Urtext Edition

Richer than ever - Rameau's "Zoroastre" in the 1756 version Rameau's revised version of his opera "Zoroastre", which was performed and heard at the Académie royale de musique between January 20, 1756...

Rameau's ballet opera "Zéphire" is based on the legend of Zephire and Flora, as immortalized by Ovid in the fifth book of his "Fasti". Zéphire, the god of the west wind, loves Chloris, a wood nymph of...

This volume contains 46 previously unknown songs by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Settings of poems by Scott/Storck , Matthisson , Hölty, Heine, Gellert and others await discovery. From the " Lied zum...

Volume 9 of the new Urtext edition of Schubert's lieder contains lieder composed during the spring and summer of 1816, some of which follow upon series started in 1815. They are available in separate...

High voice

Walther Dürr, one of the most distinguished Schubert scholars, now presents the second volume of the Bärenreiter Urtext edition in high, middle and low register. This makes 46 more of Schubert's songs...

Volume 9 of the new Urtext edition of Schubert's lieder contains lieder composed during the spring and summer of 1816, some of which follow upon series started in 1815. They are available in separate...

In spring 1827 Schubert performed the first part of his best-known song cycle ‘ Winterreise ' for his friends for the first time. At this time he assumed that he had set all the texts belonging to the...

Walther Dürr, one of the best-known Schubert scholars, now presents the fourth volume in high, middle and low register as a continuation of the new Urtext edition of Schubert's songs. On the one hand,...

Karg-Elert's organ, harmonium and piano music has been systematically rediscovered since the 1970s, but his song works were initially ignored. Wrongly so, as his 200 or so solo songs are high-ranking...

Under the strong impression of his love for one of the daughters of the Cermák family, probably the older one, Josefina, the barely 24-year-old Dvorák wrote his first song cycle "Cypresses" in July 18...

The magic of Fauré's works written for church music contexts is unique. The motets and chants written for the special features of the Madeleine choir organ have the particular colourfulness of a float...

The magic of Fauré's works written for church music contexts is unique. The motets and chants written for the special features of the Madeleine choir organ have the particular colourfulness of a float...

Haydn probably wrote his short mass in 1775 for the Order of the Brothers of Mercy in the Eisenstadt monastery. The work owes its nickname 'Little Organ Mass' to the Benedictus with its organ solo. Th...

Urtext of the New Bach Edition - Cantata for Easter Sunday. Soprano solo, Alto solo, Tenor solo, Bass solo, Mixed choir-SATB; Trumpet/ Cornetto/ Zinc, Trombone (3), Strings, Basso continuo - Piano red...

Alt solo, Tenor solo, Bass solo, Gemischter Chor-SATB, Oboe, Fagott, Klarinette in b, Streicher, Basso continuo. Klavierauszug; Urtextausgabe

The cantata "Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis" was composed around 1713 and was probably performed by the composer for the first time in the same year at the Liebfrauenkirche in Halle. It was probably not a...

The cantata Jesu, der du meine Seele belongs to the famous series of choral cantatas that Bach composed in his second year in Leipzig. It was probably performed for the first time in one of Leipzig's...

No original sources have survived for Bach's great Reformation cantata "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott". It is possible that the original version of the cantata was composed in Weimar in 1715, which Ba...

As neither original sources nor documents relating to the first performance of the present funeral cantata Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit BWV 106 have survived, we cannot prove the year of compos...

Bach's cantata, "Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir", composed on September 29, 1724, belongs to the group of choral cantatas which, like perhaps the respective preacher, interpret the ideas of the readin...

The origins of the cantata Lobe den Herrn meine Seele BWV 143 are largely unknown. For a long time, a copy from the 19th century was considered the only source. This was also the basis for the musical...

Cantata for the Feast of the Visitation, after the Urtext of the New Bach Edition. Soprano solo, Alto solo, Tenor solo, Bass solo, Mixed choir, Oboe (2), Oboe d'amore, Oboe-dacc (2), Bassoon, Trumpet,...

To celebrate the Peace Treaty of Utrecht, which ended the War of the Spanish Succession in 1713, the "Utrecht Jubilate" was composed in the same year, shortly after Handel had composed the "Te Deum"....