Solomotette Zum Dreifaltigkeitsfest Oder Zu Weihnachten. Par MOZART WOLFGANG AMADEUS. A good six years following its first performance in Milan [1773] a second version of Exsultate, jubilate was completed for a performance on Trinity Sunday in 1779. It has survived in a manuscript from Salzburg. This “Salzburg version, ” which was discovered in 1978, differs from the “Milan version” primarily thro…

The quartet in a minor is one of the chamber music works with which Schubert wanted to 'pave the way to the great symphony? in spring 1824. At the same time he was paving his way to a wider audience, as the 'Rosamunde? Quartet was the first and only string quartet that was not only publicly performed in Schubert's lifetime but also published in parts. It is fortunate for us that this was the case …

ré mineur. Par BEETHOVEN LUDWIG VAN. It owes its much-quoted nickname 'Tempest' to a note by Beethoven's famulus Anton Schindler, whom the composer advised to 'read Shakespeare's Tempest' as a key to the work. But Schindler had also asked for the Sonata op. 57 in the same breath, so that in the end it remained unclear which of the two sonatas was really meant. The preface of the new edition explai…

Par BEETHOVEN LUDWIG VAN. The Bärenreiter Urtext edition of Ludwig Van Beethoven 's Concerto No. 1 In C Major Op. 15 For Piano features a detailed commentary by Bärenreiter editor and Beethoven expert Jonathan Del Mar. In Beethoven ’s autograph for Concerto No. 1 In C Major Op. 15 For Piano Del Mar found no less than 17 corrections which were made after the work was published. These have been brou…

According to Mozart's own catalogue, K. 491 was completed on 24 March 1786 - it was Mozart's only piano concerto aside from K. 466 that was in a minor key. It was probably first performed two weeks later as part of an 'academy? at the Burgtheater in Vienna. Mozart was extremely pressed for time while composing this work, a fact that is shown both by the cursory way in which the autograph was writt…

This study score is based on the score and complete performance material of Dvorák's famous B minor Cello Concerto (BA 9045) edited by Jonathan Del Mar and published in 2011. In addition the study score contains a Foreword by Dvorák scholar Jan Smaczny.Like every other major 19th-century cello concerto, Dvorák's concerto resulted from a collaboration between the composer and a virtuoso musician. S…

New findings in Beethoven?s first piano concerto The Bärenreiter editor and Beethoven expert Jonathan Del Mar who has received international acclaim for his highly successful editions of Beethoven?s works now turns his focus on the piano concertos. In the Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major op. 15, Del Mar has found no less than 17 corrections in Beethoven?s autograph which were made after the work …

Bärenreiter Claude Debussy La Mer – Trois Esquisses Symphoniques: Facsimile of the autograph score in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, edited by Denis Herlin and Mathias Auclair, from the series ‘Documenta musicologica II/58 / Bärenreiter Facsimile’, ISBN 9783761826508, BVK04019, 33.5 x 47 cm, 198 pages, half leather / Bärenreiter

The 'Eroica Variations'---so-called because they were later re-worked for the finale of Beethoven's third ('Eroica') Symphony, Op. 55---occupy a prominent place in piano literature. Its structural grandeur and the originality and beauty of its piano writing set this work apart. The technical demands are considerable, on par with many other works from Beethoven's middle period. A brilliant finger t…

Cherubini owes his fame as a church composer primarily to the 'Requiem in C minor? of 1817. It was held in extraordinarily high esteem by such composers as Beethoven and Schumann and served as a model for early 19th-century Requiem settings. Dispensing entirely with solo voices, it captivates with its rigorous formal concentration and its restrained use of musical resources in both choir and orche…

Solomotette Zum Dreifaltigkeitsfest Oder Zu Weihnachten. Par MOZART WOLFGANG AMADEUS. A good six years following its first performance in Milan [1773] a second version of Exsultate, jubilate was completed for a performance on Trinity Sunday in 1779. It has survived in a manuscript from Salzburg. This “Salzburg version, ” which was discovered in 1978, differs from the “Milan version” primarily thro…

Par BEETHOVEN LUDWIG VAN. This new scholarly-critical edition of String Quartet Op. 127, the first of Beethoven’s late quartets, follows upon Urtext publications of Opp. 18, 59, 74 and 95. Once more the editor is the renowned Beethoven authority Jonathan Del Mar. All surviving sources have been consulted including sketches to clarify the conflicting readings in the autograph. Not only has Del Mar …

Satie's progressive incidental music of 1891-92, though explicitly aimed against French 'Wagnérisme?, is not intended as a parody. Commissioned by the Rosicrucian master and ardent Wagnerian Joséphin Péladan, this plain, purely instrumental music proceeds independently from the dramatic action. For the first time, this pioneering Urtext edition on Satie's incidental music evaluates a previously ne…

Rachmaninoff composed his collection of 13 songs op. 34 in 1912, but it was only three years later that he added a little closing piece without any text: the Vocalise, which soon outshone the other songs in terms of popularity and renown. Since its first performance in 1916 this expressive, melancholy piece has circulated in countless arrangements by others. Rachmaninoff himself made an arrangemen…

First scholarly-critical editionThe single-movement String Quartet #2 by Josef Suk (1874-1935) was written at the height of his compositional powers. Completed in Krecovice in May 1911, this demanding work, with its complex harmonies and motivic structure, seemed avant-garde for its day: the Berlin premiere of November 1912 was accompanied by protests from the audience.Now Zdenek Nouza has edited …