Violin

July–December 2025

• Marcel Tusch: Three Pieces for violin and piano, chamber music crossover, score and part, self-published, musikfaktur.de
• Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Early Pieces for violin and piano, edited by Birgit Müller, EB 9556, €19.90, Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden
• Ailbhe McDonagh: It's a violin thing; Book 1, 19 distinctive pieces for beginners up to grade 4, BH 13802; Book 2, 15 distinctive pieces for players of grade 4-8, BH 13803; audio resources and piano accompaniment, €18.00 each, Boosey & Hawkes (Schott), London
• Bohuslav Martinů: Romance for violin and piano H 186 bis, edited by Natálie Krátká, BA 11581, €10.50, Bärenreiter, Kassel
• Friedrich Theodor Fröhlich: Duo for Piano and Violin obligato (7th Violin Sonata), edited by Johannes Vigfusson, first edition, score and part, IFTFG-05, Int. Friedrich-Theodor-Fröhlich-Gesellschaft, Brugg, happy-society.com

January-June 2025

• Joachim Raff: Sonata No. 1 in E minor for violin and piano, edited by Franziska Gallusser and Lion Gallusser, EB 9386, € 26.90, Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden
• Georg Philipp Telemann: 12 Fantasias TWV 40:14-25 for violin solo, edited by Kolja Lessing, EB 9466, € 17.90, Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden
• Ludwig Schunke: Easy little variations on "Ah vous dirai-je maman" for piano and violin, edited by Joachin Draheim, (= Musik in Baden-Württenberg, Noten, Band 4), om 345, Ortus Musikverlag, Beeskow 2025
• Sergei Prokofiev: Sonata No. 2 in D major for violin and piano op. 94a, edited by Viktoria Zora, HN 1624, € 36.00, G. Henle, Munich

July-December 2024

• Nicola Matteis: Second Book of Ayrs, for violin and basso continuo, London 1676, edited by Carlo Maria Scnadolo, EW 1041, € 29.80, Edition Walhall, Magdeburg
• Sergei Prokofiev: Five Melodies op. 35a for violin and piano, edited by Fabian Czolbe, HN1539, € 13.00, G. Henle, Munich
  >>> Review by Walter Amadeus Ammann
• Aleksey Igudesman: Outside the Box, 10 Virtuoso Pieces, for violin solo, UE 38146, € 29.95, Universal Edition, Vienna
• Henri Vieuxtemps: Tarantella op. 22 No. 5a for violin and orchestra, edited by Olaf Adler, first edition; score, OCT-10371, Fr. 40.60; piano version, OCT-10371a, Fr. 29.50; Edition Kunzelmann, Adliswil
  >>> Review by Walter Amadeus Ammann

January-June 2024

• Arnold Schönberg: Phantasy for Violin with Accopaniment of the Piano op. 47, edited by Eike Fess, HN 1171, € 18.00, G. Henle, Munich
• Giovanni Battista Viotti, Violin Concerto No. 22 A minor, edited by Maren Minuth, piano reduction by Heiko Stralendorff, HN 1øø579, € 22.00, G. Henle, Munich
• Richard Strauss: Sonata in E flat major for violin and piano op. 18, after the text of the Critical Edition , UE 38 126, € 29.95, Universal Edition, Vienna
• Edvard Grieg: Complete Works for Violin and Pianoedited by Ernst-Günter Heinemann, Einar Steen-Nøkleberg (op. 8, 13, 22/2), Egon Voss (op. 45), HN 1164, € 39.00, G. Henle, Munich

July-December 2023

• Hans Gál: Concerto for violin and small orchestra op. 39, edited by Eva Fox-Gál and Anthony Fox, piano reduction by the composer, EB 9457, € 30.90, Breitkopf & Härtel
  >>> Review by Walter Amadeus Ammann
• Aleksey Igudesman: More Violin & Viola & more, for violin and viola, UE 38123, € 22.50, Universal Edition, Vienna
• Magdalena Micková: Thirty melodies with rhymes for the youngest violinists, H 8060, € 12.95, Bärenreiter, Prague
• Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonatas for violin and piano, Volume 1edited by Ulrich Leisinger, UT 50154, € 44.95, Wiener Urtext (Schott/Universal Edition)
• Antonín Dvořák: Violin Concerto in A minor op. 53, edited by Peter Jost, piano reduction by Johannes Umbreit, HN 1597, € 21.50, G. Henle, Munich
• Gasparo Fritz: VI Sonata a Violino o Flauto Traversiere solo col Bassoedited by Michael Biehl and Claire Genewein, SG010, Fr. 54.00, Schmid & Genewein, Zurich
  >>> Review by Claudia Weissbarth

January-June 2023

• Vahid Matejkos: Shanty Play-Alongs, twelve shanties to play along to for violin, art. no. 20306G, with CD and online access, € 16.95, Alfred Music, Cologne
• Henri Seiffert: Concertino in the first position, for violin and piano, JO 53-01, Schott, Mainz
• Peter Tchaikovsky: Works for violin and pianoedited by Alexander Komarov, HN961, G. Henle, Munich
• Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst: "Erlkönig" (after Schubert) for violin solo, edited by Ingolf Turban, HN 1585, G. Henle, Munich
• Lili Boulanger: Complete Violin Works, for violin and piano, edited by Elisabeth Weinzierl and Edmund Wächter, VLB 232, € 18.50, Schott, Mainz
  >>> Review by Walter Amadeus Ammann
• Old Schwyz violin dances. The dance book by Anton Hotz, Höfe/March around 1830, edited by Christoph Greuter and Brigitte Bachmann-Geiser, order no. 1069, Mülirad, Altdorf
• Camille Saint-Saëns: Sonata No. 1 for violin and piano in D minor op. 75, edited by Fabien Guilloux and François de Médicis, BA 10957, € 31.95, Bärenreiter, Kassel
• Id.: Sonata No. 2 in E flat major op. 102, BA 10958, € 28.95
  >>> Review by Walter Amadeus Ammann

Viola

July–December 2025

• Johann Sebastian Bach: Three Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin, arranged for Solo Viola BWV 1001–1006, edited by Chung Park, BA 05276, $24.95, Bärenreiter, Kassel

January-June 2025

• Lawrence Axelrod: Sonata breve for viola and piano, score, PAN 1116, € 20.00, Pan-Verlag, Kassel

July-December 2024

• Klaus Miehling: Two chorale arrangements ("Jesu, meine Freude" and "Ach wie flüchtig, abch wie nichtig") for viola and organ manualiter, score and part, EW 979, € 10.00, Edition Walhall, Magdeburg

January-June 2024

• Heinz Holliger: Alèh Stavì, An autumn leaf for Hanna Gaifman (in memoriam Eliska and Gideon Klein), version for viola solo, VAB 109, Schott, Mainz

July-December 2023

• Aleksey Igudesman: More Violin & Viola & more, for violin and viola, UE 38123, € 22.50, Universal Edition, Vienna
• Johannes Brahms: Sonata for clarinet (viola) and pianoedited by Hans Gal, EB 9440, € 14.90, Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden

January-June 2023

• Johann Sebastian Bach: Six suites for violoncello solo BWV 1007-1012, arr. for viola solo by Chung Park, BA 5272, € 19.95, Bärenreiter, Kassel
• Georg Philipp Telemann: Fantaisies pour la Basse de Violle TWV 40 :26-37, arranged for viola by Brian A. Schiele, EW 1150, Edition Walhall, Magdeburg
  >>> Review by Walter Amadeus Ammann
• Erwin Jacobs: A musical flower meadow, 10 duets for 2 violas, VV 156, Fr. 18.00, Viva Viola, Winterthur

Violoncello

January-June 2025

• Johann Benjamin Gross (1808-1848): Larghetto and Variations op. 28, for violoncello and orchestra, edited by Folckert Lüken-Isberner, score, PAN 2062, € 28.00, Pan, Kassel
• Jacques Offenbach: Violoncelle et piano Vol. 2 (Musette, Chant des Mariniers galants d'après Rameau, Tambourin d'après Rameau), edited by Jean-Christophe Keck, BB 3534, € 24.50, Boosey & Hawkes / Bote & Bock, Berlin
• Friedrich Dotzauer: Etudes for violoncello solo from op. 47, 107, 20, 126, 160 and "Méthode de violoncelle", booklet 1, BA 12101, € 24.95, Bärenreiter, Kassel
• Sergei Prokofiev: Sonata in C major op. 119 for violoncello and piano, edited by Annette Oppermann, HN 1625, € 33.00, G. Henle, Munich
• Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer: 40 exercises for 2 violoncellos from the Cello School op. 126 (1833); Booklet 1: 24 scales through two octaves, EB 9417, € 16.90; Booklet 2: 16 duos in neck positions, EB 9418, € 17.90; Set EB 9492, € 29.90; Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden

July-December 2024

• Ermenegildo De Cinque (1701-1773): 9 Sonatas for 2 violoncellos (violoncello and b. c.) from " 50 Sonate per due violoncelli, Libro secondo ", first edition by Boris Atanasov, EW 1186, € 26.50, Edition Walhall, Magdeburg
• Wolfgang Rihm: Two pieces for violoncello and piano, UE 38150, € 14.95, Universal Edition, Vienna
• Arvo Pärt: Two cadenzas for the Violoncello Concerto in C major by Joseph Haydn Hob. VIIb:1, UE 38004, € 14.95, Universal Edition, Vienna
• Sergei Rachmaninoff: Works for violoncello and pianoedited by Daniela Macchione, BA09994, € 34.95, Bärenreiter, Kassel
• Anton Kraft: Concerto No. 1 C major "Seydl" for violoncello solo, 2 oboes, 2 horns and strings, cello concertos of the 18th century edited by Markus Möllenbeck; score, EW 996, € 43.50; piano reduction, EW 1157, € 24.80; Edition Walhall, Magdeburg
  >>> Review by Lehel Donath
• Anton Kraft: Concerto No. 2 C major op. 4 for violoncello solo and orchestra, cello concertos of the 18th century edited by Markus Möllenbeck, score, EW 1031, € 49.80, Edition Walhall, Magdeburg
  >>> Review by Lehel Donath
• Robert Schumann: Concerto in A minor for violoncello and orchestra op. 129, edited by Kate Bennett Wadsworth; score, BA08839, € 46.95; piano reduction, BA08839-90, € 21.95; transcription for violoncello and string quartet, parts BA 10967, € 44.95; Bärenreiter, Kassel

