Universal Edition

Mahler's songs based on poems by Friedrich Rückert (1788 -1866) are not a cycle. The only link between them is that they were penned by the same poet. Mahler himself presented them in different select...

(...) Close study of the score has revealed the remarkable sophistication and originality of the architecture of the Altenberglieder. The careful organization of motives relating Songs I and V is perh...

Taschenpartitur - nach dem Text der Kritischen Gesamtausgabe

Bartók's Dance Suite was composed in 1923 and premiered in the same year in Budapest. The occasion was the 50th jubilee of the unification of Buda, Óbuda and Pest to Hungary's capital Budapest.

My symphony will be something the world has never heard! Nature in its entirety is given a voice and tells such secrets that one could only dream of! (Gustav Mahler) Universal Edition introduces a ne...

I was graced with a pleasant period, and I believe it is more personal than anything else I have done until now. (Gustav Mahler, 1908, to Bruno Walter) Universal Edition continues its new study score...

Eastern exoticism, French impressionism and perfumed lyricism: Polish composer Karol Szymanowski in war-torn Europe in 1916 providing ecstasy without the agony in what he called 'a new style and new t...

Universal Edition issues a handsome new study score of one of Szymanowski's finest works. The Symphony's foundation is a captivating Persian poem, and text is included in Polish, German, and English.

The rhapsody for orchestra 'Taras Bulba' is the most important and on account of its genesis the most interesting of the three programmatic orchestral works the composer wrote between 1914 and 1920. A...

Die 'Symphonie Nr. 5' markiert einen Wendepunkt in Gustav Mahlers Leben. Erstmals wandte er sich nach seiner 'Symphonie Nr. 1' wieder der reinen Instrumentalmusik zu. Der Beginn seiner Arbeit daran is...