Urtext Edition

Discover a masterful work of chamber music with the Sonata in F major, Op. 8 for violin and piano. This expressive piece captivates with a lively, balanced dialogue between both instruments, melodic f...

Encouraged by Muzio Clementi, the head of a distinguished publishing house in London, Beethoven transformed his Violin Concerto into a Piano Concerto, but retained the cadenzas to the first and third...

Bach's six violin soli have come down to us in a particularly beautiful fair copy made by the composer himself. They, along with the six cello suites, are regarded as musical and technical milestones...

Three violin concertos by Joseph Haydn survive, of which the ones in C major and A major were written at the court of Prince Esterhazy. The violin concerto in G major Hob. Vll:4 was probably composed...

The violin part was edited by Wolf-Dieter Seiffert, who published further Urtext editions by Mozart with Henle Verlag (including the complete sonatas for piano and violin, HN77, 78, 79, 80). The caden...

First came Johann Sebastian Bach's sonatas and partitas, then Nicolò Paganini's caprices. Now, with the op. 27 sonatas of Eugène Ysaye, the key works in the repertoire for unaccompanied violin are ava...

In 1985 Christoph Wolff, working at Yale University, discovered a collection of 82 chorales compiled by Johann Gottfried Neumeister (1756-1840) which contained 38 compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach...

Pure source edition (no mixing of different traditions)With texts on sources, organs, chronology, use of keys, liturgical classification as well as detailed individual notes, incl. music examplesGood...

The search for unknown works by Johann Sebastian Bach has a long tradition, which began as early as the 19th century with enthusiastic Bachians such as Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. When two previously...

Experience the sun-drenched vitality and brilliance of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's Symphony No. 4 in A major, Op. 90, the celebrated 'Italian' (1833/1834). From its exhilarating, fiery opening measu...

Froberger may no longer be considered the progenitor of the piano suite, but his suites for keyboard instruments have, without a doubt, had a considerable influence on the development of this genre. H...

Along with Robert Schumann's identically titled op. 73, the Fantasiestücke of 1864 by the Danish composer Niels Wilhelm Gade are an essential part of the repertoire of all clarinettists. Gade lived in...

This standard work of the cello literature has been extracted from volume II of the Complete Works for Violoncello and Pianoforte (BA9096 and BA9097) which was published in 2016. Mendelssohn scholar R...

Handel's flute sonatas have been favourites among ?autists for 270 years. Our earlier urtext edition, published in 1955, was largely based on Chrysander's 1858 print. This new edition draws on all ava...

> A pioneering Urtext edition > With an extensive Performance Practice Commentary > For further information on Romantic performance practice we recommend the text booklet: 'Performance Practices in Jo...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's late Viennese violin sonatas represent an undisputed pinnacle of the classical chamber music repertoire. In these masterworks—KV 454, KV 481, KV 526, and KV 547—the violin an...

Immerse yourself in the heartfelt romanticism of Frédéric Chopin's renowned Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21. This masterpiece captivates with breathtaking melancholy, virtuosic brilliance, and...

Hummels 'Potpourri' for Viola and Orchestra op. 94 is part of every viola player's core re­pertoire, especially in its shortened version, the 'Fantasy'. Sprinkled with quotes from operas by Mozart and...

Edward Elgar's concerto for violoncello, his last major work, is a cleanly structured and emotionally charged composition. It is no wonder that this work is of central importance in the cello literatu...

Aside from his popular Violin Concerto no. 1, 'Kol Nidrei' numbers among Max Bruch's most famous compositions. The melancholy 'Adagio after Hebrew melodies' was written in 1880 for the cellist Robert...

> Bärenreiter Urtext edition by Federico Maria Sardelli > Preface (German/English) and Critical Report (English) > Inspiring information on historical performance practice It was in 1990 - more than 2...

Mozart's celebrated Concerto in C major, K. 299 (297c) for Flute, Harp and Orchestra is widely regarded as one of the most enchanting masterpieces in the classical concerto repertoire. The sparkling d...

Two of Joseph Haydn's three concertos for horn and orchestra have been lost, while two further horn concertos have often been mistakenly ascribed to him. Haydn's sole surviving horn concerto, whose au...

There are many composers of whom it is said today that they had gone back in time or had composed against contemporary taste. Today, the question arises, though, as to what of value is to be extracted...

'Oboe Concerto 1945, inspired by an American soldier, (oboist from Chicago)' - was what Richard Strauss noted down. And the oboist and soldier with the American occupation John de Lancie had indeed as...