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Experience the profound sonic depth and masterful architecture of an outstanding orchestral work: The "Symphony No. 6" unfolds a multifaceted spectrum of emotions, dynamic variety, and orchestral bril...

Immerse yourself in one of the most expressive masterpieces of the late Romantic era: Arnold Schoenberg's "Verklärte Nacht op. 4" (Transfigured Night). Inspired by Richard Dehmel's moving poem, the wo...

Hardly more than a year before the first performance of the Lyric Suite on 8 January 1927, Alban Berg had suddenly emerged from almost total obscurity to world-wide fame with the premiere of Wozzeck....

To make myself clear: This is not programme music, it does not require an explanation attached to it; it speaks for itself. What it wishes to say it does by means of pure music. But it does say someth...

The fourth string quartet embodies that moment in Bartók's art in which the composer, surpassing the concentrated and retrospective third quartet, reaches a summit for the first time and casts his gaz...

Bartok's String Quartet No. 5 was commissioned by the formidable Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, leading patron of chamber music in the U. S. in the first half of the 20th century. Bartok is alleged to ha...

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...

Arnold Schoenberg's String Quartet No. 2 op. 10 with soprano (1907 /1908) is among the founding documents of New Music. The two poems by Stefan George 'Litanei' and 'Rapture ' were worked by Schoenber...

Kurt Weill developed his creative energies mainly within the world of musical theater, where he proved to be an immensely productive and imaginative innovator, but he also left behind a small body of...

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...

Béla Bartók’s monumental "Cantata profana" (The Enchanted Stags) is widely regarded as one of the most fascinating and profound vocal masterpieces of the 20th century. Based on an archaic Romanian leg...

Over the years, the need for a new edition of Mahler's Symphony No. 2 became apparent for several reasons. First, many new sources for this work have become accessible since 1970, when Erwin Ratz comp...

'All my earlier symphonies are mere preludes to this one. In the other works everything is subjective tragedy, - this one is a huge giver of joy.' (Gustav Mahler) Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8 is a w...

This edition of the first version of 1880 uses the musical text of the Complete Critical Edition. The work was first conducted according to this score on October 7th 1997 in Manchester by Kent Nagano....

Immerse yourself in the captivating sound world of Gustav Mahler's early masterpiece, "Das klagende Lied". In this revised two-movement version from 1899, the dramatic fairy-tale cantata unfolds with...

It's a massive, unruly, and unrestrained beast. Although based on a poem, Tutuguri is not exactly programmatic or episodic. Rather, Rihm's writing evokes the fragmentary feeling of a nightmare... (Cla...

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...

In the Kindertotenlieder as a whole, Mahler achieved a rather indescribable balance between extreme expressiveness and a moderated, well-balanced total restraint, which is directed inwards with a conq...

Immerse yourself in the fascinating, highly expressionistic sound world of Alban Berg's operatic masterpiece: The Lulu Suite (Symphonic Pieces from the Opera "Lulu"), composed in 1934, stands as one o...

Alexander Zemlinsky wrote the Lyrische Symphonie in 1922/23 with the aim of bridging the gap between the lyrical and the symphonic, in a similar way to Gustav Mahler’s Lied von der Erde. Zemlinsky’s w...