July-December 2023

• Joachim Raff: Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra No. 1 in D minoredited by Andrea Wiesli and Jonas Kreienbühl, score PB 5715, € 59.90, Breitkopf & Härtel
  >>>Review by Lehel Donath
• Five first steps to playing the cello with 35 sometimes quite crazy duets with cello and piano, author and composer Maximilian Ebert, Fuchsbau-Verlag, Regensburg

January-June 2023

• Martin Berteau (formerly attributed to Giuseppe Sammartini): Sonata in G major op. 1/3 for violoncello and piano (2 violoncellos), edited by Beverley Ellis, CB 298, € 18.00, Schott, Mainz
• Laurent Menager: Prière du soir, Romance sans paroles, for violoncello and piano, score and parts, EM 2633, € 12.00, Merseburger, Kassel
• Dietmar Berger: The Story of the Grenadier and the Lady, Folk-Rock-Suite for 2 Cellos, EW 1238, Edition Walhall, Magdeburg
• Emilie Mayer: Sonata in C major for violoncello and piano, edited by Barbara Gabler, score and parts, fue 1035, € 49.00, Furore-Edition, Kassel
• Johann Sebastian Bach: Six suites for violoncello solo BWV 1007-1012, source-critical edition in three volumes by Jonas Seeberg, EW 1188, Edition Walhall, Magdeburg
• Carl Friedrich Abel: Concerto No. 1 in B flat major WKO 52 for violoncello and orchestra, edited by Markus Möllenbeck, EW 1254, Edition Walhall, Magdeburg

Double bass

July-December 2023

• Charlotte Mohrs: Thumb position. Exercises and pieces for the introduction to the thumb position on the double bass, piano accompaniment for download, EC 23581, € 19.50, Schott, Mainz
  >>> Review by Heike Schäfer
• Serge Koussevitzky: Double Bass Concerto op. 3, edited by Tobias Glöckler, piano reduction by Christoph Sobanski: HN 1451, € 22.00; study score: HN 7451. € 18.00; G. Henle, Munich
• Thomas Grossmann: Walking ABC. Bass playing in jazz, rock and pop for electric bass and double bass, Edition Hug 11789, with audio files for download, Hug Musikverlage, Zurich

January-June 2023

• Toshio Hosokawa: BAI for double bass solo, SJ 1210, Schott, Mainz
• Gerd Reinke: Enjoy the double bass, Double bass school (with piano accompaniment); Volume 1 (1/2 - 2 ½ register): BB 3665; Volume 2 (3-5 position): 3667; each with online audio, Boosey& Hawkes/Bote & Bock, Berlin

Flute

July–December 2025

• Frank Martin: Petite Complainte, arranged for flute and piano by Rien de Reede, GH 11822, €23.00, Hug Musikverlage, Manching
• Vilém Blodek: Concerto in D majorMajor for flute and orchestra, flute part arranged by Lukas M. Vytacil, piano reduction by Petr Koronthaly, BA 11737-90, €19.95, Bärenreiter, Prague
• Helene Schulthess: 12 folk dances in the Swiss style for two flutes and piano, with haikus by Stefan Blankertz, self-published, helene-schulthess.ch

January-June 2025

• Carl Reinecke: Ballad for flute and orchestra in D minor, edited by Henrik Wiese; score, PB 5749, € 42.90; piano reduction by the composer, EB 9475, € 21.90; Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden
• Gergely Ittzés: The Flute Expedition, 42 imaginative studies on a voyage of discovery for extended techniques and unusual sounds on the flute, Vol. 2 (No. 22-42), ED 23843, € 29.00, Schott, Mainz

July-December 2024

• Johann Sebastian Bach: Four Sonatas for flute and basso continuo/obligato harpsichord BWV 1034, 1035, 1030, 1032, arranged for two flutes by Cathrin Ambach, playing score, BA 10961, Bärenreiter, Kassel
• Johann Sebastian Bach: Three Sonatas for flute and basso continuo/obligato harpsichord BWV 1033, 1031, 1020, arranged for two flutes by Cathrin Ambach, playing score, BA 10962, Bärenreiter, Kassel
• Gioachino Rossini: Andante and Allegro, for flute and organ arranged by Harald Feller, EW 1266, € 12.80, Edition Walhall, Magdeburg
• Tilmann Dehnhard: 99 Tiny Tunes for solo flute; UE 38381 with online audio, € 24.95, Universal Edition, Vienna
• Barbara Gisler-Haase: The new Magic Flute, Flute school from the beginning with online audio; Volume 1, UE 38001; Volume 2, UE 38002; € 29.95 each, Universal Edition, Vienna
• Marin Marais: Les Folies d'Espagne, arranged for 2 flutes (transverse flutes) by Adrian Wehlte, EW 1289, € 16.50, Edition Walhall, Magdeburg

July-December 2023

• Christmas carols from all over the world, for transverse flute solo or duet, VHR 13504 with audio stream, Holzschuh, Manching
• Katharina Flaig: On the road with the flute. Lantern light and Christmas magic, VHR 3675, Holzschuh, Manching
• Irish Folk Tunes for Flute, Volume 1, 71 Traditional Pieces, edited by Patrick Steinbach, ED 13360D, € 20.50, Schott, Mainz
• Tilmann Dehnhard: Postcards, for flute, UE 38378, € 16.95, Universal Edition, Vienna
• Gasparo Fritz: VI Sonata a Violino o Flauto Traversiere solo col Bassoedited by Michael Biehl and Claire Genewein, SG010, Fr. 54.00, Schmid & Genewein, Zurich
  >>> Review by Claudia Weissbarth

January-June 2023

• Victoria Borisova-Ollas: Four Pieces for flute solo, UE 38384, € 16.95, Universal Edition, Vienna

Recorder

July–December 2025

• Barbara Ertl: My first flute notes, Gentle Introduction to the Soprano Recorder, Volume 1, VHR 3676, €19.90, Holzschuh, Manching

July-December 2024

• Georg Philipp Telemann: Concerto in G major TWV 43:G6, for treble recorder, oboe, violin and basso continuo, edited by Klaus Hofmann, EW 1264, € 19.80, Edition Walhall, Magdeburg
• Tilman Susato: 12 easy dances for soprano recorder and piano, edited by Martin-Christoph Dieterich, published by Barbara Hintermeier, SE 1056, with audio material, Schott, Mainz

January-June 2024

• Raphael Benjamin Meyer: Solis Canticum, 12 pieces for recorder quartet SAAT or TBBGb, RM 35, Basilisk Edition, Basel
• Raphael Benjamin Meyer: Lunae Canticum, 12 short pieces for quartet (low recorders ATBB, viols, strings or broken consort), RM 00, Basilisk Edition, Basel

July-December 2023

• Thomas Cross: Synopsis Musicaefor alto recorder solo, edited by Raphael B. Meyer, RM 39, Basilisk-Edition, Basel
• Sarah Jeffery: The Wellerman. Variations on a sea shantyfor soprano or tenor recorder and piano, with online material, SE 1057D, € 9.50, Schott, Mainz

Oboe/English horn/bassoon

July–December 2025

• Pēteris Vasks: Concerto for English Horn and Orchestra, Piano reduction by the composer and solo part, OBB 63, €45.00, Schott, Mainz
• Peter Wastall: Learn as you play – Oboe, BH 13964, $166.00, Boosey & Hawkes (Schott), London

January-June 2025

• José Siqueira: Three Etudes for oboe and piano, DV 31003, € 24.90, Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden
• Alessandro Marcell: Concerto in D minor for oboe strings and basso continuo, piano reduction, Musica rara MR 2307, € 18.90, Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden

July-December 2024

• Carl Friedrich Abel: Sinfonia Concertante No. 2 D major, for oboe, violin, violoncello and orchestra, edited by Markus Möllenbeck; score, EW 1268, € 46.50; piano reduction, EW 126, € 34.50; Edition Walhall, Magdeburg
• Johann Gottlieb Graun: Trio in F major for oboe (flauto traverso, violin), violin and basso continuo, newly arranged by Klaus Hofmann, EW 1280, € 19.80, Edition Walhall, Magdeburg
• Ernst Christian Hesse (1676-1762): Concerto in B flat major à 3 for oboe (violin), viola da gamba (viola) and basso continuo, first edition by Thomas Fritzsch, EW 1284, € 17.50, Edition Walhall, Magdeburg
• Josef Fiala: Divertimento in E flat major for cor anglais and string trio arranged by Michel Rosset, EW 1149, € 21.80, Edition Walhall, Magdeburg
• Franz Schubert: Arpeggione, Sonata in A minor D. 821, for cor anglais and string trio arranged by Michel Rosset, EW 1227, € 28.50, Edition Walhall, Magdeburg

January-June 2023

• Grade by Grade Oboe, Grade 1selected by Janet Way, with audio, BH 13990, € 17.00, Boosey & Hawkes (Schott), London
• Domenico Cimarosa: Concerto in C major for solo oboe, 2 horns, 2 violins, viola and basso, first edition by Sandro Caldini, score, EW 1200, Edition Walhall, Magdeburg
  >>> Review by Matthias Arter
• Gustave Vogt: Solo de Concert pour le Cor anglais, for cor anglais solo and large orchestra, first edition, reconstruction Michel Rosset, EW 1216, Edition Walhall, Magdeburg
  >>> Review by Matthias Arter
• Florian Bramböck: Afro-Latin Bassoon Duets, Compositions and arrangements for two bassoons, UE 38063, € 1995, Universal Edition, Vienna

Clarinet

July–December 2025

• Sergei Prokofiev: Overture on Hebrew Themes for clarinet, piano, and string quartet, Op. 34, edited by Fabian Czolbe, score and parts, HN1541, $35.00, G. Henle, Munich
• Grade by Grade – Clarinet, Grade 2, selected by Janet Way, BH 13976, €17.00, Boosey & Hawkes (Schott), London
• First Repertoire Pieces for Clarinet, 22 pieces selected and edited by Peter Wastall, BH 13967, $19.00, Boosey & Hawkes (Schott), London

July-December 2024

• Gioachino Rossini: Fantasy for clarinet and organ arranged by Harald Feller, EW 1271, € 16.50, Edition Walhall, Magdeburg

January-June 2024

• Ernesto Cavallini: 30 Capricci for Solo Clarinet op. 1-5, edited by Andras Lehnert, KLB 105, € 24.50, Schott, Mainz
• Victoria Borisova-Ollas: Daybreak on Skeppsholmen for clarinet, UE 38 380, € 14.95, Universal Edition, Vienna

