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Dear musicians
We are pleased to present our newsletter with details on Barenreiter’s new publications.
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We are immensely grateful for their companionship, their enthusiasm and for their feedback.
During our entire anniversary year we will be raising the curtain for our Bärenreiter Jubilee Ambassadors and presenting selected Ambassadors in our newsletters.
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| Jakub Hrůša, Conductor | |
"I cannot remember my very first encounter with a Bärenreiter edition because I feel that I have lived with them forever. It was probably Mozart. Making my way as a professional conductor, Bärenreiter editions were definitely the ones I used most, especially the works of Dvořák and later those of Beethoven.
In those cases where the publishing house prepares Urtext editions from scratch, the Bärenreiter scores are indispensable today, and I am very grateful for their quality.
My latest encounter with Bärenreiter’s beautiful scores was studying and conducting Janáček’s Osud (Fate) and the Glagolitic Mass in the edition prepared by Jiří Zahrádka."
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 | Masterwork of the international symphonic repertoire in a Bärenreiter Urtext edition
The complete cycle of six parts now in one volume
Detailed Foreword on the genesis and reception of the work by leading Smetana scholar Olga Mojžíšová (Cz/Eng/Ger) |
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| Smetana, Bedrich | | Má vlast (My Country) | BÄRENREITER URTEXT
Editor: Macdonald, Hugh | | BA 11573 | EUR 220.00 | Full score | 9790260109735 | TP 559 | EUR 58.00 | Study score | 9790260109605
The complete cycle of six parts now in one volume
Performance material available on hire
Since 2014, the six symphonic poems of the cycle "My Fatherland" by Bedrich Smetana have been published individually in new Urtext editions edited by Hugh Macdonald. Now all six parts of this unique work within the international symphonic repertoire are brought together in one conducting score.
The editor chose the autograph scores as his main source. The first editions of "Vyšehrad", "Vltava" and "From Bohemia's Woods and Fields" in fact contain several misprints and a number of inaccuracies due to an incorrect reading of the manuscripts; therefore, these first editions together with the composer's four-hand piano arrangements served the editor only as secondary sources. The first prints of the other parts of the cycle appeared after Smetana's death and were therefore not taken into account for this edition. | | |
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 | Scholarly-critical edition of Spohr's Fantasia
Detailed, practical Performing Practice Commentary and an additional annotated version
Urtext of Backofen's Fantasia in the appendix |
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| Spohr, Louis | Fantasia in C minor op. 35
for Harp | BÄRENREITER URTEXT
Editor: Nagasawa, Masumi | | BA 10954 | EUR 19.95 | Performance score | 9790006574780 | Louis Spohr's Fantasia op. 35 from 1807 comprises one of the standard works for solo harp repertoire today. It was composed in Gotha, where Spohr's wife Dorette received harp lessons from the court chamber musician Johann Backofen. On the young couple's concert tours at that time, Dorette not only performed new compositions by her husband for this instrument, but also fantasias by her teacher. The influence of Backofen's works on Spohr's Fantasia is unmistakable.
This new Urtext edition by harpist and musicologist Masumi Nagasawa presents the two fantasias by Spohr and Backofen accompanied by a detailed Foreword (Ger/Eng) and Critical Commentary (Eng). The edition also contains a score of Spohr's Fantasia with fingering and further historically informed performance markings provided by the editor. In addition, a comprehensive Performing Practice Commentary (Eng) is included, in which the performance of this piece, originally written for the single pedal harp, is conveyed on the modern double pedal harp in accordance with the performance practice of Spohr's time (including fingering, tempi, ornamentation, pedalling techniques such as glissandi, etc.). |
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 | Vocal score based on volume IV.31 of the "Opera Omnia Rameau"
With all the original versions of the work
Practical orchestral reduction by the experienced specialist François Saint-Yves
Interesting for chamber operas, academies and colleges |
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| Rameau, Jean-Philippe | Zéphire RCT 61
Acte de ballet | | Editor: Berton-Blivet, Nathalie | | BA 8872-90 | EUR 20.50 | Vocal score (French) | 9790006575893 | Rameau's ballet-opera "Zéphire" is based on the legend of Zephire and Flora, as immortalized by Ovid in the fifth book of his "Fasti". Zéphire, the god of the west wind, loves Chloris, a forest nymph of the goddess Diana. Despite the brevity of the dramatic action, the nymphs and zephyrs, the ballet and the chorus, are given great importance in the dances and choruses. In the end, the lovers win the favour of the feared goddess, and Zéphire transforms Chloris into Flora, the goddess of spring.
