Category Archives: Performers

Johann Nepomuk Hummel’s Potpourri op. 94 for Viola and Orchestra – for your kind attention!

To my great joy, this year and last year the … Continue reading

Posted in Antoine Tamestit, Hummel, Johann Nepomuk, Potpourri op. 94 (Hummel), Tabea Zimmermann | Leave a comment

More or less – Bartók’s well-regulated markings of his piano works

To continue my last blog with an overview of our … Continue reading

Posted in Bartók, Béla, Dénes Várjon, Fingering, Monday Postings, piano solo | Tagged , , | 1 Comment

Non-stop “lombardic” rhythm? On a minute text problem in Mozart’s d-minor String Quartet K. 421

The exceptionally lighthearted D-major Trio of the Menuetto in Mozart’s … Continue reading

Posted in Jerusalem String Quartet, Juilliard Quartet, Monday Postings, Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, rhythm, string quartet, String Quartet K. 421 (W.A. Mozart) | Tagged , , | 5 Comments

Editions also have their histories. The revision of César Franck’s violin sonata

The question of why from time to time editions in … Continue reading

Posted in articulation, autograph, dynamics, first edition, Franck, César, Monday Postings, new source, piano + violin, Urtext, Violin Sonata (Franck), Yehudi Menuhin | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Anton Webern: Now also “in blue”!

We are always welcoming new composers to our Henle catalogue. … Continue reading

Posted in autograph, G. Henle Publishers, Glenn Gould, Monday Postings, piano solo, Urtext, Variations op. 27 (Webern), Webern, Anton | Tagged , , , | 1 Comment

All good Viennese come in threes: Dittersdorf, Hoffmeister and Vanhal

With our most recent Urtext edition of Johann Baptist Vanhal’s … Continue reading

Posted in articulation, copy, double bass, Double Bass Concerto (Vanhal), Monday Postings, Tobias Glöckler, Vanhal, Johann Baptist | Tagged , , , | Comments Off on All good Viennese come in threes: Dittersdorf, Hoffmeister and Vanhal

“… more or less at the most extreme limit of what can be achieved on the piano”: Busoni arranges Bach

The second edition naming the two composers, Bach · Busoni, … Continue reading

Posted in Bach, Johann Sebastian, Busoni, Ferruccio, Chorale Preludes (Johann Sebastian Bach), Monday Postings, piano solo, transcription, variant reading, Vladimir Horowitz | Tagged | 2 Comments

The Trill of Doom – The pianist András Schiff’s revelatory study of Schubert’s final sonata

By guest author Alex Ross[1] “What other work is so … Continue reading

Posted in András Schiff, articulation, Composers, Monday Postings, piano solo, Piano Sonata B-Flat D 960 (Schubert), Schubert, Franz | Leave a comment

What’s new with Liszt’s b-minor sonata

  With barely concealed exasperation Clara Schumann writes on 25 … Continue reading

Posted in accent, autograph, Claudio Arrau, copy, dynamics, facsimile, first edition, Liszt, Franz, Marc-André Hamelin, Monday Postings, new source, notation, piano solo, Piano Sonata b-minor (Liszt), revision, Urtext | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

A Bohemian in America: Is Dvořák’s String Quartet in F Major wrongly accented?

Antonín Dvořák, director of the National Conservatory of Music in … Continue reading

Posted in accent, articulation, autograph, Dvořák, Antonín, first edition, G. Henle Publishers, Monday Postings, notation, Pražák Quartett, string quartet, String Quartet F major op. 96 (American Quartet) (Dvořák) | Tagged , , , , | 2 Comments