July-December 2023

• Johannes Brahms: Sonata for clarinet (viola) and pianoedited by Hans Gal, EB 9440, € 14.90, Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden
• Joachim Johow: New Klezmer Tunes, 16 Pieces for Clarinet and Piano (Guitar/Accordion), ED 23389, with Online-Material, Schott, Mainz
  >>> Review by Martin Sonderegger

January-June 2023

• Alexy Shor: Verdiana, Fantasy on themes by Giuseppe Verdifor clarinet (alto saxophone) and piano, EB 8980, € 29.90, Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden

Saxophone

July–December 2025

• Alexander Glazunov: Saxophone Quartet in B-flat major Op. 109, edited by the Arcis Saxophone Quartet; parts, HN 1046, $22.00; study score, HN 7046, $11.00; G. Henle, Munich

January-June 2025

• Jörg Widmann: 7 Capricci for saxophone quartet, score and parts, ED 23565, € 89.00, Schott, Mainz

July-December 2024

• James Rae: 30 New Studies for solo saxophone, UE 21849, € 18.95, Universal Edition, Vienna

January-June 2024

• Victoria Borisova-Ollas: Daybreak on Skeppsholmen for soprano saxophone, UE 38 379, € 14.95, Universal Edition, Vienna

July-December 2023

• Lee Konitz Solo Transcriptions, for Alto Saxophone transcribed by Alex Oliverio, ADV 7161, € 24.50, Advance Music, Mainz
• James Rae: City Snapshots Saxophone, A musical journey for young people, for one or two saxophones (AA/AT/TT), UE 21744, Audio Online, € 17.50, Universal Edition, Vienna

January-June 2023

• Vahid Matejkos: Shanty Play-Alongs, twelve shanties to play along to for soprano, alto and tenor saxophone, art. no. 20303G, with CD and online access, € 18.95, Alfred Music, Cologne
• Neithard Bethke: Ludi Organi, Musical Travel Diary III, Booklet 4, Spiritual on Psalm 137 for tenor saxophone and organ op. 58, No. 4, EM 1938, Edition Merseburger, Kassel

Horn

July–December 2025

• Charles Gounod: Six melodies for the French horn, for horn and piano, edited by Simon Scheiwiller, GM-1981, CHF 29.30, Edition Kunzelmann, Adliswil

July-December 2023

• The Boosey Brass Method, Horn in F, Book 1, ed. by Chris Morgan, BH 13946, € 19.00, Boosey & Hawkes, London

Trumpet/Trombone/Tuba

July–December 2025

• Norbert Weigand: Tuba in folk music. A guide to playing «freely» according to chord symbols, with online audio, D 949, €32.80, Dux, Manching

July-December 2024

• Georg Friedrich Haas: "I can't breathe" for trumpet solo, In memoriam Eric Garner, UE 36965, € 17.95, Universal Edition, Vienna

January-June 2024

• Martin Schädlich : Soul Classics, 14 Soulful Hits & Melodies for Trumpet, ED 22572D, with online material, Schott, Mainz

July-December 2023

• Romantic trumpet duos for 2 trumpets (cornets) and piano, edited by Kirstin Thielemann, ED 23585D, with online material, € 21.50, Schott, Mainz

January-June 2023

• Vahid Matejkos: Shanty Play-Alongs, twelve shanties to play along to for trumpet opt. tenor horn, art. no. 20304G, with CD and online access, € 16.95, Alfred Music, Cologne
• Grade by Grade Oboe, Trumpet 2, selected by Janet Way, with audio, BH 13990, € 17.00, Boosey & Hawkes (Schott), London
• Vahid Matejkos: Shanty Play-Alongs, twelve shanties to play along to for trombone opt. baritone horn in Bb, art. no. 20305G, with CD and online access, € 16.95, Alfred Music, Cologne

Harp

July–December 2025

• Sergei Prokofiev: Complete Works for Solo Harp, Edited by Sophie Gneissl, HN1649, €15.00, G. Henle, Munich

January-June 2024

• Louis Spohr: Fantasy in C minor for harp op. 35, appendix: Fantaisie by Johann Georg Heinrich Backofen, edited by Masumi Nagasawa, BA 10954, € 19.95, Bärenreiter, Kassel
  >>> Review by Sarah O'Brien

January-June 2023

• Claude Debussy: Danses, for harp and bridge orchestra, edited by Peter Jost, study score, HN 7584, G. Henle, Munich
  >>> Review by Sarah O'Brien

Guitar

July–December 2025

• Wieland Harms: Guitar Chord Colors. Modern Harmony for Guitarists Who Really Want to Know, 400 pages, $49.95, order no. 2291G, Alfred Music, Cologne
• K. Mertz – Guitar Works, Vol. 11, 12 Studies & Works, ed. by Graziano Salvoni, ECH 1428, €16.50, Edition Chanterelle/Zimmermann, Mainz
• K. Mertz – Guitar Works, Vol. 12, Seven Opera Fantasies, ed. by Graziano Salvoni, ECH 1429, €24.50, Edition Chanterelle/Zimmermann, Mainz

July-December 2024

• Michael Langer: Acoustic Pop Guitar Solos 6, sheet music and tab, with audio download, D 927, Dux, Manchin 
• Michael Langer and Ferdinand Neges: Play Guitar Powersteps 1, the ideal continuation for every beginner's school, with audio downloads, Dux 3519, Dux, Manching
• Michael Langer and Ferdinand Neges: Play Guitar Powersteps 2, the ideal continuation for every beginner's school, with audio downloads, Dux 3520, Dux, Manching
• Martin Tanner: Simply beautiful - beautifully simple, Beautiful guitar music from the first lesson, self-published, www.einfach-schoen.ch

January-June 2024

• Sami Kajtazaj: 5 shapes for guitar, em 1212, Edition Margaux, Berlin

July-December 2023

• Béla Bartók: Romanian Folk Dances, for guitar arr. by Dario Bisso Sabàdin, UE 38137, € 16.95, Universal Edition, Vienna
• Armin Kulla: A little journey, easy to medium ensemble pieces for 3 to 4 guitars, D 826, with audio stream, Dux, Manching
  >>> Review by Werner Joos
• Christmas carols from all over the world, for guitar solo, VHR 13510, Holzschuh, Manching
• Martin Kuhnle: The campfire guitar without sheet music, 75 indispensable songs, D 810, Dux, Manching

January-June 2023

• Franz Schubert: Serenade, Minuet, Waltz, German Dance and Ecossaiseedited and published by Jury Clormann, first edition, BP 2883, Fr. 19.50, Amadeus, Winterthur
  >>> Review by Werner Joos
• The José Tomàs Guitar Anthology, Arrangements for Guitar solo by José Tomàs edited by Pedro Jesus Gomez, ECH 2725, € 22.50, Edition Chanteresse (Zimmermann), Mainz
  >>> Review by Werner Joos

Ukulele

July-December 2024

• Andreas Lutz and Bernhard Bitzel: The ukulele thing, 200 Lieder and songs (lyrics and chord figures), D 342, Dux, Manching
• Martin Rube: The ukulele school for children of pre-school and primary school age, order no. 140, Schuh-Verlag, Gärtringen

July-December 2023

• Circle of fifths for the ukulele, D 1216, Dux, Manching

Mandolin

January-June 2025

• Carl Stamitz: Sonata op. 16 No. 6for two mandolins and mandola (guitar) arranged by Jean-Pierre Yraéta, score with parts, PAN KM 2155, € 22.00, Edition Grenzland, Pan-Verlag, Basel

E-Bass

July–December 2025

• Philipp Rehm: Slap fit, Your slap bass workout for fat grooves, strong technique, and creativity, book and online audio, item no. 20315G, $23.95, Alfred Music, Cologne

July-December 2023

• Philipp Rehm: Bass Matrix. Unlock the secrets of bass grooves, for beginners, advanced and pros even without knowledge of sheet music, book, CD, online audio, art. no. 20281G, Alfred Music, Cologne
• Thomas Grossmann: Walking ABC. Bass playing in jazz, rock and pop for electric bass and double bass, Edition Hug 11789, with audio files for download, Hug Musikverlage, Zurich

Percussion

July–December 2025

• Gerwin Eisenhauer: Boom Boom Chack; Technique & Reading, D 421; Grooves & Fills, D 422; Jazz & Latin, D 423; each with online audio and video links; €19.80 each, Dux, Manching

January-June 2025

• Peter Eötvös: Speaking Drums, Four poems for percussion solo, BAT 60, € 21.00, Schott, Mainz
• Christin Neddens' Creative Flow, The Ultimate Drum Practice Workout, Order No. 20314G, € 22.95, Alfred Music, Cologne

January-June 2024

• Olaf Satzer: Guaranteed drum learning - for children from 5-6 years, 136 p., with online audio tracks, No. 20286G, € 21.95, Alfred Music, Cologne
• Sperie Karas: A Tribute to Charley, 50 rudimental Solos, In honor of my studies with Charley Wilcoxon, 64 p., € 14.95, Alfred Music, Cologne

July-December 2023

• Drumming for beginners, by Rosy, African drum & vocal loops - step by step, D 419, Dux, Manching
• Gerwin Eisenhauer: The Christmas Drum Book 2, D 420, with audio download, Dux, Manching
  >>> Review by Daniel Maggi

January-June 2023

• Jost Nickel: Beginner Book for drums, Book and audio online: Art. no. 20292G, € 24.95, Alfred Music, Cologne
• Elisabeth Amandi: Drumset Safari. With 144 solos around the world, booklet for beginners to professionals in German/English, 136 pages, plus mp3 download, € 24.00, Leu-Verlag, Neusäss
• Marco Kurmann: Step by Step on Drums, Guide for drum lessons, Volume 1, 98 p., € 24.00, Leu-Verlag, Neusäss
  >>> Review by Daniel Maggi
• Sperie Karas: Rock-o-Pation for Today's Drummers, 50 exercises for sight-reading in rock, German/English, 84 p., art. no. 20309G, € 16.95, Alfred Music, Cologne
• Tom Pold: Guaranteed to learn Kalimba, The instruction book for kalimbas with 17 notes in C major, with more than 100 songs, 104 p., art. no. 20294G, € 19.95, Alfred Music, Cologne
• Luigi Nono: Extracts for percussion ensemble, edited by Bernhard Wulff, ED 22904, Schott, Mainz

Handpan

July-December 2024

• Daniel Giordani: Practice pieces for handpan, for slightly advanced players, with online videos, D 920, Dux, Manching

Accordion

July–December 2025

• Slavko Avsenik: 12 Oberkrainer successes for accordion and Bb voice; Volume 1, WILD 20085; Volume 2, WILD 20086; Volume 3, WILD 20087; €21.80 each, Walter Wild, Manching