Similar to "Pygmalion", this ballet act also offers the popular ingredients of Rameau's operas in a compressed form: a fragrant, light orchestral texture alongside delicate, expressive melodies, in addition instrumental numbers of various colours, sometimes floating, then again with rhythmic drive. Interestingly, Zéphire is not cast as a haute-contre in this acte de ballet, but as a soprano.
The many questions surrounding the possible compositional context of this little gem, which was never performed during Rameau's lifetime, are explored in detail in the introduction to the corresponding Complete Edition volume published by OOR. This new critical edition is based on the autograph, which contains several layers of composition. Five appendices also reproduce the original versions in the vocal score, insofar as these could be restored. |
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 | Based on the G. Henle Complete Edition of the "Works of Joseph Haydn"
Orchestral parts in a practical large format (25.5 cm × 32.5 cm) |
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| Haydn, Joseph | | Symphony in F major Hob. I:67 | URTEXT
Editor: Stockmeier, Wolfgang | | BA 10993 | EUR 42.95 | Full score | 9790006578153 | Haydn composed his Symphony in F major Hob. I:67 around 1775/76, approximately ten years after his creative period began at the Esterházy Palace. At this time, the opera activities there were in a phase of development, which was accompanied by a small expansion of the prince's chapel. Haydn was now able to employ two bassoon parts in his symphonies for the first time, thus creating a fuller sound in the woodwinds of Symphony No. 67.
As well as the additional bassoon part, this work is characterised by several peculiarities in the strings: towards the end of the slow movement, they play with mutes and "col legno", the latter instruction being one of the earliest in music history for this style of playing. In the minuet trio, Haydn writes a scordatura for a soloist in the second violins: the lowest string of the violin must be tuned down a whole tone to "f" and is played as a continuous pedal note. | | | | BA 10993-74 | Violin I | EUR 12.95 | Minimum order quantity: 4 copies |
| | BA 10993-75 | Violin II | EUR 12.95 | Minimum order quantity: 4 copies |
| | BA 10993-79 | Viola | EUR 12.95 | Minimum order quantity: 3 copies |
| | BA 10993-82 | Violoncello | EUR 12.95 | Minimum order quantity: 2 copies |
| | BA 10993-85 | Violone / Double bass | EUR 12.95 | Minimum order quantity: 2 copies |
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 | Compilation of the instrumental numbers of the opera
Full score based on "Opera omnia Rameau", volume IV.29
Overview according to keys for a compilation of tailor-made orchestral suites |
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| Rameau, Jean-Philippe | Les Boréades RCT 31
Tragédie in five acts
Symphonies | | Editor: Bouissou, Sylvie | | BA 8898 | EUR 57.00 | Full score | 9790006578269 | | Although not performed during his lifetime, Rameau’s “Les Boréades” from 1762 are his musical masterpiece and a synthesis of his compositional work. All the musical innovations to which the composer subjected the traditional genre of the “tragédie lyrique” are manifested here, and so it is particularly the purely instrumental numbers – the divertissements and ballets – that so astonish us today in terms of their diversity of expression. Incorporated into the opera, they drive the dramatic plot forward and by means of motivic interlocking they adopt an overall formal function. In the form of orchestral suites, the baroque colour palette with its rhythmic complexity and atmospheric diversity can be heard on the basis of this edition quasi as absolute music – extremely varied and as tempestuous as the plot suggests. |
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| New Complete Edition Volumes |
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| Schubert, Franz | | Der Spiegelritter | New Schubert Edition II/11
Editor: Loy, Felix | | BA 5582-01 | EUR 328.00 | Full score, linen-bound | 9790006577156 | | Reduced subscription price available | Unfortunately, it has remained a fragment: "Der Spiegelritter" D 11, based on a libretto by August von Kotzebue, is Franz Schubert's earliest surviving stage work and thus marks the beginning of his almost lifelong endeavours to establish himself as a stage composer. The composer left behind eleven completed and a further eight unfinished works, of which only three were ever performed during his lifetime.
