By a happy coincidence, works by three composers from the renowned British music publisher Faber Music are being premiered on three consecutive evenings. The first of these takes place on 11 October 2011 in Leipzig, when the Gewandhaus Orchestra and its music director Riccardo Chailly perform Colin Matthews’ Grand Barcarolle. This is followed on 12 October by the Robert Schumann Philharmonie Chemnitz, who gives the premiere of the orchestral work Wouivres by the Dresden composer Torsten Rasch. The orchestra’s music director Frank Beermann conducts. Jonathan Harvey evokes nothing less than a global ethic in his new full-length choral-orchestral work Weltethos. This receives its premiere on 13 October in the Berlin Philharmonie with the Rundfunkchor Berlin and Berliner Philharmoniker, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle.

Janáček’s Glagolitic Mass has an extremely complicated genesis and presents an intricate set of problems for an editor. Now, an authoritative edition has been published as part of the complete edition.

A scholarly-critical edition of Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem is an editorial adventure, since the composer expanded the work several times after the premiere of the “small” version of 1888. The edition in the new Fauré complete edition offers a convincing solution.

Christopher Hogwood edits Mendelssohn’s overtures and symphonies for Bärenreiter. In this article he reports on the problems associated with the sources, and the conclusions for his edition.

“Something wonderful which suddenly appears before you.” The picture of the “beautiful vision” is a metaphor for the aura of sound created in Matthias Pintscher’s Violin Concerto Mar’eh. The chamber music-like transparency is now further unfolded in a version for violin and ensemble. The Ensemble intercontemporain gives the premiere of this version on 23 March 2016 in the Paris Philharmonie with Hae-Sun Kang (violin). The orchestral version can be heard before on 10–11 March in Geneva with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, also conducted here by the composer. The soloist is Renaud Capuçon.

Charlotte Seither has been commissioned to write Recherche sur le fond for the Ensemblia Mönchengladbach Festival. It is an orchestral work which examines polyphonic linearity. “What interests me is the radical quality of a form which is completely at a standstill in itself, and in which everything grows apart, without its architecture having to set down all too evident markers,” says the composer. The Niederrheinische Sinfoniker give the premiere of the work, conducted by Graham Jackson, on 10 June in Mönchengladbach. Seither’s All’aperto for 16-part chamber choir is performed on 7 and 9 July by the SWR Stuttgart Vocal Ensemble conducted by Celso Antunes at the RheinVokal Festival in Koblenz, and then in Stuttgart.