Category Archives: piano + violin

If we hadn’t had the chance… the rediscovery of a new Prokofiev source

Posted on August 12, 2024 by Peter Jost

Fans of so-called ‘true crime’ formats, reporting, that is, about … Continue reading →

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‘Free, but lonely’ – an extraordinary sonata and its new edition

Posted on November 13, 2023 by Dominik Rahmer

Our new Urtext edition HN 1572 introduced in today’s blog … Continue reading →

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An Urtext edition of Elgar’s Violin Chansons: What does an editor do when there is nothing to edit?

Posted on November 22, 2021 by Norbert Müllemann

The question posed in the title of my blog post … Continue reading →

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Is that still Urtext? On an often played variant in Sarasate’s “Carmen Fantasy”

Posted on March 18, 2019 by Peter Jost

To this day, the success of a new stage work … Continue reading →

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From sketch to first edition: the (almost) seamless source documentation of Edward Elgar’s violin sonata

Posted on October 15, 2018 by Norbert Müllemann

Many Urtext editions and their sources cross the desk of … Continue reading →

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

Posted on November 28, 2016 by Peter Jost

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

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At full length – finally, an Urtext edition of Tchaikovsky’s unabridged Valse-Scherzo

Posted on October 31, 2016 by Dominik Rahmer

Tchaikovsky and the violin – surely everyone first thinks here … Continue reading →

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Henry Vieuxtemps’s 5th Violin Concerto newly outfitted – Interview with Marie Cornaz and Ray Iwazumi

Posted on March 7, 2016 by Peter Jost

Among the just about one hundred compositions that the violin … Continue reading →

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“You can count on me” – Debussy’s arrangement of “Minstrels” for violin and piano

Posted on January 5, 2015 by Peter Jost

Arrangements have on occasion already come up for discussion in … Continue reading →

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‘It is G! Bravo, and a thousand thanks.’ Günter Henle’s guestbook (and a wrong note in Beethoven)

Posted on September 15, 2014 by Wolf-Dieter Seiffert

The violinist Yehudi Menuhin was without question amongst Günter Henle’s … Continue reading →

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