11. This masterpiece combines virtuosic brilliance with deeply felt emot...

Immerse yourself in the poetic sound world of High Romanticism with the Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21. This masterpiece captivates performers and listeners alike with its deeply felt lyricis...

Johannes Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major, Op. 83, is widely regarded as one of the most monumental masterpieces of the Romantic era. With its expansive four-movement architecture, it tran...

CD Peter Rejto (violoncello), Pees Hungarian Symphony, cond. Howard Williams SILKD 6011

First performance Saarbrücken (Music in the 20th Century), May 15, 1983

Premiere Cologne (Musik der Zeit), April 18, 1986 CD :Massimiliano Damerini, Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra, cond. Peter EötvösCD col legno WWE 31862

Discover the passionate expressive power and virtuosic brilliance of the Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 7. This captivating masterpiece for piano and orchestra impresses with its gripping drama, lyric...

Experience a captivating masterpiece of the repertoire with the Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 6/1 for violin and orchestra. This work delights with its radiant tonal brilliance, virtuosic solo passa...

The edition supervised by Thomas Fritzsch goes back to the only authentic source, a copy from the late 19th century - its predecessors are lost to this day .

Édouard Lalo’s masterly Symphonie espagnole Op. 21 is undeniably one of the most sparkling and beloved gems of the Romantic violin repertoire. Radiating Iberian temperament, virtuosic brilliance, and...

Long misunderstood between Beethoven and Brahms Schumann's last concertante orchestral work was first performed only in 1937 and at the same time published in an editorially inadequate edition. It was...