January-June 2025

• Marion Suter: 30 original compositions for piano or accordion (22 piano solos and 8 arrangements), self-published www.marionsuter.ch (partly recorded on CD: Pianist Marion Suter Vol. 2)
  >>> Review by Yolanda Schibli Zimmermann

July-December 2024

• Songs for Freedom, well-known pop songs arranged for accordion by Waldemar Lang, VHR 1869, Holzschuh, Manchin
• Hans-Günther Kölz: Reflections, well-known classical pieces and original compositions arranged for accordion, VHR 1859, Holzschuh, Manching

January-June 2024

• Sami Kajtazaj: Follow me 1, Music for accordion, self-published, Thal, samikaj.com
• Sami Kajtazaj: Follow me 2, Music for accordion, self-published, Thal, samikaj.com
• Sami Kajtazaj: Follow me 3, Music for accordion, self-published, Thal, samikaj.com

 

Chamber music strings

July–December 2025

• Paul Hindemith: String Quartet No. 1 in C major, Edited from Giselher Schubert's complete edition of Paul Hindemith's works, score and parts, ED 23539, €69.00, Schott, Mainz

January-June 2025

• Johann Benjamin Gross (1808-1848)Variations on a Barcarole op. 24, for 2 violins, viola and violoncello, edited by Folckert Lüken-Isberner, score, PAN 1611, € 36.00, Pan, Kassel
• Johanna Senfter: String Quartet in F sharp minor op. 28, edited by Wolfgang Birtel, score and parts, ED 21076, € 56.00, Schott, Mainz
• Antonín Dvořák: String Quartet No. 11 in C major op. 61, edited by Hartmut Schick; parts: BA 11566, € 18.95; pocket score: TP 00566, € 13.50; Bärenreiter, Prague
• Esther Klein / Michael Dartsch: Together on Strings, 23 song movements for young strings; score, EB 8982, € 29.90; violin 1 + 2, EB 8983, € 12.90; Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden
• Joachim Raff: String Quartets Nos. 6-8 op. 192,  edited by Stefan König, study score, PB 5708, € 39.90, Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden

July-December 2024

• Bela Bartók: String Quartet No. 6edited by László Somfai with the collaboration of Zsombor Németh; set of parts, HN 1426, € 38.00; study score, HN 7426, € 17.00; G. Henle, Munich
• Robert Schumann: Concerto in A minor for violoncello and orchestra op. 129, edited by Kate Bennett Wadsworth, transcription for violoncello and string quartet, parts BA 10967, € 44.95, Bärenreiter, Kassel
• Maurice Ravel: String Quartetedited by Peter Jost; parts, HN 962, € 33.00; study score, HN 9962, € 17.00; G. Henle, Munich

January-June 2024

• Béla Bartók: String Quartet No. 3, edited by Zsombor Németh and László Somfai; parts: HN 1423, € 28.00; study score: SE 7423, € 14.00; G. Henle, Munich
• Béla Bartók: String Quartet No. 4, edited by Zsombor Németh and László Somfai; parts: HN 1424, € 34.00; study score: SE 7424, € 14.00; G. Henle, Munich

July-December 2023

• Theodor Kirchner: Only drops. Very small pieces for string quartetedited by Wolfgang Birtel, SE 1059, Schott, Mainz
• Béla Bartók: String Quartet No. 1 op. 7, edited by László Somfai; parts: HN 1421, € 24.00; study score: HN 7421, € 14.00; G. Henle, Munich
• Béla Bartók: String Quartet No. 2 op. 17, edited by László Somfai; parts: HN 1422, € 24.00; study score: HN 7422, € 14.00; G. Henle, Munich
  >>> Review by Markus Fleck
• Giuseppe Verdi: String Quartet in E minoredited by Anselm Gerhard; parts: HN 1588, € 25.00; study score: HN 7588, € 14.00; G. Henle, Munich
  >>> Review by Markus Fleck

January-June 2023

• Antonin Dvorak: String Quartet No. 12 in F major op. 96 "Amerikanisches", edited by Michael Kube; parts: BA 11538, € 14.95; study score with critical report: TP 00538, € 8.95; Bärenreiter, Prague
• Laurent Menager: Paraphrase pour cordes op. 45, for 2 violins, viola, violoncello and double bass, score and parts, EM 2632, € 29.90, Merseburger, Kassel
  >>> Review by Martin Lehmann
• Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber: Mensa Sonora for violin, 2 violas and basso continuo, Partitas I and II, edited by Markus Eberhardt, EW 1051, Edition Walhall, Magdeburg

Chamber music with piano

July–December 2025

• Michael Töpel: Drawn. Funeral Music for Violin, Violoncello, and Piano, Score and Parts, EM 2172, €20.00, Merseburger, Kassel

January-June 2025

• Camille Saint-Saëns: Septuor in E flat major for trumpet, piano, two violins, viola, violoncello and double bass, edited by Sabina Teller Ratner, score, BA 10966, € 24.50, Bärenreiter, Kassel
• Miklós Rózsa: Quintet for 2 violins, viola, violoncello and piano in F minor op. 2, score and parts, EB 9464, € 79.00, Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden

July-December 2024

• Maurice Ravel: Trio for piano, violin and violoncello, edited by Douglas Woodfull-Harris, BA 10921, € 31.95, Bärenreiter, Kassel
• Tilman Susato: 12 easy dances for soprano recorder and piano, edited by Martin-Christoph Dieterich, published by Barbara Hintermeier, SE 1056, with audio material, Schott, Mainz

January-June 2024

• Evgeny Kissin: Piano trio op. 6, HN 1397, € 28.00, G. Henle, Munich
• Gabriel Fauré: Piano Quartet No. 2 G minor op. 45, edited by Fabian Kolb, HN 1545, 46.00, G. Henle, Munich
• Ludwig van Beethoven: Trios op. 70 for piano, violin and violoncello, edited by Jonathan Del Mar; score and parts, BA 10960, € 42.95, Bärenreiter, Kassel

July-December 2023

• Jean Sibelius: Trio in A minor for violin, violoncello and piano (Havträsk Trio), edited by Folke Gräsbeck, Anna Pulkkis, EB 9448, € 39.90, Breitkopf & Härtel
  >>> Review by Martin Lehmann
• Jean Sibelius: Trio in D major for violin, violoncello and piano (Korpo-Trio), edited by Folke Gräsbeck, Anna Pulkkis, EB 9449, € 39.90, Breitkopf & Härtel
  >>> Review by Martin Lehmann
• Antonín Dvořák: Piano Quartet in E flat major op. 87, edited by Peter Jost, HN1580, € 27.00, G. Henle, Munich

January-June 2023

• Emilie Mayer: Piano trio in E flat major, for violin, violoncello and piano, edited by Katharina Sellheim, score and parts, Fue 10346, Furore Edition, Kassel
  >>> Review by Martin Lehmann
• Ludwig van Beethoven: Trios for piano, violin and violoncello op. 1, edited by Jonathan del Mar, piano score and parts, BA 10943, € 52.00, Bärenreiter, Kassel
• Gabriel Fauré: Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minorop. 15, edited by Fabian Kolb, HN1544, G. Henle, Munich

Chamber music wind instruments

July–December 2025

• Alexander Glazunov: Saxophone Quartet in B-flat major Op. 109, edited by the Arcis Saxophone Quartet; parts, HN 1046, $22.00; study score, HN 7046, $11.00; G. Henle, Munich

January-June 2025

• Johannes Maria Staud: Chasing clouds, dazzling blue! for brass quintet (trumpet in C, trumpet in Bb, Wagner tuba in Bb, also horn in F, trombone, tuba in F), score, EB 9575, € 47.50, Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden

January-June 2023

• Jean Sibelius: Karelia Suite op. 11, for wind ensemble and double bass arranged by Andrew Middleton, score and parts, Musica rara MR 2306, € 45.90, Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden

Chamber music various instruments

July–December 2025

• Sergei Prokofiev: Overture on Hebrew Themes for clarinet, piano, and string quartet, Op. 34, edited by Fabian Czolbe, score and parts, HN1541, $35.00, G. Henle, Munich

January-June 2025

• Adolf Busch: Quintet in C major for flute, violin, 2 violas and violoncello, edited by Jakob Fichert, study score, PB 5590, € 29.90, Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden
• Swiss trios, for recorder, strings or other instruments, based on traditional melodies of the 16th-21st century, arr. by Raphael Benjamin Meyer, RM21, Basilisk Edition, Basel
  >>> Review by Martin Lehmann

July-December 2024

• Josef Fiala: Divertimento in E flat major for cor anglais and string trio arranged by Michel Rosset, EW 1149, € 21.80, Edition Walhall, Magdeburg
• Franz Schubert: Arpeggione, Sonata in A minor D. 821, for cor anglais and string trio arranged by Michel Rosset, EW 1227, € 28.50, Edition Walhall, Magdeburg
• Georg Philipp Telemann: Concerto in G major TWV 43:G6, for treble recorder, oboe, violin and basso continuo, edited by Klaus Hofmann, EW 1264, € 19.80, Edition Walhall, Magdeburg
• Raphael Benjamin Meyer: Advent calendar, 24 pieces for Christmas time for 1 or 2 instruments and chord accompaniment ad lib., incl. play-alongs, RM 11, Basilisk Edition, Basel
• Johann Gottlieb Graun: Trio in F major for oboe (flauto traverso, violin), violin and basso continuo, newly arranged by Klaus Hofmann, EW 1280, € 19.80, Edition Walhall, Magdeburg
• Ernst Christian Hesse (1676-1762): Concerto in B flat major à 3 for oboe (violin), viola da gamba (viola) and basso continuo, first edition by Thomas Fritzsch, EW 1284, € 17.50, Edition Walhall, Magdeburg

January-June 2024

• Erich Schmid: Small house concert. Twelve pieces for various instruments and voice op. 13, texts from "Des Knaben Wunderhorn", first edition by Iris Eggenschwiler, BB 3554, Boosey & Hawkes/Bote & Bock, Berlin
  >>> Review by Martin Lehmann
• Ludwig van Beethoven: Septet in E flat op. 20, for clarinet bassoon, horn, violin, viola, violoncello and double bass, edited by Jonathan Del Mar; parts, BA 10944; study score, TP 944; Bärenreiter, Kassel
  >>> Review by Jakob Hefti

July-December 2023

• Ulrich Kaiser: 12 variations on "Happy Birthday to You" for two melody instruments, MN 510, € 14.90, Breitkopf & Härtel
• Raphael Benjamin Meyer: 12 canons for two melody instruments, RM 05, Basilisk-Edition, Basel

