Par DVORAK ANTONIN. The profound impression it makes on us is due in part to the sequence of variations on a death motif that seems to have been borrowed from the beginning of the second Kyrie from Bach's Mass in B minor. Written in 1890, it was commissioned by the publisher Novello for the Birmingham Music Festival and premiered there under the direction of the composer on 9 October 1891. For this performance, Dvorák used a copy of the score which he had personally examined and which later served as the engraver's copy. The Dvorák scholar Klaus Döge succeeded in tracking down its location and evaluating this important source for the first time. It contains the 'Fassung letzter Hand' and, moreover, offers valuable insights into Dvorák's conducting workshop. It served as the principal source for the Breitkopf Urtext edition./ Répertoire / Conducteur

Par MOZART WOLFGANG AMADEUS. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's horn concertos: the Mozart expert Henrik Wiese edits the central work genre of Viennese classicism according to the current status of international Mozart research. Mozart wrote the Horn Concerto K. 417 - like the other works of this genre as well - for his horn-playing friend Joseph Leutgeb. The jokes which the composer made at Leutgeb's expense are wellknown. For example, he called the dedicatee a 'donkey” in the autograph, and, as Henrik Wiese evidences in his preface, Mozart also occasionally enjoyed a bit of tomfoolery with the soloist in the musical text as well. Otherwise the editor's task was anything but amusing. The main source - the autograph score - is incomplete: missing are the close of Movement I as well as the entire slow middle movement. For these two sections, Wiese used a copy of the score from the archive of the publisher Johann André. The unusual circumstance that Mozart generally left the horn part almost unmarked recurs in the Concerto K. 417 and was deliberately maintained in the Urtext edition./ Répertoire / Conducteur

Le ' Nonetto ' ne fait pas partie du genremusique de chambre bien défini dans le catalogued'oeuvres de Hanns Eisler. Les troisoeuvres pour 9 instruments dans le volumedisponible se rapprochent plutôt de la musiquede film qu'Eisler écrivit aux USA. Le Nonettono 1 est quasi identique avec la brève musiquepour ' The Living Land ' (1939), la ' Suite forNine Instruments ' et le Nonetto #2 sontextraits du documentaire ' The Forgotten Village' (1941). Dans le Nonetto #1, Eislerreprit la musique dodécaphonique de sonmaître Schönberg et l'utilisa de façon trèsconséquente ce qui est surprenant de sa part.Pour la musique plus longue de ' The LivingLand ', Eisler retravailla différents mouvementsaussi bien encore aux USA (= ' Suite ')qu'après son retour en Europe (= ' Nonettono2 '). / Conducteur