Debussy’s frequently-performed orchestral works need a reliable Urtext edition, one which also incorporates performing traditions. The editions by Douglas Woodfull-Harris for Bärenreiter fulfil this need.

In 1958 Jean Barraqué composed music for a project for the ‘Theatre of the Absurd’ which never made it to the stage. 60 years later it is now finally receiving its première in Vienna.

As the repertoire of Janáček’s symphonic compositions is not extensive, two new arrangements of his works represent a welcome addition to this repertoire.

It is well worth rediscovering Gabriel Fauré’s orchestral works and concertante pieces. And here, the Urtext editions from Bärenreiter’s Complete Edition can help.

Philipp Maintz has composed hängende gärten for large orchestra for the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin – an evocative allusion to the gardens of Babylon which Nebuchadnezzar II had built for his wife Semiramis. “It is precisely this image which for me best fits with the idea of this orchestral piece”, says the composer: “a park in which you can plant, garden, tend and see plants growing (yes, actually write ‘music from music’) – yet also a ‘garden of longing’ in which things should flower beautifully, but also run wild.” The first performance is on 28 May 2017 in the Philharmonie Berlin conducted by Christoph Eschenbach.

Bärenreiter Praha is publishing the A minor Violin Concerto and the Slavonic Rhapsodies, two works which urgently needed new editions.