Universal Edition

I was graced with a pleasant period, and I believe it is more personal than anything else I have done until now. (Gustav Mahler, 1908, to Bruno Walter) Universal Edition continues its new study score...

Eastern exoticism, French impressionism and perfumed lyricism: Polish composer Karol Szymanowski in war-torn Europe in 1916 providing ecstasy without the agony in what he called 'a new style and new t...

Universal Edition issues a handsome new study score of one of Szymanowski's finest works. The Symphony's foundation is a captivating Persian poem, and text is included in Polish, German, and English.

The rhapsody for orchestra 'Taras Bulba' is the most important and on account of its genesis the most interesting of the three programmatic orchestral works the composer wrote between 1914 and 1920. A...

Die 'Symphonie Nr. 5' markiert einen Wendepunkt in Gustav Mahlers Leben. Erstmals wandte er sich nach seiner 'Symphonie Nr. 1' wieder der reinen Instrumentalmusik zu. Der Beginn seiner Arbeit daran is...