"Der Spiegelritter" D 11, which belongs to the Singspiel genre, is a typical "Viennese magic opera", which was popular and successful in Vienna even before Mozart's "The Magic Flute" and still in Schubert's day. As Schubert's autograph is undated and there are no other known sources on the question of when it was composed, numerous philological clues had to be used to narrow down the date. In the Introduction to the volume, the editor deals in detail with the complex question of dating, the libretto source, the classification of the fragmentary parts in the plot, questions as to the writing materials used in the corrections and the scoring. The edition itself presents the last authentic version of the fragment as it is seen in the autograph. However, not only did the work remain unfinished as a whole, but two of the surviving musical numbers are also fragments. In order to better place the composed parts in their dramatic context, the appendix of the volume contains the complete libretto as Schubert probably had it. |
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| Rameau, Jean-Philippe | Zéphire RCT 61
Acte de ballet | Jean-Philippe Rameau. Opera Omnia (OOR) IV/31
Editor: Berton-Blivet, Nathalie | | BA 8872-01 | EUR 158.00 | Full score, linen-bound | 9790006575886 | | Reduced subscription price available | The Acte de ballet "Zéphire" was never performed during the lifetime of its authors, although the autograph manuscript shows traces that Rameau worked on it several times between 1748 and 1759 – possibly with a view to performances that did not materialize? The introduction to this volume of the Complete Edition examines in detail the many unanswered questions regarding the dating, the attribution of the unknown librettist, the circumstances of the composition and the hypotheses in this regard.
The edition argues that the structure of the libretto of "Zéphire" reflects Louis de Cahusac's principles, as, similar to "Les Fêtes de Polymnie" and later "Les Fêtes de l'Hymen et de l'Amour", the score features numerous dances and choruses that are closely interwoven into the plot. Cahusac, who saw the imitation of nature as the essence of art, liked to provide precise stage directions for choral and ballet interludes; this is also the case in "Zéphire".
This critical edition is based on the undated autograph and a copy by the copyist Serre from 1777, whereby the autograph manuscript contains various layers of composition; these earlier layers are reproduced in five appendices as far as they can be reconstructed. |
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Bärenreiter Notes
in Smetana Green | |
| BA 8100-42 | EUR 0.95 | format: A6 | 32 pages | 9790006578283 | This little notebook is handsome as well as practical. The cover is in Bärenreiter's attractive Smetana-green and has the same layout as our Urtext editions.
The pages alternate with musical staves on the left and writing lines on the right. The superior quality of paper used for the notebook matches that of our fine Urtext editions.
"Bärenreiter Notes" serves ideally as:
- A student lesson book
- A general note book
- A gift |
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Bärenreiter Choral Music
A selection 2024/2025 | |
SPA 30 | 60 pages | format: A5 | English only | no prices | gratis
This new catalogue presents Bärenreiter’s choral music which for the most part covers sacred and secular works in Urtext vocal scores with their instantly recognisable blue covers. In addition to the Urtext editions the catalogue contains choral collections and facsimiles of choral works. Well-known choral conductors and ensembles who advocate our works are also featured.
You can download the catalogue or flip through it. | | |
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The Jubilee Magazine
Bärenreiter
1923-2023 | |
| SPA 568-01 | EUR 10.00 | 100 pages | English | | This magazine has been published in celebration of Bärenreiter's 100th anniversary and looks back on an eventful one hundred years of publishing history.
There's a lot to discover: from the beginnings in a living room in Augsburg to today's world-renowned "Bärenreiter Urtext" publisher. The magazine traces the ups and downs of Bärenreiter's history, recalls outstanding publications, explains the processes involved in the production of music editions and books and introduces the many Bärenreiter departments based in Kassel, London and Prague.
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Ambassador of Czech Music
The Czech publishing house Bärenreiter Praha is part of the Bärenreiter publishing group. It goes back to the Czechoslovakian state publishing house Supraphon, which was privatised after the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1991. The Bärenreiter Managing Directors Barbara and Leonhard Scheuch immediately decided to participate in the privatisation. After all, they had already been cultivating diverse relationships with Czechoslovakia for many decades. Among other things, the Complete Edition of Leoš Janáček's works, issued jointly with Editio Supraphon, commenced publication in 1978. The lengthy privatisation process finally came to an end in 1999, when Bärenreiter was able to acquire the Czech publishing house and incorporate it into the Bärenreiter Group.
The publishing oeuvre of Bärenreiter Praha spans the development of music from the Middle Ages to the present day and is primarily dedicated to the works of Czech composers, with the classical concert repertoire playing just as important a role as music educational editions, contemporary music and music books. With its 25 employees, the company publishes its own titles and is also the exclusive distributor of the Bärenreiter Group's products in Central and Eastern Europe and Russia.
The rental department provides performance material on hire for concerts and stage. The works come from both the catalogues of the Bärenreiter Group as well as other publishers.
In this way, Bärenreiter Praha continues to contribute to the dissemination of Czech music, fulfilling the high-quality standards of the Bärenreiter brand in terms of editorial techniques, design and printing. |
   
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