| +++ Bärenreiter News – January 2024 +++ |
Dear musicians
We are pleased to present our newsletter with details on Barenreiter’s new publications.
Would you like to learn more about Barenreiter? In our newsletters you can find out more about the history of the publisher.
Please visit our anniversary page 100.baerenreiter.com and our social media channels regularly. You will find background information and exciting news throughout our jubilee year 2023/2024.
Further information on these editions and music samples can be found on our website. All editions can be ordered directly from our webstore.
We look forward to receiving your orders.
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Bärenreiter would be nothing without conductors, instrumentalists and singers who bring our music to life all over the world.
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. |
| Jeanine De Bique, Soprano | |
"As a young student in New York I recall purchasing my first Bärenreiter score, Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, a gift into the future! Soon after on Christmas day, opening my sister’s gift, out came that famous blue book, Händel’s Alcina. I screamed for joy. These two scores were the defining moments in my career when I performed the roles of Alcina and Susanna at Opéra de Paris. For me Bärenreiter symbolizes reliability and accuracy which allows me to approach projects with great confidence. I’m proud to be a Bärenreiter Ambassador."
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| | Ideal introduction to Josef Suk's piano works
From easy to intermediate difficulty with meticulously conceived fingering by Markéta Týmlová
Two pieces ("Spanish Joke" and "Vysoká Polka") published for the first time |
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| Suk, Josef | | Easy Piano Pieces and Dances | | Editor: Hájek, Jonáš | | BA 11575 | EUR 14.95 | 9790260109704 | | Short, technically easy pieces from the rich piano oeuvre of Josef Suk (1874-1935) form the latest addition to the established series "Easy Piano Pieces and Dances". The editor has included a varied selection of 12 compositions from the period 1893-1928 in this album ranging from playful and carefree atmospheric pieces ("Village Serenade" and "Humoresque"), through musical gifts for friends ("Albumleaf", "Little Song") to serious and deeply intimate movements from Suk's masterful piano cycles. Here advanced beginners can already practise their interpretative skills with subtle expressive means. Included for the first time are Suk's humorous greeting "Spanish Joke" which he sent to a friend on a postcard from Madrid in 1909 as well as a polka that was "often played by musicians for Master Dvorák" which was arranged by Suk for piano 30 years later entitled "Vysoká Polka". | | |
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| | Based on the Urtext of the "Halle Handel Edition"
Bilingual Foreword (Ger/Eng)
Includes the version of the premiere as well as two further performable versions
Practical, easy-to-play piano reduction |
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| Handel, George Frideric | Semele HWV 58
Musical Drama in Three Acts | BÄRENREITER URTEXT
Editor: Risinger, Mark | | BA 4025-90 | EUR 49.95 | Vocal score (Eng) | 9790006569052 | Performance material available on hire
The composition "Semele", which premiered in February 1744, does not correspond to the genre criteria of either opera or oratorio and thus belongs to a number of significant works by Handel that elude clear classification. The editor of this edition calls the work a "musical drama in three acts".
The secular material is borrowed from Greek mythology. Semele, Zeus' lover – as always on such occasions in a transformed appearance – arouses the jealousy of Zeus' wife Hera and ultimately dies. Although Handel himself only performed it in concertante form, the work lends itself to staged performances, which is how it was performed time and again from the 20th century onwards.
This vocal score is based on the Urtext of the "Halle Handel Edition" (Volume I/19.1, BA04025-01). In consideration of a complex source situation, the three surviving versions of the work that were performed during Handel's lifetime are presented here for the first time. Alternative movements of the early version as well as of the version performed at the end of 1744 can be found in the appendix. | | |
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| Now available for U.S. customers |
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| | New scholarly-critical edition of Ravel's famous sonata
First scholarly-critical edition of the "Berceuse sur le nom de Gabriel Fauré"
Foreword on the historical context and performance practice issues (Eng/Ger) as well as a Critical Commentary (Eng) |
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| Ravel, Maurice | Sonata / Berceuse sur le nom de Gabriel Fauré
for Violin and Piano | BÄRENREITER URTEXT
Editor: Woodfull-Harris, Douglas | | BA 9428 | EUR 26.50 | Score with part | 9790006541362 | This title was published in May 2022 and was not available in the USA until the end of 2023 because of copyright restrictions. The edition is now available in the USA.
