“Which edition is the best?” This is always the question that precedes my answer, “Bärenreiter Urtext”, when people ask me about editions of works by the German speaking composers. My...
I would like to warmly congratulate Bärenreiter on its anniversary! Bärenreiter scores have accompanied me all my musical life and I am very happy to be connected to the publisher....
Knowing Bärenreiter’s scholarship can be trusted gives me confidence to make decisions about the music. If I want to go deeper, introductions and critical commentaries provide both context and further...
My first experience with a Bärenreiter edition was purchasing my beautiful deep red scores of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro. I was struck by the clarity and proportion of the...
Bärenreiter has accompanied me throughout my career, from when I covered the role of Susanna in “Le nozze di Figaro” at the Juilliard School right through to this summer where...
Ever since I came across my first pocket score of the Beethoven Symphonies edited by Jonathan Del Mar, I have been using Bärenreiter. It’s always a showcase of deep research...
It is a special feeling to open a Bärenreiter score for the first time! These editions are the epitome of musical integrity and the degree of faithfulness to the composer’s...
Bärenreiter has been our go-to Urtext source of trust for as far as we can remember. While they have through the years become famous among musicians for their undisputed editions...
My very first encounter with Bärenreiter editions occurred in my early teenage years. As I was working through the marvellous red Mozart Editions, I was seized by how different his...
The first time we worked with Bärenreiter was with their editorial department on the Janáček quartets – and we immediately felt part of a bustling adventure, felt part of a...
I am so happy and grateful for the valuable musicological work and the resulting new Bärenreiter editions, which enable us musicians to reinterpret the works and thus to advance ever...
Bärenreiter scores hold a special place in my heart. I used a Bärenreiter score to learn Pamina in “Die Zauberflöte” for my professional debut, and I continue using that same...
The Bach Inventions in the blue Bärenreiter edition was the first "real" piece of sheet music I worked from as a child. I mean “work” in the truest sense of...
From my early childhood, my work as both a performer and musicologist has gone hand in hand with the editions of Bärenreiter. Immersing myself in the musical texts of the...
I conducted Kabeláč's Symphony No. 4 for the first time at the Salzburg Festival, at that time still from the old edition. For my Prague Spring Festival debut, we prepared...
