Many discrepancies have arisen over two centuries in editions of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto in C. The new edition by Jonathan Del Mar resolves these.

Jonathan Del Mar, editor of the nine Beethoven symphonies, has now turned his attentions to Czech music. His edition of Antonín Dvořák’s Cello Concerto in B minor combines the advantages of a completely authoritative Urtext edition with all the practical requirements of soloist and orchestra.

Beethoven’s two violin romances are popular early works which are a mainstay of the repertoire. Jonathan Del Mar has now created new editions of them, and as part of the process, included practical performing tips in the Urtext edition.

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.

The Alte Oper Frankfurt is devoting its traditional composer portrait for the opening of the new season this year to the renowned English composer George Benjamin. Key works from his output, including the chamber opera Into the Little Hill, will be presented by the Ensemble Modern, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Junge Deutsche Philharmonie and the Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester in September and October. A symposium for and with the composer takes place on 17 September under the title “Sometime voices”, also in the Alte Oper. George Benjamin is composer-in-residence at the Klangspuren Festival in Schwaz in Tyrol, Austria, this autumn (8 - 24 September).

Zaïs, the fairy-story opera, now published in the complete edition of Rameau’s works “Opera Omnia Rameau”, is characterized by daring musical experiments and the theme of freemasonry.