Among musicologists and serious lovers of music Wagner's Tristan und Isolde is generally considered the high point of orchestration in the musical tra......
Brahms's melodic gifts and genuine emotional response to poetry produced some of thefinest German songs, equalling and occasionally surpassing Schuber......
Franek's only symphony was a late composition, first performed in Paris in February 1889, a year before his death. It splendidly reveals the great Bel......
Connoisseurs of rag are aware that original, creative syncopation does not stop with Joplin. The ragtime revival is only beginning to rediscover forgo......
Brahms's melodic gifts and genuine emotional response to poetry produced some of the finest German songs, equalling and occasionally surpassing Schube......
Lovers of the rich burnished tones of the cello will appreciate the keynote of this volume: complete scores of three great romantic cello concertos br......
Noted for their extraordinary romantic warmth and imagination, Schumann's piano pieces are among the very greatest ever written. Their deeply felt lyr......
Acknowledged as the supreme melodic master of 19th century Russian music, Tehaikovsky brought the full power of his gifts to bear in the composition o......
Unabridged score of composer's last opera, renowned for splendid music and glowing orchestration. Deeply personal treatment of the legend of the Holy ......
In the first decade of the 20th century, while the rest of the world was still wearing out the waltz, America was jumping to a new kind of music: ragt......
First performed in Berlin in 1821, Der Freischutz is recognized as the wellspring of German Romantic opera. It was immensely influential in subject ma......
Unabridged reprint, from definitive Breitkopf & Härtel edition, of 6 great concertos, including Mozart's cadenzas for Nos. 12–16. Large, easy-to-......
Unabridged score of great symphonic suite, masterpiece of "program" music imbued with shimmering Near Eastern moods, inventive and brilliant effects, ......
Brahms's melodic gifts and genuine emotional response to poetry produced some of the finest German songs, equalling and occasionally surpassing Schube......
Six staples of the orchestral repertoire reprinted from the authoritative Breitkopf & Härtel edition. Overture to Coriolanus, Op. 62; Leonore Ove......
Among the best-loved and most performed of Chopin's piano eompositions are his mazurkas. This volume ineludes 51 works--remarkable for their wide emot......
This selection of Robert Schumann's solo piano compositions, edited by ClaraSchumann, eontains all of his major early work: "Variation fiber den Namen......
Sparkling, graceful and tinged with an ineffable melancholy, Chopin's waltzes succeed in conveying an air of mystery while retaining their ballroom sp......
Jacques Offenbach (18t9-1880) was one of the greatest composers of lightheartedoperettas, and his famous songs continue to cbarm millions who know nei......
Melding literary, philosophical and political--as well as musical--influences in his works, Richard Wagner (1813-1883) brought the expressive power of......
