Composed at a difficult time, and not clearly belonging to any one genre: nevertheless, Maurice Ravel’s “La Valse” is now firmly established in the symphonic repertoire. The Bärenreiter edition sets a new standard.

With the Ninth Symphony, a new chapter of publishing history began for Bärenreiter in 1996. Today, the editions by Jonathan Del Mar and others have become standard in the music world – and this will be the case for the 2027 anniversary year.

George Frideric Handel’s last two anthems have now been published in their entirety in the Halle Handel Edition, enabling performances to be given from authoritative materials.

Franz Schubert’s Mass in G, written when he was seventeen, was a great success for the young composer. Now an authoritative new edition complete with practical performing material has been published in the Complete Edition.

Patricia Kopatchinskaja is the soloist in Luboš Fišer’s Violin Concerto at the “Prague Spring Festival” – the final work of this unconventional composer who defended the “right to repeatability”. Bärenreiter Praha was invited to create the performance material by the Festival.

Antonín Dvořák’s song cycle “Cigánské melodie” (Gypsy Songs) op. 55 has long held a firm place in the art song repertoire. A new orchestration by the Montreal composer and conductor Daniel Black now makes this popular work available for performance with orchestra.

Andrea Lorenzo Scartazzini has been invited by the Bremer Philharmoniker to write a work for their 200th anniversary. It addresses the earthly in the sense of an approach to human life here.