The new Urtext edition of Schubert's lieder edited by Walther Dürr continues with volume 7, presented in separate volumes for high, medium, and low voice. This new volume contains the lieder that Schubert composed between May and August 1815, including his setting of Schiller's ballad 'Die Bürgschaft? (D 246).- Based on the Urtext of the 'New Schubert Edition?- Clear, well-presented engraving- For…

Par SAINT-SAENS CAMILLE. The second half of the 19th century represented something of a ?Golden Age? of the violin sonata in France: Influential violin sonatas such as those by Franck, Fauré and Saint-Saëns were among the successful works of this genre, inspiring many further compositions. Saint-Saëns? Violin Sonata No.1 was incorporated into the repertoire of numerous late 19th-century violinists…

The Richard Wagner Complete Edition presents the composer's entire output for the first time in a reliable form. The conductor Michael Balling, in the early years of the 20th century, attempted to make Wagner's work more accessible for research and performance, but the edition only reached 10 volumes - some with grave shortcomings - and was discontinued after Balling's death in 1925. A further att…

Robert Schumann's Kreisleriana for piano is a cycle of eight contrasting pieces composed in 1838. The work belongs to one of Schumann's most creative periods. It was influenced by the writings of author E. T. A. Hoffmann and was inspired by Schumann's love for his wife, Clara. The current edition has been thoroughly researched, with comparisons made between all early sources. The 1850 second editi…

Ed. Critica A. Borin. Par VIVALDI ANTONIO. Casa Ricordi Milano in partnership with Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venezia (Istituto Antonio Vivaldi). Critical edition by Alessandro Borin. The six Concerts op. VI for violin, strings and continuo by Antonio Vivaldi were published in Amsterdam by Roger in 1719. Although the contribution of Vivaldi was probably modest – even to assume that the collection wa…

Par HINDEMITH PAUL. The work of Paul Hindemith is encyclopedic in nature. From the outset, he worked in all musical genres and devised several of his musical ideas and projects not as individual, self-contained works but as work cycles with different functional relationships. These contrasting pieces complement each other if experienced as part of the overall structure. Hindemith himself not only …

Mozart?s Requiem Truth and Legend Mozart?s ?Requiem? is fraught with questions and emotions: the expressive depth of its music, sorrow at the great composer?s early death, truth and legend, fragments and attempts to complete the work. The surviving manuscript reflects its dramatic history: Mozart?s handwriting often appears on the same page as inscriptions by Süssmayr and others. One corner of a …

Par DE HAAN JACOB. The Book of Urizen is a work for concert band, solo soprano, and a male narrator in which sound collages of religious expressions are used. The piece is inspired by the compelling visionary poem of the same name (which the poet illustratedhimself) by the Englishman William Blake (1757-1827), who occupies a unique position in western literature and the visual arts. He was not jus…

Par SCHUBERT FRANZ. Schubert?s piano sonatas reflect the entire cosmos of his distinctive writing, spanning from an early experimentation with this form to the iconic last three sonatas, which the composer completed in 1828, the last year of his life. All three volumes are equipped with informative prefaces on the genesis and sources, as well as valuable notes on piano playing in Schubert's time (…

Opera in tre atti. Par HAENDEL GEORG FRIEDRICH. Antonio Salvi's ; Arminio is one of the best-loved operatic librettos of the Baroque period. Against the historical background of the so-called ; Battle of the Teutoburg Forest in 9 AD in which the Cherusci leader Arminius as ; Liberator of Germany (Tacitus) inflicted a devastating defeat on the Romans, Handel's opera, first performed in 1737, is abo…