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Some eighteen years elapsed between Raff’s first counted String Quartet op. 77 and his Quartets Nos. 6–8 op. 192, combined as one work. As such, Raff parted with the weighty single opus in quartet com...

Schumann’s close collaboration with the David quartet, together with the valuable advice of his friend Mendelssohn Bartholdy, led the composer to make extensive changes to the Streichquartette op. 41...

Immerse yourself in one of the most radiant masterpieces of the Baroque era: Johann Sebastian Bach's famous Overture (Orchestral Suite No. 2) in B minor, BWV 1067, has captivated ensembles and audienc...

These Impromptus are arrangements of the impromptus for piano from op. 5. The exact date for arranging the piano impromptus for string orchestra is presently not known, but it took place approximately...

Sibelius compuso este breve romance, de solo cinco minutos de duración, en Do mayor, op. 42, en 1903; la obra se estrenó en Turku en marzo de 1904. Más tarde, Sibelius cambió el título original, basta...

Exactly 300 years after Bach completed his unique cosmos of the Sei Solo á Violino senza Basso accompagnato, Kolja Lessing is presenting a collection, rich in discovery, of also 6 solo violin works in...

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy enriqueció el repertorio para violín con una de las obras más importantes de la literatura musical del siglo XIX: su Concierto para violín en mi menor, op. 64, MWV O 14. Ad...

Hasslers Liedsammlung 'Lustgarten Neuer Teutscher Gesäng' (1601) war so beliebt, dass sie um 1640 vollständig für Tasteninstrumente eingerichtet wurde. Martin Böcker hat für den Erstdruck 25 wirkungsv...

In his Preludes and Fugues, Johann Sebastian Bach made decisive contributions to the development of this genre tradition. The importance of this work group in his own organ oeuvre is confirmed by the...

In his Preludes and Fugues, Johann Sebastian Bach made decisive contributions to the development of this genre tradition. The importance of this work group in his own organ oeuvre is confirmed by the...

Although the 'fantasia' was already considered as old-fashioned around 1700, this genre exerted a particular fascination on the very young Bach - he had since relocated to Köthen - and the experienced...

Although the 'fantasia' was already considered as old-fashioned around 1700, this genre exerted a particular fascination on the very young Bach - he had since relocated to Köthen - and the experienced...

In this volume with the Toccatas (and Fugues) as well as individual works the Swiss organist Jean-Claude Zehnder has amply proven his mettle as a Bach specialist here. Of particular interest in this b...

Genres such as sonata, trio and concerto were initially uncommon in the keyboard music of the early 18th century. Thus it comes as no surprise that many of the pieces in this volume are arrangements b...

Volume 6 contains the three collections that Bach himself took to the printer: the Dritter Teil der Clavier-Übung was published in 1739; the Sechs Choräle von verschiedener Art ('Schübler-Choräle') an...

The basic repertoire of the 45 choral preludes of the Orgelbüchlein is hard to get by for any organist. Edited by Sven Hiemke, the volume offers the best possible prerequisites for everyday use. The m...

Volume 8 presents the work group called the 'Leipziger Choräle.' Next to the late versions compiled and entered by Bach himself in the manuscript 'P 271', all of the early versions with their sometime...

The now-published volumes 9 and 10 have presented a special challenge, for particularly in the field of the chorale arrangements the transmissions are more complex than in any other group of works. Th...

The now-published volumes 9 and 10 have presented a special challenge, for particularly in the field of the chorale arrangements the transmissions are more complex than in any other group of works. Th...

Wihin the extensive œuvre for organ left behind by Camillo Schumann, his 6 Organ Sonatas form an independent corpus. Although living and composing at a time when the music of Webern and Schönberg had...

This edition is the result of Harald Vogel's many years of practice as an organist and musicologist. The music text is based on a reevaluation of 17th- and 18th-century manuscripts containing the free...

Vermutlich hat sich Bach von der Begeisterung seines Hamburger Freundes Telemann für die 'Flûte traversière', die barocke Querflöte, anstecken lassen, denn er komponierte eine ganze Reihe Kammermusik...