Often used, and yet unclear to many. “Urtext” is an ambivalent concept which can mean many different things. Beethoven editor Jonathan Del Mar explains which principles he follows.

Symphonies, concertos, string quartets, piano sonatas: Jonathan Del Mar’s Beethoven editions are convincing from the first to the last note.

For the Beethoven anniversary year 2020 Charlotte Seither has been commissioned to write a composition for chamber orchestra for the German Orchestra Competition. It is called “Ferne Begegnung”.

A German opera in a cosmopolitan spirit, that is Gaspare Spontini’s opera “Agnes von Hohenstaufen” premiered in 1827 in Berlin. Now the Theater Erfurt is taking on this spectacular work.

After his death, Johann Joseph Rösler was almost completely forgotten. But his Piano Concerto in E flat deserves a revival. The new edition from Bärenreiter Praha will contribute to this.

Bärenreiter-Verlag has embarked on a major new project devoted to French music with the launch of a large-scale editorial project to publish the instrumental music of Camille Saint-Saëns in a 36-volume, historical-critical complete edition. The first volume to be published is a new edition of the Symphony in C minor op. 78, known as the Organ Symphony, edited by General Editor Michael Stegemann. The new edition will be launched on 11, 12 and 13 Dezember in the Philharmonie Cologne, performed by the Gürzenich-Orchester Cologne under the baton of its chief conductor François-Xavier Roth. His father Daniel Roth, titular organist at St. Sulpice in Paris, plays the organ. The concert will be broadcast on DeutschlandRadio Kultur, together with an in-depth studio discussion with the editor Michael Stegemann.