Christian Rudolf Riedel

The first textcritical edition of Mahler's most extensive work is a further milestone in the project, 'Mahler - The Symphonies.' The many sources first consulted here for an edition include, among oth...

Of all his symphonies, Mahler gave the Fourth, his favorite and problem child, his most particular attention. 'The Heavenly Life,' a humoresque composed in 1892 for soprano and piano, which he already...

The Song of the Earth, composed in the summer of 1908, is Mahler's best-known and most personal work. Reflecting drastic changes in his life, its immense emotional density is very moving. Until the ve...

Originally, the present work - with Latin text and the title 'Non nobis, Domine' - was a gift composed by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy for his sister Fanny's 25th birthday in November 1830. Five years...

For the first time clearly the 'version last hand

Orchesterbesetzung: 4 (3 Picc)/4 (Englischhorn)/4 (Klarinette i Es, B-Klarinette)/3 (Kontrafagott) - 7/4/3/1 - 2 Pk/Schlagwerk (3) - Harfe (2. ad lib.) - Str

Instrumentation: winds (2/2/2 - 4/1/0/0), timpani, harp + strings

Faust' Overture for the first time in the original text The question 'Why music to such accomplished poetry?' moved Schumann long and intensely. In 1844 his compositional approach to Goethe's 'Faust'...

The importance of the genre "overture" for Robert Schumann is shown by the creation chronology of his only opera. The composer notes "overture thoughts" as the first keyword in the household book and...

Instrumentation: winds (2/2/2 - 4/1/0/0), timpani, harp + strings

Mir war das Stück gerade besonders ans Herz gewachsen, obwohl es schwerlich für das sogenannte Publikum was ist; aber mir war's lieb ... schrieb Mendelssohn über seine Vertonung des 114. Psalms.

Mozart komponierte das 'Ave verum corpus' für Chor, Streicher und Orgel knapp ein halbes Jahr vor seinem Tod. Hector Berlioz pries das Werk als Vorbild für die richtige Verwendung der menschlichen Sti...

I had just grown particularly fond of the piece, although it is hardly something for the so-called audience; but I loved it ... Mendelssohn wrote about his setting of the 114th Psalm.

I had just grown particularly fond of the piece, although it is hardly something for the so-called audience; but I loved it ... Mendelssohn wrote about his setting of the 114th Psalm.

I had just grown particularly fond of the piece, although it is hardly something for the so-called audience; but I loved it ... Mendelssohn wrote about his setting of the 114th Psalm.

I had just grown particularly fond of the piece, although it is hardly something for the so-called audience; but I loved it ... Mendelssohn wrote about his setting of the 114th Psalm.

I had just grown particularly fond of the piece, although it is hardly something for the so-called audience; but I loved it ... Mendelssohn wrote about his setting of the 114th Psalm.

I had just grown particularly fond of the piece, although it is hardly something for the so-called audience; but I loved it ... Mendelssohn wrote about his setting of the 114th Psalm.