Urtext Edition

New Urtext Edition

New Urtext Edition

Now available in octavo format too! Based on the new edition as part of Wagner's Complete Edition, the first critical edition of the score, Die Walküre, like Rheingold and Götterdämmerung, is now also...

'Siegfried', the third part of Wagner's Ring des 'Nibelungen, is now available. Framed by the much darker operas 'Die Walküre' and 'Götterdämmerung', 'Siegfried' acts as their bright counterpart. Its...

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With the 'Concerto for Orchestra,' Henle inaugurates a series of affordable study scores based on the text of the Bartók Complete Edition. When Bartók received the commission to compose this piece fro...

We know very little about Mozart’s Divertimento in D major K. 334, which is still popular today: an autograph has not been preserved, and in the two editions published after Mozart’s death there are i...

Shortly after a rather unsuccessful performance of his Piano Concerto no. 1, Johannes Brahms wrote to Joseph Joachim in 1859: '... a second one will sound different'. Nevertheless, a good 20 years ela...

Composed at the end of 1785, Mozart's Piano Concerto in E-flat major forms a group of three with the two famous concerti in A major K. 488 and in C minor K. 491, which he completed in March of the fol...

'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...

With his first horn concerto, the merely eighteen-year-old Richard Strauss succeeded in producing a captivating masterstroke. To this day, the concerto is beloved throughout the world (not only) by ho...

Bach's harpsichord concerti, extremely popular among pianists, are presumably reworkings of pieces originally written for the violin. Bach, however, succeeded in transferring the diverse idiosyncrasie...

It is almost impossible to tell from listening to them that Bach's extremely popular concerti for harpsichord were probably his own transcriptions of solo concerti which had originally been composed f...

Bach's harpsichord concertos have proven extremely popular, though several were originally written as concertos for another solo instrument - either violin or a woodwind instrument. But we know nothin...

Thanks to its skilful combination of Romantic melody and sparkling virtuosity, Koussevitzky's Double Bass Concerto op. 3 has been one of the most popular works of its genre since its Moscow premiere i...

The Concerto in Bb major K. 595 is not only Mozart's very last in the series of very important works for piano and orchestra. It is generally regarded as his most mature, perhaps even his most beautif...

Brahms composed his Triumphlied for eight-part chorus, solo baritone and orchestra as a direct reaction to the victory of the German army in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 and the consequent found...

When Beethoven received a commission from Vienna's Burgtheater to compose stage music for Goethe's tragedy Egmont in 1809, he viewed it as a great honour. The impetus would have been all the stronger...

This slipcase contains all of Joseph Haydn's famous symphonies from his mature creative period: the six 'Paris' Symphonies (Hob. I:82-87), the twelve 'London' (Hob. I:93-104) as well as five symphonie...

Haydn probably composed his Symphony no. 88 in G major in 1787, just one year after the six so-called Paris symphonies. It was written, together with its sister work, the F-major Symphony no. 89, for...

According to his dating of the autograph, Haydn composed the Symphony no. 89 in F major in 1787, just one year after the six so-called Paris symphonies. It was written, together with its sister work,...

Haydn's three Symphonies nos. 90-92 might rightly be dubbed his 'Paris Symphonies Part II', as they were commissioned in 1788/89, likewise by the Société Olympique, for which Haydn had already compose...

Haydn's three Symphonies nos. 90-92 might rightly be dubbed his 'Paris Symphonies Part II', as they were commissioned in 1788/89, likewise by the Société Olympique, for which Haydn had already compose...

The twelve 'London Symphonies' comprise the sublime final statement of Haydn's symphonic œuvre. They were written for the London impresario Johann Peter Salomon, and Haydn himself conducted their prem...

The twelve 'London Symphonies' comprise the sublime final statement of Haydn's symphonic œuvre. They were written for the London impresario Johann Peter Salomon, and Haydn himself conducted their prem...