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.

The 4th Symphony and the Epic of Gilgamesh“: The Bohuslav Martinů Complete Edition begins with these two volumes. The aim of the edition is to make the Czech composer’s works, which are scattered throughout the world, available in exemplary editions.

(30.4.2015) This year not one, but two opera volumes from the Halle Handel Edition will be put to the test at both the Handel Festivals in Germany. The Göttingen Festival opens on 15 May 2015 with a new production of Agrippina directed by Laurence Dale and conducted by Laurence Cummings. John E. Sawyer is responsible for the long-awaited new edition. The performance material contains the Venetian version from the 1709 premiere, as well as additional alternative music numbers or numbers not used then. The Halle Festival follows on 5 June 2015 with a new production of the seldom-performed opera Lucio Cornelio Silla of 1713, which Terence Best has edited for the HHA. The Handel Festival Orchestra is conducted by Enrico Onofri, and the director is Stephen Lawless. Two days later, on 7 June 2015, Fabio Biondi conducts his Ensemble “Europa Galante” in a concert performance of Handel’s last stage work Imeneo, with a top-class line-up of soloists. The Dublin version of 1742 will be performed, which Donald Burrows reconstructed in 2002 for the relevant HHA volume.

Schubert’s music for the play Rosamunde is now one of his best-known compositions. But it was almost lost. The New Schubert Edition now presents the work in an authoritative version.

Cavalli’s Orione is great fun, precisely because the opera differs from what we might expect from a mid-17th century work. The Urtext edition published as part of the Cavalli Complete Edition by Bärenreiter offers a starting-point for entertaining performances.