Zadok the Priest and The King shall rejoice were composed in 1727 on the occasion of the coronation of George II. Since then, they have gone on to become extremely popular choral concert pieces throughout the world.

Handel’s opera Sosarme of 1732 will be performed at the Handel Festival in Halle for the first time using the Halle Handel Edition.

In their search for Baroque rarities, the Schwetzingen Festival has made a real find with Francesco Cavalli, whose opera Veremonda, L’Amazzone di Aragona, with its mastery of exoticism, has never previously been performed in Germany. Using the critical new edition by Wendy Heller (Opere di Franceso Cavalli) published by Bärenreiter, Concerto Köln performs, conducted by the Argentinian early music specialist Gabriel Garrido. Amélie Niermeyer directs in this co-production with the Staatstheater Mainz. The first performance in Schwetzingen is on 29 April, and the first in Mainz follows on 20 June 2016.

Amongst the sumptuous riches of Bohuslav Martinů’s ingenuity, there are original chamber music works for larger forces. A new volume in the Complete Edition now makes these available.

The source material for Bach’s Mass in B minor is complicated. In order to create a practical performance version, compromises had to be made. Uwe Wolf describes how he approached his edition.

Cavalli’s Il Xerse was one of the most successful operas of its day. Now, the turbulent, semi-tragic, semi-comic work is published in its Italian and Paris versions as part of the Cavalli edition.

Carlo Gesualdo was regarded as the avant-gardist of his time. But even now it is difficult to obtain reliable editions of his works. The New Gesualdo Edition will change this.