By Johannes Brahms. Par MAUS FRANK. With his diverse musical activities and venues, Frank Maus (1937–2022) was an institution in the musical life of the cosmopolitan city of Berlin. Born in Haan near Solingen, he worked as a solo repetiteur at the Vienna State Opera, after studying in Cologne, and from 1966 at the Deutsche Oper Berlin before being appointed to a professorship for repertoire in the…

First Urtext edition of the original piano reductionViolin/piano score with a separate Urtext solo violin partWith optimal page turns in the solo violin part by means of a fold-out page and vacat pagesForeword by the editor (Cz/Eng/Ger) Critical Commentary (Eng) by the editor / Violon Et Piano

Trauerfeier. Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. Two versions survive: 1st version composed 1736/37, 2nd version in the first half of the 1740s. The versions differ only in instrumentation, and both are integrated in this edition. / Mottet / Répertoire / Choeur SATB, 2 Litui (2 Cors), Cto (Violon) et 3 T

Cantata for the Feast of St. Michael. Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir (Lord God, we praise Thee all of us) BWV 130 Cantata for the Feast of St. Michael Composed for Michaelmas, 1724, Bach's cantata 'Herr Gott dich loben alle wir' belongs to the cycle of chorale cantatas which uses a hymn, as perhaps various preachers also did, to interptet the ideas of the Biblical texts.…

Par SOMMER LUKAS. This children's album by renowned Czech composer-guitarist Lukáš Sommer reflects the latest trends in playing and teaching the Guitar. It is suitable for the first three years of lessons. Some of the pieces have even been performed by children and young Guitar students at competitions and concerts in Europe. Each of these little programme pieces is written in a different style wi…

Georg Frideric Händel 's Serse (Xerxes) has everything one would expect from a Baroque opera - many intertwining love stories, affairs, intrigues, scheming, misunderstanding and forgiving - all presented in the great master's magnificent music. The opera is set in Persia in 480 BC and is very loosely based upon Xerxes I of Persia, though there is little in either the Baroque libretto or music that…

2. Ausgabe. Par HOWARD JAMES NEWTON. Film adaptations of classic T.V. shows from the 1960s were the latest trend in Hollywood during the 1990s. Rising above the pack was director Andrew Davis’ vision of The Fugitive, based on characters created by Roy Huggins. Released in 1993, it was an enormous success for Warner Bros. bringing in $369.9 million for the studio and garnering 7 Academy Awards, inc…

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…

This critical edition of the Trio is an excerpt from the COMPLETE WORKS OF CLAUDE DEBUSSY, Series III, volume 1. Debussy's Piano Trio, his second surviving instrumental work, dates from late summer 1880, just as the composer was turning eighteen. The Trio was long thought to have survived only in an autograph score of its opening movement, plus a cello part showing three more movements. In the ear…

Par SCHUBERT FRANZ. Volume 9 of the new Urtext edition of Schubert's lieder contains lieder composed during the spring and summer of 1816, some of which follow upon series started in 1815. They are available in separate books for high, medium and low voice. The volume was completed by the eminent Schubert scholar Walter Dürr who passed away at the beginning of 2018. It was in 1816 that Schubert c…