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'In the Mandarin he finally breaks with the romantic tradition and also turns away from the artistic endeavours typical of the turn of the century. The pantomime reflects for the first time what Bartó...

Galánta is a small Hungarian market-town known to the travellers from Vienna to Budapest. The composer has passed there seven years of his childhood. There existed at that time a famous Gipsy-band whi...

Trio and the Miami String Quartet, to whom it is dedicated. String parts available on rental. For advanced ensembles. Duration: 24’

Immerse yourself in the mystical, late-Romantic soundscape of "Pelléas and Mélisande, Op. 46". This masterful symphonic poem captures the tragic fate of the famous lovers through a deeply moving orche...

Text von Samuel Beckett

Immerse yourself in the powerful sonic world of Wolfgang Rihm's masterpiece "IN-SCHRIFT" from 1995. In this gripping orchestral work, one of the most prominent contemporary composers explores the boun...

The three-movement piece has a traditional fast-slow-fast form, but with individual formal characteristics in each movement. In the very first movement, the soloist begins immediately after a tutti ch...

Universal Edition introduces a new study score standard. These completely redesigned scores offer an unparalleled insight into the music of the last hundred years. Great care has been taken to select...

The large-scale form of Symphony No. 9 is unusual in a number of ways. It reminds in no way of the ninth symphonies of famous predecessors. Two slow movements, an Andante comodo at the beginning and a...

Universal Edition continues its new study score standard. These completely redesigned scores offer an unparalleled insight into the music of the last hundred years. Great care has been taken to select...

Gustav Mahler’s 'Funeral Rites' (literally translated: 'Celebration of the Dead') was initially conceived as the first movement of a symphony in C minor and completed in 1888. After certain alteration...

The songs are conceived as a whole, as if a wayfarer, with his destiny, is now looking out into the world and is wandering from place to place. … The most painful experiences were bound to come… (Gust...

This edition is based on the fi rst printed score published in 1927 (Universal Edition UE 8943), and was compared with Kodály’s own conductor’s copy, three additional scores held in the Budapest Zoltá...

Only tones are capable of solving the riddles of thoughts that are so often awakened in our soul. – Hans Christian Andersen's timeless quote perfectly captures the deeply moving expressive power of th...

Here the fourths, springing from an entirely different expressive urge, shape themselves into a defi nite horn theme, spread themselves out architectonically over the whole piece, and place their stam...

Composed between the spring of 1906 and July of the same year, the Chamber Symphony op. 9 for 15 solo instruments represents a point of culmination in Schoenberg's artistic development, the consequenc...

Janácek did not live to see his final opera 'Z mrtvého domu' ('From the House of the Dead') performed. The work was so different from his previous operas in its often chamber-like orchestration and it...

The new critical and practical edition of Sinfonietta reflects all existing sources, including those recently discovered during the work on the edition. It is primarily based on the transcription of t...

Nach dem Text der kritischen Partiturausgabe der Kurt Weill Edition Ser. II, Vol. 2.

Friedrich Cerhas Konzert für Schlagzeug und Orchester setzt einen Reichtum an Klangfinessen und unglaublichen Energieschüben frei, der staunen lässt.' (Salzburger Nachrichten)

Immerse yourself in the captivating sonic universe of Symphony No. 7 – a monumental orchestral masterpiece filled with dramatic depth, orchestral color, and emotional contrasts. Published by the renow...