January-June 2023

• Neithard Bethke: Ludi Organi, Musical Travel Diary III, Booklet 4, Spiritual on Psalm 137 for tenor saxophone and organ op. 58, No. 4, EM 1938, Edition Merseburger, Kassel
• Georg Philipp Telemann, Concerto in A minor TWV 43 :a3 for treble recorder, oboe, violin and basso continuo, edited by Klaus Hofmann, EW 1253, Edition Walhall, Magdeburg

String orchestra

January-June 2025

• Peter Tchaikovsky: Serenade for string orchestra in C major op. 48, Urtext edited by Tanja Geschwind, score, PB 5721, € 28.90, Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden

July-December 2024

• Edvard Grieg: From Holberg's time. Suite in Old Style, Op. 40, version for string orchestra, edited by Ernst-Günter Heinemann; score, HN 3320, €22.00; set of parts (3, 3, 2, 2, 1), HN 3322, €45.00; study score; HN 7012, €10.00; G. Henle, Munich
  >>> Review by Martin Lehmann

January-June 2024

• Peter Tchaikovsky: Serenade in C major op. 48 for string orchestra, edited by Dominik Rahmer, foreword by Alexander Komarov; score HN1550, € 26.00; parts HN 1551, € 64.00; study score HN 7551, € 12.00; G. Henle, Munich

July-December 2023

• Arnold Schönberg: Transfigured Night op. 4, version for string orchestra, study score based on the text of the Arnold Schönberg Complete Edition, UE 36 531, € 33.95, Universal Edition, Vienna 2022

Chamber orchestra

January-June 2023

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: London Sketchbook 1764, Volume 1, selected and completed for chamber orchestra by Hans-Udo Kreuels, score, EW 1234, Edition Walhall, Magdeburg

Plucked string orchestra

January-June 2025

• Girolamo Frescobaldi, John Dowland, Henry Purcell: Canzona prima, Lachrimae antiquae, Chaconne, for plucked string orchestra arranged by Frank Scheuerle, score, PAN ZO 1115, € 15.00, Edition Grenzland, Pan-Verlag, Basel
  >>> Review by Melina Murray and Sandra Tinner
• Antonio Lorenziti: Quartetto concertante op. 6 No. 4, for plucked string orchestra arranged by Jean-Pierre Yraéta, score, PAN ZO 1114, € 14.00, Edition Grenzland, Pan-Verlag, Basel
• Dieter Kreidler: German folk songs - heard anew, for plucked string orchestra, level of difficulty: medium, score, PAN ZO 1103, € 25.00, Edition Grenzland, Pan-Verlag, Basel

July-December 2023

• Johann Sebastian Bach: Concerto for harpsichord, flute, violin and strings in A minor BWV 1044 "Triple Concerto", edited by Dietrich Kilian, BA 5259, € 34.95, Bärenreiter, Kassel 2023

January-June 2023

• Marlo Strauss: Topaz for plucked string orchestra, Edition Grenzland, pan ZO 1087,Pan, Basel

Solo instrument with orchestra

January-June 2025

• Johann Benjamin Gross (1808-1848): Larghetto and Variations op. 28, for violoncello and orchestra, edited by Folckert Lüken-Isberner, score, PAN 2062, € 28.00, Pan, Kassel

July-December 2023

• Felix Mendelssohn: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in E minor op. 64, edited by Birgit Müller, study score, PB 5712, € 17.90, Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden 202

January-June 2023

• Carl Friedrich Abel: Sinfonia Concertante No. 1 in B flat major WKO 42 for oboe, violin, violoncello and orchestra, EW 1236, edited by Markus Möllenbeck, Edition Walhall, Magdeburg

Wind orchestra

January-June 2024

• Erich Schmid: Suite No. 1 for wind orchestra and percussion op. 7, first edition by Knud Breyer, BB 3551, Boosey & Hawkes/Bote & Bock, Berlin

Orchestra

July–December 2025

• Johann Strauss: Tales from the Vienna Woods, Waltzes for Orchestra, Op. 325, edited by Fritz Racek, score, PB 5812, €39.90, Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden 1971/2024
• Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 5, edited by Christian Rudolf Riedel and Nick Pfefferkorn, score, PB 5635, €222.00, Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden 2025
• Richard Wagner: Lohengrin, Prelude From WWV 75, score, PB 5741, €16.90, Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden 2025
• Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 6 in D major Op. 60, edited by Jonathan Del Mar, score, BA 10416, €105.00, Bärenreiter, Prague 2025
• Maurice Ravel: The Child and the Spells, Fantaisie lyrique en deux parties, edited by Jean-François Monnard, score, PB 5753, €174.00, Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden
• Joseph Haydn: Symphony in B flat major Hob. I:66, edited by Wolfgang Stockmeier, BA 10995, $44.95, Bärenreiter, Kassel
• Maurice Ravel: La Valse. Poème chorégraphique, edited by Douglas Woodfull-Harris, score, BA 09043, €78.00, Bärenreiter, Kassel
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 40 G minor, The Great G Minor Symphony for Strings and Wind Instruments with Percussion and Harp, arranged by Thomas Stapf, score, ETM 2092, €42.00, Andrea Wiegand, Manching
• Edward Elgar: Morning Song, for strings, wind instruments, and harp (piano), arranged by Christoph Wagner, score and parts, ETM 2523, €29.00, Andrea Wiegand, Manching
• Edward Elgar: Chanson de nuit, for strings and wind instruments with timpani and harp (piano), arranged by Christoph Wagner, score and parts, ETM 2513, €29.00, Andrea Wiegand, Manching

January-June 2025

• Carl Maria von Webern: Der Freischütz (Overture), Urtext edited by Frank Reinisch, score, PB 5859, € 39.90, Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden
• Johann Strauss: Die Fledermaus (Overture), Urtext edited by Fritz Racek, score, PB 5830, € 39.90, Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony in C major KV 425 (Linzer), Urtext edited by Henrik Wiese, score, PB 5537, € 39.90, Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden
• Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 9, Urtext edited by Christian Rudolf Riedel, score, PB 5639, € 189.00, Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden
• Joseph Haydn: Symphony in B Hob. I:68edited by Wolfgang Stockmeier and Sonja Gerlach, BA 10994, € 45.95, Bärenreiter, Kassel
• Richard Strauss: A Hero's Life op. 40, edited by Nick Pfefferkorn, score, PB 5711, € 159.00, Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden

January-June 2024

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Moorish funeral music KV 477 (original scoring, later scoring, posthumous double scoring), edited by Ulrich Konrad and H.C. Robbins Landon, BA 9189, € 29.50, Bärenreiter, Kassel

July-December 2023

• Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 4, study score edited by Renate Stark-Voit, UE 36 518, € 39.95, Universal Edition, Vienna 2022
• Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 44th movement, piano reduction edited by Renate Stark-Voit, UE 38 353, € 16.95, Universal Edition, Vienna 2022
• Jean Sibelius: Lemminkäinen Suite op. 22, edited by Tuija Wicklund, study score, PB 5576, € 39.90, Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden 2023
• Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 4 in A minor op. 63, edited by Tuija Wicklund, study score, PB 5695, € 18.90, Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden 2023
• Richard Strauss: Don Quixote op. 35, edited by Nick Pfefferkorn, PB 5719, € 98.00, Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden 2023
• Manuel de Falla: Noches en los Jardines de España, edited by Ullrich Scheideler, study score, PB 15154, € 19.90, Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden 2023
• Camille Saint-Saëns: Introduction et Rondo capriccioso op. 28, edited by Peter Jost, study score, PB 15159, € 14.90, Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden 2023

January-June 2023

• Maurice Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé. Fragments Symphoniques 1re Suite, edited by Jean-François Monnard, PB 5651, € 89.00, Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden 2023
• Maurice Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé. Fragments Symphoniques 2e Suite, edited by Jean-François Monnard, PB 5652, € 109.00, Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden 2023

Basso continuo and historical improvisation

January-June 2023

• Monika Mandelartz: Greensleeves and pudding pies. Figured Bass and Historic Improvisation, 50 Pieces for 2 or more Instrumentalists, Level 1, EW 1220, Edition Walhall, Magdeburg
  >>> Review by Dominik Sackmann

 

Solo singing

July–December 2025

• Songs by European female composers for voice and piano, edited by Jan Willem Nelleke and Voices of Woman, EB 9560, €28.90, Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden
• Friedrich Theodor Fröhlich: John and Esther, Poem cycle by Johann Ludwig Wilhelm Müller, for tenor and piano, Edited by Johannes Vigfusson, first edition, score, IFTFG-04, Int. Friedrich-Theodor-Fröhlich-Gesellschaft, Brugg, happy-society.com

January-June 2025

• Neidhard Bethke: The outrageous fortune, song cycle on texts by Eva Zeller for alto and piano (organ), EM 616, € 39.00 Merseburger, Kassel
• Pauline Viardot-Garcia: Complete Spanish Songs and Duets for one or two voices and piano, edited by Miguel Lopez-Fernandez, EB 9473, € 43.90, Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden
• Steffen Wolf: Ways to duet singing - a German "Vaccai" for two, 24 duets after poems by Heinrich Heine for two voices and piano, EB 9388, € 39.90, Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden

July-December 2024

• Arnold Schönberg: Eight songs for one voice and piano op. 6, UE 38136, € 29.95, Universal Edition, Vienna
• Robert Schumann: Myrtles, Liederkreis op. 25, edited by Kazuko Ozawa; edition for medium voice, HN 1643; edition for low voice, HN 1644; € 24.00 each, G. Henle, Munich

January-June 2024

• Evgeny Kissin: Nine Songs op. 5 after poems by Boris Sandler, for voice and piano, HN 1133, € 28.00, G. Henle, Munich
• David Alagna et Frédérico Alagna : L'Andalouse, mélodie sur un poème d'Alfred de Musset, pour voix aigue et orchestre, € 20.00, Editions Symétrie, Lyon ISMN 978-0-23180427-0
• Jules Massenet : C'était dans la saison des roses, sur un texte d'Augustine-Malvina Blanchecotte, pour chant et piano, ed. par Jean-Christophe Branger, € 8.00, Editions Symétrie, Lyon ISMN 978-2-36485-120-7

July-December 2023

• Joanna Gill: A Song of Thanksgiving and Dedication, for soprano and piano, UE 21848, € 9.95, Universal Edition, Vienna
• Evening sounds, night songs. Songs by women composers, edited by Maria Behrendt, EB 9477, € 25.90, Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden
  >>> Review by Walter Labhart

