Urtext Edition

At the beginning of the 18th century, the recorder enjoyed great popularity as a solo instrument for amateurs. Among these were also the princesses of the English court, for whose musical entertainmen...

The flute concerto in G minor, HWV 287, is presented here in a first edition. Although the work has been available as an oboe concerto in volume IV/12 of the Hallische Händel-Ausgabe since 1971, it ha...

Handel set the myth of the love of the shepherd Acis for the sea nymph Galatea from Ovid's Metamorphoses a total of three times: in the cantata "Aci, Galatea e Polifemo" HWV 72 (1708), the masque "Aci...

Imeneo was performed for the first time on November 22, 1740 at the theater in Lincoln's Inn Field in London; a second performance took place on December 13, 1740. In contrast to the variety of events...

The opera "Le nozze di Figaro" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Lorenzo Da Ponte, which premiered on May 1, 1786 at the Vienna Court Theatre, can be regarded as one of the greatest operatic successes of...

Inspired by patterns from the Commedia dell'Arte, the plot, set in Seville, introduces the old "graybeard" Don Belflor (retired bullfighter and womanizer), his young wife Coraline and her lover Tracol...

While his contemporaries still regarded him as one of the greatest musicians of all time, Telemann's star faded in the course of the 19th century in the oversized shadow of Bach and Handel to the poin...

Serenade for Winds. Urtext of the New Mozart Edition - Serenade for Winds. Oboe (2), Clarinet in bb (2), Horn (2), Bassoon (2) - set of parts; Urtext edition

This short work, composed by Rossini in May 1832, consists of an introduction and a three-part Allegro. The opening melody of the allegro is an early example of Rossini's reuse of musical material. Th...

In 1776, around ten years after Haydn took up his position at Esterházy Palace, he composed his Symphony in D major Hob. I:61, which is characterized by a fuller woodwind sound compared to the symphon...

Smetana composed the first four symphonic poems from the six-part cycle My Fatherland in the years 1874-1875 and, after completing the fourth part - From Bohemia's Grove and Field - he soon arranged a...

Since 2014, the six symphonic poems of Bedrich Smetana's cycle "My Fatherland" have been published individually by Bärenreiter in new Urtext editions, edited by Hugh Macdonald. The present edition com...

Piccolo, Flöte (2), Oboe (2), Klarinette in b (2), Fagott (2), Kontrafagott, Horn (2), Trompete (2), Posaune (3), Pauke, Streicher - Kritischer Bericht

Johann Sebastian Bach’s harpsichord concertos, which are hugely popular today, once offered the composer a real field for experimentation. Bach often used pre-existing material. Thus, there is much to...

It would be hard to imagine today’s concert repertoire without the harpsichord concertos of Johann Sebastian Bach. It is not known whether the A-major Concerto BWV 1055, like some of the other harpsic...

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...

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...

This Henle edition is full of mistakes! We can freely admit this, because the odd notes here all come from Mozart himself – he consciously inserted them into his Musical Joke. In this amusing and misc...

This Henle edition is full of mistakes! We can freely admit this, because the odd notes here all come from Mozart himself – he consciously inserted them into his Musical Joke. In this amusing and misc...

I want to do an edition that is not a Koopman interpretation, but brings only what is really Handel.' (Ton Koopman)

Die Neue Robert Schumann-Ausgabe (RSA) versteht sich als historisch-kritische Gesamtausgabe. Gemäß dem neuesten Stand der musikwissenschaftlichen Editionstechnik sollen sämtliche Werke sorgfältig aufb...

Critical report only.