Urtext Edition

The circumstances in which these poetic 'Soirée Pieces' (thus their original title) came into being are quite surprising. In 1849 Dresden was seized by violent political turmoil that ultimately forced...

Dvořák had previously written solo music for Hanus Wihan, later the dedicatee of his cello concerto. When he was planning a trio concert tour for 1892 with Wihan and violinist Ferdinand Lachner and ne...

Music for the ages: the coronation anthems Zadok the priest, Let thy hand be strengthened, The King shall rejoice and My heart is inditing, which Handel composed for the coronation of George II in 172...

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...

Beethoven wrote ten sonatas for violin and piano during a period of only fifteen years (from 1797 to 1812). It is impressive how in this genre he again pursued the principle of finding a new model for...

Solostimme, Klavierauszug, Urtextausgabe

The two Sonatas op. 5 were written in 1796 expressly for the young Beethoven's performance with the cello virtuoso Jean Louis Duport at the Berlin court. That he wasn't eclipsed by the latter was ensu...

> 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...

The new Urtext performing editions to Mozart's violin concertos nos. 1-5 contain new easy to play piano reductions. They offer in addition to the Urtext solo violin part, an extra violin part prepared...

The piano reduction of Mozart's G major violin concerto is easier to play, uncluttered and practical with page turns where you need them and where necessary fold-out pages. The solo part gives players...

High voice

Piano reduction after the New Mozart Edition. Soprano solo, alto solo, tenor solo, bass solo, mixed choir-SATB, bassoon, trombone (3), strings, organ - piano reduction

The "Messe solennelle de Sainte Cécile", commonly known as the Cäcilienmesse, is one of Charles Gounod's most popular sacred works. First performed in 1855 in the church of St. Eustache in Paris, the...

New Urtext edition based on the 1723 autograph.

Agathe Backer Grøndahl is primarily known as an accomplished Norwegian pianist, but her brilliant compositions have received little attention to date. The Fantasy Pieces, Op. 39, contain some of her m...

Agathe Backer Grøndahl is primarily known as an accomplished Norwegian pianist, but her brilliant compositions have received little attention to date. The ‘fairytale suite‘ I Blaafjellet, Op. 44, cons...

Urtext, Neue kritische Gesamtausgabe, mit kritischem Kommentar

Like the 'Gymnopédies', the 'Gnossiennes' also allude to ancient Greek traditions. Perhaps inspired by the World Exhibition in Paris in 1889, Satie made use of oriental ornamentation. With his subtle...

As indestructible as Rachmaninoff's c-sharp-minor Prélude (HN1211) may be, it is not his only Prélude to have begun a 'solo career' of its own: with its rousing rhythms and rhapsodic middle section, t...

Schubert at the piano, with his inexhaustible wealth of dance melodies, his friends around him dancing and playing jokes - this is one of the traditional images of Schubert that we so cherish. The ter...

Fingering: Pascal Rogé According to Ravel himself, the strange title of the little piano piece composed in 1899, 'Pavane for a dead princess', should not be ascribed too much importance. He chose it m...