January-June 2023

• Richard Straus: Four songs op. 36, after the text of the critical edition, edited by Andreas Pernpeintner; for high voice with piano accompaniment UE 38163; for medium voice and piano UE 38164; for low voice and piano UE 38165; € 19.95 each, Universal Edition, Vienna
• Michael Töpel: Six songs after poems by Gerhart Hauptmann, for soprano and piano, EM 615, € 15.00, Merseburger, Kassel
• OperaAria Tenor 1, lyrical, edited by Peter Anton Ling, EB 8874, € 32.90, Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden
• Bach/Gounod: Ave Maria, for voice and piano, original text for high voice, edited by Gérard Condé, HN 1012, G. Henle, Munich

Vocal ensemble

July-December 2023

• Johannes Brahms: Liebeslieder, waltzes for voice and piano for two hands op. 52, edited by Jakob Hauschild, ChB 16003, € 17.90, Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden
• Johannes Brahms: Four Quartets for four voices and piano, edited by Bernd Wiechert, ChB 16002, € 16.90, Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden

January-June 2023

• Comedian Harmonists. The original 5Five original arrangements by the Comedian Harmonists, edited by Ulrich Etscheit, reconstructed by Frank Schwemmer, BE 00457, € 12.95, Bosse (Bärenreiter), Kassel

Choir

July–December 2025

• Adrian Bucher: Ten choral songs a cappella based on poems by Eichendorff and Hesse for 4-part mixed choir Self-published, www.adrianbucher.net
• Thomas-Maria Reck: Singalong Songs II, 23 new chants and groove songs, teaching materials for choir singing without sheet music, including a strategy card set and audio download, $30.00, stimmlände.com
• Zoltan Kodaly: Eight Little Duets for soprano and tenor voices and piano after the Bicinia Hungarica, Vocal score, B & H 18389, Boosey & Hawkes (Schott), London
• Pēteris Vasks: Siltums bezgalīgs/Infinite Warmth, for mixed choir SATB based on a poem by Knuts Skujenieks, C 60261, €4.50, Schott, Mainz
• Pēteris Vasks: The Fruit of Silence, Full choral score for mixed choir SATB a cappella / and piano / and string orchestra / and organ, based on a text by Mother Teresa, C 60530, $7.50, Schott, Mainz
• Friedrich Theodor Fröhlich: The First Psalm, for soloists, choir, and orchestra, edited by Johannes Vigfusson, first edition, score and parts, IFTFG-05, Int. Friedrich-Theodor-Fröhlich-Gesellschaft, Brugg, happy-society.com

January-June 2025

• Martin Wistinghausen: The thunderstorm for mixed choir a cappella, EM 519, € 19.00, Merseburger, Kassel
• Arnd-Dieter Ubben: Six praise and thanksgiving motets for six-part choir a cappella, EM 520, € 22.00, Merseburger, Kassel
• Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Lauda Sion MWV A 24, for solo choir and orchestra, edited by Clemens Harasim, score, PB 5648, € 53.00, Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden
• Johann Kuhnau: How beautifully the morning star shines, Cantata after Psalm 98, edited by David Erler, score, PB 5844, € 39.90, Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden
• Johann Kuhnau: Sing unto the Lord a new song Cantata for Christmas Day, edited by David Erler, score, PB 5678, € 42.90, Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden
• Johann Sebastian Bach: Magnificat in D major BWV 243 with interludes for performance at Christmas timefor soloists, choir and orchestra, edited by David Erler, score, PB 5733, € 28.90, Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden
• Jean Sibelius: Six songs for female voices a cappella, score, ChB 5390, € 8.90, Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden
• Uli Führe: The Nöck. Six two-part children's choir songs based on texts by James Krüss with piano accompaniment, (Der Kinderchor 13), Order No. 523, € 9.90, Fidula, Emmelshausen
• Tjark Baumann: Stimmbilder 2 with drawings by Eleonore Gerhaher, 20 picture cards for choir, singing and voice training lessons, order no. 945, € 24.90, Fidula, Emmelshausen

July-December 2024

• Frank Martin: Messe pour double Chœur a cappellaedited by Michael Ostrzyga, score, BA 11315, € 13.95, Bärenreiter, Kassel
  >>> Review by Markus Utz
• Tjark Baumann : Magnificatfor mixed choir (SSAM), soloists and piano, piano score, completed and arranged by Johannes Gessner, order no. 334, € 29.90, Fidula, Emmelshausen
• Arvo Pärt: Our Father for mixed choir and piano, UE 38005, € 8.95, Universal Edition, Vienna
  >>> Review by Markus Utz
• Richard Strauss: Two songs after texts by Adolf Friedrich von Schack (Heimkehr op. 15.5; Wie sollen wir geheim sie halten, op. 19,4) for eight-part mixed choir transcribed by Clytus Gottwald, UE 36724, € 12.95, Universal Edition, Vienna
• Genesis: Invisible Touch, for mixed choir arr. by Andreas Warschkow, Bosse Hits a cappella, BE00678, € 5.25, Bosse (Bärenreiter), Kassel

January-June 2024

• Yves Castagnet : L'Invitation au voyage, mélodie pour chœur et piano sur le poème de Charles Baudelaire, € 10.00, Editions Symétrie, Lyon ISMN 978-2-36485-137-5
• Dominique Vellard : Trois Motets pour voix d'hommes, solistes et ensemble vocal, € 20.00, Editions Symétrie, Lyon ISMN 978-2-36485-238-9
• Karl Jenkins: One World, for soli, choir SATB and orchestra, piano reduction, BH 14036, Boosey & Hawkes, London(Schott)
• Lucy Walker: Away in a manger, for SATB (with divisi) a cappella, Boosey & Hawkes, London(Schott)
• Lucy Walker: My heart, O God, for SATB (with divisi) a cappella, Boosey & Hawkes, London(Schott)
• Swiss Choral Music, for mixed choir a cappella, edited by Johannes Meister and Parrick Secchiari, C 2.305, with or without CD Carus, Stuttgart
  >>> Review by Markus Utz
• Gabriel Fauré: Pavane op. 50, arrangement for choir SATB and piano four hands by Pierre Albert Kopff and Kathrin Schweizer, score, C 10.402/10, € 12.00, Carus, Stuttgart
• Giacomo Puccini. I figli d'Italia bella "Cessato il suon dell'armi", for tenor solo, choir and orchestra, edited by Virgilio Bernardoni, score, C 56.151, € 27.00, Carus, Stuttgart
• Hermann Suter: Le Laudi di San Francesco d'Assisi (Canticle of the Sun) op. 25, chamber version by Urs Stäuble for 4 soli choir, children's voices, organ, timpani, glockenspiel, tam-tam and string quintet, score, Hug Musikverlage, Zurich
• Arvo Pärt: O Holy Father Nicholas, for mixed choir a cappella, UE38 114, € 13.95, Universal Edition, Vienna
  >>> Review by Markus Utz
• Henrike Thies-Gebauer: The Disciple, Musical on the story of Mary Magdalene for one to three-part choir, soloists, piano, bass, percussion and guitar ad. Lib. Score, ZE 2283, € 19.90, Zebe, Berlin
• LOTTE & Max Giesinger: Here's to what's still to come, for mixed choir arranged by Oliver Gies, Series: Made for choir!, BE 655, Bosse, Kassel
• Danger Dan: Good news, for mixed choir arranged by Oliver Gies, Series: Made for choir!, BE 670, Bosse, Kassel
• John Farnham: You're the Voice, arranged for mixed choir by Oliver Gies, Series: Made for choir!, BE 673, Bosse, Kassel
• Maybebop: Dat du min Leevsten büst, for mixed choir arranged by Oliver Gies, Series: Made for choir!, BE 674, Bosse, Kassel
• Alois Leenders: Missa Vivaldi, Missa brevis to "The Four Seasons" for choir SATB and piano, order no. 225, Fidula, Emmelshausen
• Stefan Lindner: Springtime Songs, Five countries, five languages: European Spring Suite for mixed choir SAM, percussion and piano, with audio QR codes, order no. 219, Fidula, Emmelshausen

July-December 2023

• Music for the Spirit. Chorbuch zu Pfingsten & anderen Anlässen, edited by Stephen Harrap, ChB 5384, € 26.90, Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden
  >>> Review by Markus Utz
• Give peace! Choir book for the German Youth Choir Festival "Pueri Cantores" 2023 in Münster, ChB 5385, € 17.90, Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden
• Johann Kuhnau: Christ lag in Todes-Banden, Cantata for Easter, for soloists (choir) and orchestra, edited by David Erler, PB 32034, € 24.90, Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden
• Johann Kuhnau: Decorate the festival with May, Cantata for the Feast of Pentecost, for soloists, choir and orchestra, edited by David Erler, PB 32117, € 39.90, Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden
• Franz Schubert: Mass in E flat D 950, edited by Rudolf Faber; score: BA 5576, € 95.00; piano reduction by Andreas Köhs: 5576-90, € 14.50; Bärenreiter, Kassel
• Camille Saint-Saëns: Super flumina Babylonis, edited by Christina M. Stahl; score: BA 11305, € 24.95; piano reduction by the composer: 11305-90, € 7.95; Bärenreiter, Kassel
• Camille Saint-Saëns: By the rivers of Babylonfor alto solo, choir and piano, edited by Christina M. Stahl; score: BA 11309, € 9.95; choral score: 11309-91, € 5.95; Bärenreiter, Kassel
• The Wayfaring Stranger, for mixed choir SATB arr. by Martin Kirchhübel, Bosse Hits a cappella, BE 787, Bosse, Kassel
• Meat Loaf: I'd do anything for love (but I won't do that), for mixed choir SMezATB + soli arr. by Agnes Hassler, Bosse Hits a cappella, BE 785, Bosse, Kassel
• The new choir book (S)SAB / SABT a cappellaedited by Christopher Miltenberger and Ulrike Wenckebach, ED 23412, € 32.50, Schott, Mainz
• Christmas music, choral movements of the 16th and 17th centuries for four voices for recorders, violas da gamba, other melody instruments or mixed choir, edited by Manfred Harras, RM 01, Basilisk Edition, Basel
• Christmas chorales, 5-part choral movements from the 16th and 17th centuries for recorders, violas da gamba, other melody instruments or mixed choir, edited by Manfred Harras, RM 31, Basilisk Edition, Basel
• Sting: Why should I cry for you, for mixed choir a cappalla arr. by Martin Kirchhübel, Bosse A-cappella-Hits, BE 788, € 5.25, Bosse, Kassel
• Johannes Brahms: A German Requiem, edited by Michael Struck and Michael Musgrave, study score, HN 9029, € 20.00, G. Henle, Munich

