Category Archives: Instrumentation

‘Fontana’s version’ – genuine Chopin?

A glance at the table of contents in our Urtext … Continue reading

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Hit and miss? – A purportedly wrong note in Beethoven’s Sonata op. 14 no. 2

For almost ten years now I’ve been working with Murray … Continue reading

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Going down, coming up or on the up and up? – stumbling block in Erik Satie’s ‘2ème Gymnopédie’

At first sight Urtext editions of Satie’s piano music do … Continue reading

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Getting the accents right. On the Rondo theme in Schubert’s “Arpeggione” Sonata (3rd movement)

Tabea Zimmermann, the fabulous violist, writes:

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Debussy: to finger or not to finger…? Why we are adding fingering in the “Études”

In summer 1915 in the solitude of Pourville, the small … Continue reading

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How to drive the devil out of a waltz or: Liszt’s Mephisto Waltz for everybody?

It’s still ringing in your ears, this warhorse for orchestra … Continue reading

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On the lookout for the lost measure: Bach’s C-major Prelude from the Well-Tempered Clavier I

Those in the know among our readers will be aware … Continue reading

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The “Creation” starting from scratch: Joseph Haydn’s sketches in the Complete Edition

It is probably well enough known that in the G. … Continue reading

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Curiosity pays off. The genesis of Maurice Ravel’s piano ‘Sonatine’

In 2011 when I began preparing a new edition of … Continue reading

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How an original Mozart A flat escaped from the dust. On the slow movement of the C- minor Piano Sonata K. 457

Very vividly I recall the Mozart sensation of the year … Continue reading

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