Overtures (Full Score hardback)

Berlioz Overtures (Full Score hardback)

- New Berlioz Edition Vol.20

New Edition of the Complete Works
Edited by the Berlioz Centenary Committee, London, in cooperation with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lissabon | General Editor: Hugh MacDonald

The music of Hector Berlioz has undergone a noteworthy renaissance in the latter half of the 20th century, thanks to the work of British musicians and musicologists. The New Berlioz Edition made a significant contribution to this renaissance; the first complete edition of „Les Troyens“ brought about a thorough re-evaluation of Berlioz as an opera composer. The rediscovery of the Messe solennelle of 1824 again drew international attention to Berlioz's music.

The New Berlioz Edition does full justice to the complex state of the sources surrounding many of the composer's works, incorporating the latest research findings and discoveries. In each volume the works are generally arranged in chronological order. Libretti are presented in their original language. Each volume contains a detailed preface, a critical report and facsimiles. Rejected versions, drafts and other material appear in the appendices.

“A great genius can be given no more worthy testimonial to his honour than an accurate edition of his complete works.” (Ludwig Ritter von Köchel, 1875)

Full performance materials based on the New Berlioz Edition are available to all Berlioz’s works. Piano reductions and study scores to many works are available on sale. Each volume contains a foreword by the editor (in English, French and German), a critical report (in English) discussing all of the sources and divergent readings, instructive facsimiles drawn from the sources used to prepare the edition, and appendices presenting abandoned versions, deleted passages, drafts etc.