January-June 2023

• Gustav Mahler: Don't look into my songs! from "Fünf Lieder nach Texten von Friedrich Rückert", for twelve-part choir a cappella arranged by Lukas Haselböck, Chrpartitur UE 38138, € 10.95, Universal Edition, Vienna
• Gustav Mahler: Ich atmet' einen linden Duft, from "Fünf Lieder nach Texten von Friedrich Rückert", for twelve-part choir a cappella arranged by Lukas Haselböck, Chrpartitur UE 38139, € 9.95, Universal Edition, Vienna
• Gustav Mahler: I am lost to the world, from "Fünf Lieder nach Texten von Friedrich Rückert", for twelve-part choir a cappella arranged by Lukas Haselböck, chrpartitur UE 38140, € 11.50, Universal Edition, Vienna
• Gustav Mahler: At Midnight, from "Fünf Lieder nach Texten von Friedrich Rückert", for twelve-part choir a cappella arranged by Lukas Haselböck, Chrpartitur UE 38141, € 11.95, Universal Edition, Vienna
• Gustav Mahler: Do you love beauty, from "Fünf Lieder nach Texten von Friedrich Rückert", for twelve-part choir a cappella arranged by Lukas Haselböck, Chrpartitur UE 38142, € 8.95, Universal Edition, Vienna
• Richard Strauss: Three songs (Nachtgang, Ich trage meine Minne, Madrigal) for five-part choir transcribed by Clytus Gottwald, UE 36990, € 12.95, Universal Edition, Vienna
• Joanna Gill: A Hymn to the Father, for mixed choir, violin solo and violoncello solo, UE 21845, € 4.95, Universal Edition, Vienna
• George Arthur: Simple Gifts, for two-part upper voice choir with piano accompaniment, UE 21844, € 3.93, Universal Edition, Vienna
• Johann Sebastian Bach: St. John Passion, version II "O man, weep" (1725) BWV 245.2, edited by Manuel Bärwald; score: BA 5938, € 85.00; piano reduction: BA 5938-90, € 15.95; Bärenreiter, Kassel
• Leokadiya Kashperova: Evening & Night, for female choir SSAA a cappella, BH 13990, € 17.00, Boosey & Hawkes (Schott), London
• Johannes Brahms: Triumphlied op. 55, edited by Johannes Behr and Ulrich Tadday, , study score, HN 9030, G. Henle, Munich
• Marin Wistinghausen: Time is of the essence, pass away! for choir, theorbo, violone, (tuba) organ, score, EM 1034, Edition Merseburger, Kassel

School music

July–December 2025

• Henrike Thies-Gebauer: Elli and the Tower, Musical for one- to two-part choir, soloists and piano, bass, percussion, soprano recorder, guitar ad lib., score, ZE 2286, €19.90, Zebe, Berlin

January-June 2025

• Jörg Sommerfeld / Felix Janosa: Sounds Good. The art of pedagogical arranging. The practice book for schools, music schools, music clubs and ensembles, EB 9411, € 49.90, Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden
• Uli Führe: The Nöck. Six two-part children's choir songs based on texts by James Krüss with piano accompaniment, (Der Kinderchor 13), Order No. 523, € 9.90, Fidula, Emmelshausen

January-June 2024

• Meowowow, 33 Katzenmusiken und Hundegesänge, themed songbooks edited by Katharina Holzmeister, order no. 076, Fidual, Emmelshausen
• Sami Kajtazaj: Our favorite stories, with cool songs to sing along to, illustrated by Anna Stawarz, Edition Hug GH 11819, Hug Music Publishers, Zurich

Songbooks

July–December 2025

• Martin Kuhnle: The Backpack Guitar, Learning & Playbook, all verses with chords, D 827, $19.80, Dux, Manching
• Martin Kuhnle: The Backpack Ukulele, Learning & Playbook, all verses with chords, D 828, $19.80, Dux, Manching

January-June 2023

• Songs for everyone, 60 songs for everyone who likes to sing, lyric book with accordion, edited by Manfred Rehm, D 809, Edition Dux, Manching
• Songs for everyone, 60 songs for everyone who likes to sing, lyric book, edited by Manfred Rehm, D 808, Edition Dux, Manching

 

"Not a second of idleness" can be found in Dieter Ammann's works, said his famous, now sadly deceased composer colleague Wolfgang Rihm. The fact is that the creations of the composer from Aargau, who teaches composition at the Lucerne University of Music, are extremely well received by audiences. His piano concerto Gran Toccata, which he worked on for several years, has already been performed worldwide with great success - also thanks to the phenomenal interpretation by Andreas Haefliger - and his viola concerto no templates also has a great chance of becoming a repertoire piece.

However, Ammann has become particularly well-known in the last decade with four works for large orchestra, in chronological order these are Boost (PREMIERE 2002), Core (PREMIERE 2002), Turn (UA 2010) and glow (PREMIERE 2016). The first three were commissioned by the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra and the Lucerne Festival, glow The Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra and the Bern Symphony Orchestra will perform together.

Improvisational habitus and meticulous care

Their captivating effect is based on several factors: on the one hand, you can sense Ammann's past as a jazz musician and improviser. Although the four pieces do not contain any improvised or aleatoric passages, but on the contrary are "worked out" down to the smallest detail, they have a rhythmic groove that constantly maintains the tension. Pierre Boulez characterized them as follows: "Ammann's orchestral works form a synthesis of seemingly improvisational habitus and meticulous care in their elaboration." This way of working makes him one of the "slowest" composers among his contemporaries. Ammann writes that composing also means "enduring the contradiction of being a seeker in a world whose creator you are at the same time". On the other hand, the works are very varied and sensual, as Ammann exploits all the possibilities of a modern orchestra in his orchestration, with percussion often featuring prominently.

Of course, very different music has left its mark on Ammann's work; one is momentarily reminded of John Adams' Short Ride in a Fast Machine, Mark-Anthony Turnages Three Screaming PopesGyörgy Kurtág's Stele or even Alexander Mossolov's Iron foundryi; some of the harmonies and timbres are reminiscent of works by French Impressionists or Olivier Messiaen. Ammann's music is not epigonal, however, but has its own personal signature. It is pleasing that he completely dispenses with quotations, which seem almost unavoidable with other composers at the moment.

Opulent in sound and played with brilliance

Naxos will release a CD of orchestral music by Ammann in 2023 (including Core, Turn and Boost) in outstanding, live-recorded interpretations by the Basel Sinfonietta under Baldur Brönnimann. The fact that the Schweizer Fonogramm label has now released these three works, supplemented by glowin studio recordings with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande under the direction of Jonathan Nott, who is familiar with Ammann's music, can be described as a stroke of luck. On the one hand, we now have two different recordings of some of the most interesting recent orchestral works composed in Switzerland; on the other hand, the new recording, opulent in sound and played with the greatest brilliance, is a real pleasure to listen to. The CD can be warmly recommended!

Dieter Ammann: glut, music for orchestra. Orchestre de la Suisse Romande; Jonathan Nott, conductor. Swiss Fonogram, SF0020

This LP almost makes you feel a little nostalgic. The agility of this bass playing, the nimble and at times wild actionism, a gesture of departure as we know it from the London free jazz scene, often tamed by structure that comes from new music. That was the 70s.

The British double bass player Barry Guy, who has lived in Switzerland with his wife, violinist Maya Homburger, for a long time, has performed in several scenes, including baroque music. He has performed in Donaueschingen several times. And here everything comes together in a unique way. The one-and-a-half LP (with A, B and C sides) has a few surprises in store.

Only Iannis Xenakis' Theraps has become a classic with its bruitistic and playful power. The other four composers, although they are all still alive, have faded somewhat into the background; it is worth rediscovering them. They knew how to use Guy's improvisational and theatrical qualities in a variety of ways: Bernard Rands, for example, with Memo or John Anthony Celona with Voicings. The voice of the double bass player joins in, whispering and whistling. The Italian Luca Lombardi has composed a political Essay with a quote from Paul Dessau, and the South Tyrolean Hubert Stuppner wrote with Expressions a rondo for a clown - which is wonderfully illustrated with photos in this LP edition: Here, the bass is playing away with itself from the tape - a fine example of the exuberant vitality that instrumental theater still possessed in those years.

Is that a thing of the past? In any case, it takes a virtuoso like Barry Guy, who incidentally has also created magnificent score graphics. Anaclasis from 2002, the only own and more recent work, realized here with his bass colleague Stefano Scodanibbio, is one of them: it opens up a rich playing field for the two musicians.

Barry Guy Plays. Luca Lombardi, Hubert Stuppner, Iannis Xenakis, Bernard Rands, John Anthony Celona and Barry Guy. Barry Guy, double bass. Maya Recordings MLP 2401

"Memory is something we performers don't like to talk about - mainly because we're afraid of losing it." This is what the Canadian pianist Angela Hewitt once said. The fact that professionals can play by heart for hours on end, usually without making mistakes, is basically a miracle. In fact, our brain memory is as fascinating as it is almost impossible to penetrate. Beyond the extremely complex and as yet barely researched interplay of hundreds of trillions of synapses, this also applies to the topic of "music and memory". Although it is immediately obvious, it is still difficult to grasp.

Music and memory by Melanie Unseld is a study book. The professor, who teaches in Vienna, aims to provide an overview of musicological perspectives on a subject that has been significantly promoted by cultural studies, for example by Jan Assmann's book The cultural memory. Identities therefore play a role, for example, where the subconsciously anchored Marseillaise or other hymns create national awareness. Other areas of research include aspects of canon formation and reception research. Why are some things remembered and why not? Why have these or those composers and far fewer female composers prevailed? Unseld naturally also touches on monument preservation and politics with such questions. She mentions, for example, the temporary ban on the Marseillaisewhich, due to its revolutionary potential, was to disappear from memory for a time, just like some works by Russian composers that were banned under Joseph Stalin.

It is not always easy to follow Unseld. She changes perspectives in minute detail. From the absolutely important role of music in the lifelong formative teenage years, she jumps to music didactics, dementia research or a falsifying memory that is commonplace in biographies. As if that were not enough, memories also play a role in the aesthetics of composition. Composers recall predecessors by quoting them. And: sonata form, variation movements, verses and choruses make it clear that music almost always plays on the keyboard of memory. Unseld sums up this particular narrow approach by writing about the experience of time: "Music can deal with time in three ways. It can construct time (through rhythms or the course of form, through composition), imagine time (for example with historical performance practice or music historiography) and make time perceptible (for example through the correlation to the heartbeat or when time passes while practicing or attending a concert)."

