SKU: BR.OB-5321-27

Score and study score with the lyrics of Loriot

ISBN 9790004332757. 10 x 12.5 inches.

... quite unexpectedly, kangaroos with starched white caps start hopping about between the rows of seats, offering refreshments. The Great Zoological Fantasy was composed in February 1886 for a carnival concert in Paris. After the first concerts, Saint-Saens prohibited all further performances and declined to have the work published during his lifetime. He was justifiably fearful that this occasional work could eclipse his more ambitious pieces. The present Urtext edition by Peter Jost is based chiefly on the autograph, which diverges in certain essential points from the standard first edition available up to now. Loriot's well-known text is printed in the Appendix to the score.

SKU: BR.OB-4600-15

ISBN 9790004332788. 9 x 12 inches.

Piano vocal score by Siegfried Petrenz.

SKU: BR.KM-2456

World premiere: Graz (Steirischer Herbst), October 4, 1995

ISBN 9790004502228. 15 x 11.5 inches.

No one ist das kompositorische Resultat der einjahrigen Studien am IRCAM, wobei sich die Anwendung des Computers lediglich auf die Kalkulation formaler und harmonischer Prozesse konzentrierte, auf die Erstellung von ,,Spielregeln, denen die Handschrift folgte. Grundgedanke war es, alle Momente der Komposition - und diese sind grundsatzlich welche der Bewegung bzw. Veranderung - in je vier verschiedenen Formungen zu reprasentieren, entsprechend der vier beteiligten Instrumente. So kommt jedem der Interpreten die Rolle eines Solisten zu, bei gleichzeitiger Einbindung in eine ubergreifende Ordnung, welche selbst wiederum in sich die Idee der polyphonen Aufspaltung tragt. Diese Polyphonie vollzieht sich auch auf der zeitlichen Ebene; der uberwiegende Verzicht auf einheitliche Taktierung intendiert ein streckenweise asynchrones Spiel, bei dem die individuelle Auslegung des Zeitverlaufes vorrangig ist, nicht die gemeinsame Fixierung durch ein ubergeordnetes metrisches Raster. So entsteht vielleicht ein Bild - von vier Reisenden, die zwar die gleichen Orte ansteuern, jedoch verschiedene Wege und Tempi wahlen, sich gelegentlich treffen, einige Schritte gemeinsam gehen, dann wieder trennen... (Isabel Mundry)CDs:Arditti String QuartetCD MP 30 / 4 (30 Jahre Musikprotokoll ,,Moderne in Osterreich 1968-1997 (ORF)) Klangforum WienCD Wergo WER 6542-2Bibliography:Mundry, Isabel: Regelmassig unregelmassig - zur Fluchtigkeit von Mustern in der zeitgenossischen Musik, in: Muster. Ornament, Struktur und Verhalten (= Kontext Architektur), hrsg. von Andrea Gleiniger und Georg Vrachliotis, pp. 85-96.Mundry, Isabel: Reflexion und Sehnsucht, in: Isabel Mundry, hrsg. von Ulrich Tadday (= Musik-Konzepte. Neue Folge, Sonderband), Munchen: edition text+kritik 2011, pp. 157-177.

World premiere: Graz (Steirischer Herbst), October 4, 1995.

SKU: BR.OB-4866-30

ISBN 9790004323281. 9 x 12 inches.

SKU: BR.OB-5302-16

ISBN 9790004340028. 10 x 12.5 inches.

Between Beethoven and Brahms, a long neglected workSchumann's last work for solo instrument and orchestra was not given its premiere until 1937, at which time it was also released in an editorially inadequate version. A re-evaluation of Schumann's late oeuvre began in the 1980s, in the wake of which the missing link between the concertos of Beethoven and Brahms (Yehudi Menuhin) also drew increasing attention. Since then, those in the know have come to appreciate the work, whose unique musical and technical demands challenge for both interpreter and listener.This new edition of what is perhaps the most underestimated masterpiece of the Romantic era is the first meticulously prepared Urtext edition of the score. Nothing short of incredible is the fact that the composer's own piano reduction from which Clara Schumann and Joseph Joachim played the piece is being published here for the first time! Thomas Zehetmair, who has significantly contributed to the re-assessment of the concerto, assumed the task of providing a sound technical basis to his revision of the solo part.Perhaps this edition will help stimulate awareness and appreciation of this unjustly forgotten romantic violin concerto described by Menuhin as the missing link between the concertos by Beethoven to Brahms. (John Thomson, Stringendo)

Schumann's last work for solo instrument and orchestra was not given its premiere until 1937. This new edition is the first meticulously prepared Urtext edition of the score and the composer's own piano reduction - from which Clara played the piece!

SKU: BR.OB-15121-27

ISBN 9790004340165. 10 x 12.5 inches.

Schumann's A minor concerto is considered as the ultimate romantic piano concerto. Since the Schumann anniversary year 2010, musicians will be able to base their performance on a complete Urtext edition. The state of the sources is unfortunately patchy, as the original version of the first movement, a Phantasie of 1841 that was given two trial performances, can no longer be reconstructed. On the other hand, the posthumously published score raises certain questions, since it diverges from the editions (solo part and orchestral parts) authorized by Schumann and published in 1846, after the first performance. The pianist Mitsuko Uchida contributed the fingering for the version for two pianos. Schumann's great solo concertos are thus available in their entirety from Breitkopf, in editions prepared with the expert help of major interpreters: the Cello Concerto with Heinrich Schiff and the Violin Concerto with Thomas Zehetmair. Dans l'incomparable qualite de gravure de la plus ancienne maison d'edition musicale au monde! (L'education musicale).