The Mozart of the 19th century' Robert Schumann Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's works for violoncello and piano occupy a special place within the repertoire of cellists and chamber musicians. The lyrical 'Song without Words' ('Romance sans paroles') is among the most popular of all teaching pieces. Mendelssohn was inspired by his contacts with the leading cellists of his day to write for this instrument. This unique Urtext edition contains all of Mendelssohn's finished works for violoncello and piano as well as reconstructions and completions of his unfinished works for the same scoring. The editor R. Larry Todd has composed the cello part for the variations and has completed the graceful 'Assai tranquillo'. ' Urtext edition containing all of Mendelssohn's works for violoncello and piano (2 volumes: BA 9096/BA 9097) ' Also includes reconstructions or completions of Mendelssohn's unfinished works for violoncello and piano ' Informative Foreword (Eng/Ger) and Critical Commentary (Eng) with facsimile pages Variations concertantes op. 17 Romance sans paroles op. 109 Assai tranquillo Variations Variations concertantes abandoned earlier Version of Variation 6
SKU: BR.SON-437
ISBN 9790004803158. 10 x 12.5 inches.
Nine variegated Sacred Vocal Works with Orchestra by Mendelssohn have been compiled in this volume. They stem not only from various creative phases of the composer, but also in view of their vocal settings show up marked differences and thus reflect the variety of Mendelssohns creative oeuvre. One shared aspect is that all nine works remained unprinted during the composers lifetime. Only the Lauda Sion achieved celebrity; it was published with the posthumously attributed opus number 73 and took its place next to other choral works by Mendelssohn already in the 19th century. Now published within the Mendelssohn Complete Edition, it boasts a text-critically revised score available in many cases for the first time, and from which impulses for musical practice are sure to arise.
SKU: BR.SON-419
ISBN 9790004803059. 10 x 12.5 inches.
The year 1828 was a Durer Year (300th anniversary of death), and the Berlin Durer Festival was looking for a suitable composer to write the festival cantata. The renowned Carl Friedrich Zelter turned down the offer and recommended his pupil instead, the 18-year-old Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. He accepted, and, within a few weeks, the Festmusik MWV D1, was finished, his first full-scored sacred vocal work. Mendelssohns Festmusik subsequently fell into oblivion despite its much-applauded world premiere. The specific context and the rather wooden libretto most likely proved too prohibitive even though the young composer had given his best. This can now be confirmed for the first time by consulting the new printed edition.
SKU: BR.SON-444
Editorial Board: Christian Martin Schmidt (chairman), Peter Ward Jones, Friedhelm Krummacher, R. Larry Todd, Ralf Wehner; research associates: Ralf Wehner, Clemens Harasim, Birgit Muller
ISBN 9790004803523. 10 x 12.5 inches.
The Leipziger Ausgabe der Werke von Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy pursues the goal of making accessible to the public in an adequately scholarly form all of Mendelssohn's accessible compositions, letters and writings, along with all other documents of his artistic oeuvre. A considerable number of Mendelssohn's works are still waiting to be published; many others have been published in an unsatisfactory manner.Though the new Mendelssohn Complete Edition follows the ten volumes of the Leipziger Mendelssohn Ausgabe (LMA) published by the Deutscher Verlag fur Musik (DVfM) in Leipzig since 1961, it sees itself as a fundamentally new conception which reflects the present-day standard of scholarly editions.The first volumes of the new Complete Edition were presented in Leipzig on 3 November 1997 at Mendelssohn Festtage in Leipzig.SON 411 - 413 have been awarded the German Music Edition Prize 2006.Editorial Board: Christian Martin Schmidt (chairman), Peter Ward Jones, Friedhelm Krummacher, R. Larry Todd, Ralf Wehner; research associates: Ralf Wehner, Clemens Harasim, Birgit Muller.
SKU: BR.SON-403
ISBN 9790004802243. 10 x 12.5 inches.
SKU: BR.SON-434
ISBN 9790004803127. 10 x 12.5 inches.
SKU: BR.SON-409
ISBN 9790004802366. 10 x 12.5 inches.
SKU: BR.SON-411
Awarded the German Music Edition Prize 2006 (SON 411-413)
ISBN 9790004802380. 9 x 12 inches.
SKU: BR.SON-413
ISBN 9790004802519. 9 x 12 inches.