With his “sinfonia concertante”, Beat Furrer pursues one of the central ideas of his clarinet quintet “intorno al bianco” and reinterprets it within the orchestral soundscape. The first performance takes place in Basel on 7 November 2026.

After the great success of “Superorganisms” in Tokyo, the NHK Symphony Orchestra and several other orchestras have jointly commissioned Miroslav Srnka to compose a new Cello Concerto. In it, the interplay between solo cello and orchestra is devoted to the phenomenon of smoke.

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.