For the time being, it is impossible to foresee where this complex field of research will lead. It is nice that Unseld's excellently edited book moves away from cool formalism towards a more human approach to music. In the end, however, it cannot be overlooked that memory is (so far) difficult to grasp and is often very different from person to person. In this respect, music in turn has to do with memory, because both areas seem like a pudding that cannot be nailed to the wall.

Melanie Unseld: Music and Memory - A Study Book, 298 p., € 29.90, Rombach Wissenschaft, Baden-Baden 2025, ISBN 978-3-96821-886-1  

Estonian composer Arvo Pärt celebrated his 90th birthday this September. He himself says of his style, which emerged in the late 1980s: "Tintinnabulation is an area I sometimes delve into when I'm looking for answers - in my life, my music, my work. (...) The complex and multi-layered only confuses me, and I have to search for unity ..."

Two of his most recent choral works are the German Our Father and the motet O Holy Father Nicholas. He wrote the latter for the rededication of St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church at the National Shrine at Ground Zero in New York, which was destroyed on September 11, 2001. A sonorous, enriching ten minutes in typical Pärt a cappella style. The Our Father on the other hand, is rather atypical for him, but no less impressive. In addition to the previous versions for voice and piano and for choir, piano and string orchestra, Universal Edition Wien has now published this new version for choir and piano, which can also be performed by amateur choirs.

Arvo Pärt: Our Father, for mixed choir and piano, UE 38005, € 8.95, Universal Edition, Vienna

Id.: O Holy Father Nicholas, for mixed choir a cappella, UE 38114, € 13.95

 

For a century and a half, the magazine Music & Liturgy as the most important organ of Catholic church music in German-speaking Switzerland, reports on church music and its developments. It sheds light on everyday musical practice in liturgy and sacred concerts from various perspectives.

What began in 1876 as a paper called Choir guard began years later under the title Catholic church music and later Singing and making music in church services finally to Music & Liturgya magazine that covers a broad spectrum of church music life and creativity beyond the choral world. Since the beginning of this year, it is no longer in print, but as an online platform.

On March 14, 2026, a festive ceremony will take place at 1.30 pm in the Einsiedeln monastery church with three choirs and instrumental music. At the same time, three important figures in church music in Switzerland, Father Theo Flury, Abbot Urban Federer and Martin Hobi, will be honored for their outstanding commitment to church music with an Orlando di Lasso and Ambrosius Medal respectively. The general public is also cordially invited to this ceremony.

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From Stefan Muhmenthaler to Jakob Steiner: for each year, Ueli Steingruber has portrayed a personality who was awarded first prize in the Swiss Youth Music Competition (SJMW) between 1976 and 2025. The color or black and white photographs show them in an everyday situation today. The aim is to take a look at the big picture, at the consistency of the competition for 50 years: "Like a reliably nourishing river, it runs through the biographies of the Swiss music world and feeds it with motivated young talent." This is how Michael Eidenbenz praises the SJMW in the introductory text.

The volume, beautifully designed under the direction of Valérie Probst, invites you to look, read and reflect on the nature of music again and again.

50 - Swiss Youth Music Competition 1975 to 2025, published by the Swiss Youth Music Competition Foundation, 120 p., Fr. 35.00, ISBN 978-3-033-11409-8, info@sjmw.ch

The well-known guitarist David Russell described José Tomás (1934-2001) from the Spanish coastal town of Alicante as the most influential guitar teacher of the late 20th century. Tomás was not only a gifted guitarist and teacher, but also a diligent arranger of Renaissance, Baroque and other music. Pedro Jesús Gómez, like Russell a former student of Tomás, has now published a carefully compiled collection of transcriptions by the Iberian maestro with Editions Chanterelle.

The first focus is on 16th and 17th century lute music, with John Dowland featuring particularly prominently. With Couperin and Purcell it is then the harpsichord, with Bach's E minor suite BWV 996 the legendary lute piano, which is played on the guitar strings. From Haydn to the 20th century, there is arranged piano music by "classics" of the guitar repertoire such as Albéniz and Granados, but also by other greats of the (late) Romantic period such as Tchaikovsky and Ravel.

Tomás played mainly on an eight-string Ramirez guitar made especially for him, with which he could also play the low notes of a polychoral Renaissance or Baroque lute. His arrangements were also tailored to this instrument. Editor Gómez meticulously documents deviations from Tomás' manuscripts. In most of the pieces, one string is retuned (F sharp instead of G, D instead of E, even G instead of A). There are practically no gaps in the fingerings. The commentary is in English and Spanish. Anyone who enjoys interpreting lute and piano music on the guitar will be well served by this anthology.

The José Tomás Guitar Anthology, Arrangements for Guitar solo by José Tomás, ed. by Pedro Jesús Gómez, ECH 2725, € 22.50, Editions Chanterelle (Schott), Mainz

Ingo Bredenbach, the organist at Tübingen's Stiftskirche, makes it possible to Johann Sebastian Bach's piano lessons deep insights into his compositional development. The focus is on the works for keyboard instruments that accompanied the entire development of Bach's creativity, from his self-study to his main activity as the most important organ teacher of his era. Bredenbach's starting point are the copies of two organ works by Jan Adam Reincken and Dieterich Buxtehude, which he studied to acquire knowledge of harmony and some contrapuntal licenses. During the first half of his life, Bach enriched this basic knowledge of North German music by studying Italian music, especially the Italian concerto, in order to later pass on his experiences to his numerous apprentices. Bredenbach's study traces Bach's musical career in detail as a lifelong lesson, from learning to teaching.

The strengths of this practice-based study lie in the analytical details that an organist who wants to improvise in Bach's style must "grasp". More problematic is the sometimes selective consideration of existing literature. Sometimes insights are proclaimed that have long since been published elsewhere. The author lacked the organizing hand of a master like Bach, which would have helped him to consistently implement a clear concept from the wealth of complex information in the book in such a way that the fundamental is separated from the details and the important from the trivial. Nevertheless, if you want to learn something essential about Bach's music, you would be well advised to take Bredenbach's book, which is well worth reading, and the sheet music of all the works discussed.

Ingo Bredenbach: Johann Sebastian Bach's piano lessons. Bach as a learner and teacher, 519 p., € 59.00, Bärenreiter, Kassel 2024, ISBN 978- 3-7618- 2617-1

 

The Geneva-born composer Gasparo Fritz (1716-1783) became particularly well known for his chamber music. He came from a musical dynasty, received a profound musical education and studied the violin in Italy with Giovanni Battista Somis, a pupil of Arcangelo Corelli. It can be said that the author's Italian influence is also clearly audible in his style and is evident in the melodic design and structural clarity of his works.

Published by Michael Biehl and Claire Genewein in collaboration with Peter Schmid, the VI Sonata a Violino o Flauto Traversiere solo col Basso op. 2 are among the composer's most outstanding works. Players have the choice between violin and flute as solo instruments. In some passages, alternative versions are given depending on the instrument.

Character

Nicola Schneider explains in the preface that the concept of a musical rococo undoubtedly applies to these sonatas. They often manifest a form of elegance that is considered characteristic of the transitional phase to the Classical period. Baroque formal rigor is combined with gallant lines, clear melodies and dialogic interplay. The flute is often led in a lively musical dialog with the bass voice with a distinctly fine feeling for cantabile lines, for example in the Andante in the 1st Sonata.

All of Gasparo Fritz's sonatas display galant elements, for example in ornamentation, lightness, dance-like rhythms and a certain grace. In addition, colorfulness is created by the numerous written-out ornaments as well as a longer composed cadenza in the Adagio of the 2nd sonata. The rapid changes of affect and the varied articulation often have the narrative effect of a story with many facets. The movement models are mostly in three movements and sometimes lead to a playful final movement with virtuoso variations, such as in the 4th sonata.

Echoes

Two significant parallels to other flute sonatas that last for several bars are striking: The first bars of the Andante from the 4th sonata are similar to the opening theme of Johann Sebastian Bach's Sonata in B minor BWV 1030 and in the cantabile Largo of the 2nd sonata there is an audible echo of the Siciliano from the Flute Sonata in E flat major BWV 1031 attributed to Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach.

Source situation

The first publication of these sonatas to feature a suspended continuo was the work by Frank Martin. Michael Biehl's intention with his continuo realization is to give a wider audience the opportunity to interpret the work and points out that this is only one possibility and that the figures could not have been written by Gaspard Fritz, but by his editor, as no autograph of the sonatas exists.

The lavish edition published by Schmid & Genewein in Zurich is based on the original print with an upper part and a figured bass, which is kept in the Zentralbibliothek Zürich, and also adopts its dynamic indications. It includes as scores the upper part with the continuo set out by Michael Biehl and, in accordance with the original, the upper part with figured bass, in two copies for the convenience of performers. A detailed critical report with numerous notes on the sonatas rounds off this new edition, which is successful in every respect.

Gasparo Fritz: VI Sonate a Violino o Flauto Traversiere solo col Basso, edited by Michael Biehl and Claire Genewein, SG010, Fr. 54.00, Schmid & Genewein, Zurich

 

 

Some people say that heavy metal is close to classical music. Well, that probably varies from case to case. In any case, virtuosity on the instrument or in the voice can be found in quite a few metal bands. What's more, many of the musicians in this sometimes amusing scene have undergone professional training.

Keyboardist Thomas Hiebaum sees himself as the composer of the Aargau symphonic metal band Deep Sun, which has now been in existence for almost 20 years. On their new album, the quintet mixes Storyteller all kinds of things together. Here the typically distorted metal guitar with its hard rhythmic riffs and the drum set with its fast bass attacks. Then there are the dense keyboard sounds, often reminiscent of a string orchestra, and the high soprano voice of Debora Lavagnolo, always moving in sustained melodies.

Lavagnolo writes the lyrics himself. They are about mysticism, about - as the song descriptions say - the "triumph of rebirth", about "stories from the forests or from the lakes" or about the "irrefutable strength of women". One suspects that a certain pathos, which is probably inscribed in symphonic metal, is not far away and it is also redeemed in the form of dense sound clusters, which are also heavily built up with a lot of reverb and compression. So: there are many virtuoso interludes from the guitarist and the drummer; also many episodes to sing along to and invitations to sway with a "feel-good factor". But at some point you think: a little less of everything would probably have done in the end.

Deep Sun: Storyteller. Power Blast Records