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Not just “Carmen”: the new editorial project “Bizet’s Other Operas”
Fishergate Music is publishing successive critical new editions of Georges Bizet’s lesser-known operas.The first works, “Djamileh” and “Don Procopio”, are already available in score, vocal score and orchestral parts. “La Jolie Fille de Perth”, “La Maison du Docteur”, “Le Docteur Miracle” and “Ivan IV” will follow. The performance material, available on hire, can be obtained from Bärenreiter · Alkor. »more«

Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin” from Bärenreiter
Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin” is probably the most frequently-performed Russian opera. But its success was not assured from the outset. Now this stagework is being published by Bärenreiter in an edition reflecting the latest state of research, taking into consideration the somewhat complicated history of its composition. The new edition finally clears up the many mistakes and inconsistencies in the previous editions of the score. It follows the 1885 St Petersburg version which can be regarded as the final authorised version since Tchaikovsky prepared it for the second edition of the score published by Jürgenson in 1891. »more«

Music out of music. Philipp Maintz’s new ensemble work and chorale preludes
Philipp Maintz places an instrumental protagonist from his chamber opera “Thérèse” after Émile Zola at the centre of his new ensemble work “c’est une volupté de plus”: the accordion, as the secret protagonist in the septet, forms a kind of musical continuation and a portrait of the main character Thérèse Raquin, whose affair ends in the murder of her husband and suicide: “her search, her hope for an escape and the associated futility which becomes despair – this all becomes ‘music out of music’”, says Philipp Maintz. »more«

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Currently in demand: Small-scale Orchestral Works

Do you wish to play orchestral music while keeping your distance from the other players? 
From the Baroque period to the present day, music history offers a rich repertoire of pieces composed for string orchestra, chamber orchestra or small symphony orchestra.

Due to the current situation, we have compiled this catalogue which presents a selection of works available from Bärenreiter - Alkor. 

Recommendations by Barbara Scheuch-Vötterle and Ulrich Etscheit

 

Currently in demand: Small-scale Stage Works

We would like to support you in your strategies and scenarios at this time, when under difficult conditions, operas are gradually being allowed to be performed live again in front of an audience. We are convinced that small-scale stage works, whether concertante or in various scenic forms, will certainly play an important role at this stage and have compiled a suitable selection of our repertoire for you.

Recommendations by Barbara Scheuch-Vötterle and Ulrich Etscheit

 

Bärenreiter · Alkor

...is the stage and orchestral department of the Barenreiter Publishing Group. Here you can obtain all performance material available on hire from the repertoire of Bärenreiter, its affiliated publishers, and publishers in Germany and abroad represented by Bärenreiter · Alkor.

As an agency for stage and orchestral works, Bärenreiter · Alkor represents furthermore renowned German and foreign music publishers worldwide or in selected sales territories, including Faber Music London, DILIA Prague, Musikwissenschaftlicher Verlag Wien, Georg Olms Verlag Hildesheim, Casa Musicale Sonzogno Milan, Editions Henry Lemoine Paris and Rai Com Rome.

Now in Focus

Conquest opera - Gaspare Spontini’s “Fernand Cortez” 
The Emperor Napoleon, like Hernán Cortés, saw himself as the conqueror of great empires. Gaspare Spontini was intended to bring the fame of Cortés to the operatic stage. Hence the genesis of the opera “Fernand Cortez”. But when the Emperor was defeated, a complicated series of reworkings of the opera began. 
“Fernand Cortez” is thus the opera which occupied Spontini for an exceptionally long time: with interruptions, he worked on the score for a total of 24 years. In particular, the third and fourth versions document his struggles to find a satisfactory solution for the ending. It also seems typical of the composer’s artistic late phase, which was characterized by waning artistic inspiration but at the same time, an increased perfectionism taken to extremes.
The Theater Dortmund was staging on April, 7, 2022, the third version of 1824, conducted by Christoph JK Müller and staged by Eva-Maria Höckmayr. 

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