Ravel worked on his Sonata for Violin and Piano for four years (1923-1927) which was longer than he took for any other composition. According to the composer, the reason for his difficulties was the "fundamental incompatibility" of these two instruments. However, the interplay between two quite different partners is precisely what makes this sonata so charming. The violin and piano are independent, sometimes playing alongside each other and at other times with each other: here in a lyrical Allegretto, there in a jazz-inspired second movement, finally in a "perpetuum mobile" finale.
This new edition edited by Douglas Woodfull-Harris corrects numerous inconsistencies of earlier editions. It also includes the "Berceuse sur le nom de Gabriel Fauré" which is available for the first time in a scholarly-critical Urtext edition. This lullaby for violin and piano consists of variations on a theme derived from the letters of Fauré's name. | | |
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| Gluck, Christoph Willibald | Le feste d'Apollo
Festa teatrale
Version Parma 1769 | Christoph Willibald Gluck. Complete Edition III/28
Editors: Buschmeier, Gabriele / Foerster, Isolde von | | BA 5808-01 | EUR 985.00 | Full score, linen-bound | 9790006495597 | Reduced subscription price available
The Festa teatrale "Le feste d'Apollo" is the last commissioned composition that Gluck wrote for the House of Habsburg for a festive occasion. As part of lavish celebrations for the wedding of Archduchess Maria Amalia to Duke Ferdinand of Bourbon-Parma, the festive opera consisting of an allegorical prologue and three thematically independent acts ("Atto di Bauci e Filemone", "Atto d'Aristeo" and "Atto d'Orfeo") was premiered on August 24, 1769 in Parma with the "Prologo" and the "Atto d'Orfeo". In accordance with its formal structure, the individual parts of the work were repeatedly performed separately on a total of 13 evenings until the end of the wedding celebrations. This made "Le feste d'Apollo" part of an important political and artistic event that attracted a great deal of attention throughout Europe. ... | | |
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Contact with Hugo Distler (1932)
The composer Hugo Distler was an important discovery in the early years of Bärenreiter. Karl Vötterle even spoke of a “new beginning” in his company’s work. Bruno Grusnick, director of the Lübeck Sing- und Spielkreis and closely associated with Bärenreiter as a Buxtehude researcher, had sent Distler's recently completed manuscript of the "Jahrkreis" – a “collection of 52 two- and three-part sacred choral pieces” – with a letter of recommendation in autumn 1932.
In the score, Dr Richard Baum who was Karl Vötterle's long-time editor and confidant, recognised the "new music" they were looking for as an "expression of their time", which did not feel like avant-garde modernism, but was related to the music of the “Singbewegung” (singing movement) and was "shaped by the austere spirit of the old masters", but which was written by a young “contemporary man”. The 24-year-old composer was immediately invited and appeared in Kassel, “small, blond and petite, spirited and shy at the same time”. An agreement was quickly reached and on 11 November 1932 Hugo Distler was already able to write in a publisher's questionnaire: “Bärenreiter will shortly be publishing my 5-part Chorale Passion op. 7 and 'Der Jahrkreis' op. 5.” As Vötterle stressed the importance of "long-term collaboration", all works were published until Distler's early death in 1942 and manuscripts that were rediscovered in the 1990s were also published posthumously.
This was despite the difficult times in which the composer and his work were subjected to hostility and defamation by the National Socialists. In his memoirs "Haus unterm Stern", Vötterle confessed that there were only a few cases in which he had “published work after work of a composer with so much enthusiasm, with such firm belief in the validity of what he had created.” Hugo Distler's entry into the publishing house marked Bärenreiter’s clear turn towards contemporary music. |
| 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. A magazine well-worth browsing. |
| The Programme – January-June 2024 |
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The Programme
New Publications
January-June 2024 | | SPA00040 | 44 pages | English | gratis | This brochure, once again adorned by our jubilee logo, marks the halfway point of our 100th anniversary celebrations. It features all the new issues to be published during the first half of this year. You will find editions for piano, strings, chamber music, orchestra, harp, flute, and opera. Also included is a new facsimile edition, the new volumes within our Complete Edition series as well as new works by our contemporary composers.
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