Praise for Our Editions

Selected Comments from Reviews

Orlando di Lasso
The Complete Motets
Edited by Peter Bergquist

Recent Researches in the Music of the Renaissance (The Lasso Motet Edition)

"The initiative of Peter Bergquist to publish an entirely new complete edition of Lasso's motets in the series Recent Researches in the Music of the Renaissance is very welcome. Bergquist serves as general editor for the edition as a whole and editor for five of the volumes, with other Lasso scholars editing the remaining volumes. . . . This is a superb edition of Lasso's motets, highly recommended to scholars, students, and performers. When complete, it should become a standard item in research libraries worldwide."
- Jessie Ann Owens in Notes

Giovanni Rovetta
Messa, e salmi concertati, op. 4 (1639)
Edited by Linda Maria Koldau
Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era (B109, B110)

"A new, two-volume modern edition of a major Mass and Vespers collection by a seventeenth-century Venetian composer would be a welcome addition to the corpus of early baroque music under almost any circumstances, but it is especially so when the composer is Giovanni Rovetta. . . . Koldau's carefully documented introduction provides an overview of the collection in light of its commission, of its place in Rovetta's life and career, of the musico-historical context within which to evaluate his settings, and of the performance practice issues that arise from the score. . . ."
- Massimo Ossi in Notes

Giuseppe Torelli
Concerti musicali, Opus 6
Edited by John Suess
Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era (B115)

"[They] continue to produce important editions in their series 'Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era.'" Notable among recent issues is a complete edition of Torelli's Concerti musicali, Opus 6, of 1698. . . ."
- Peter Holman in Early Music

Marco da Gagliano
Madrigals, Part 1: Il primo libro de madrigali a cinque voci (Venice, 1602)
Edited by Edmond Strainchamps
Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era (B124)

"Edmond Strainchamp's edition of Gagliano's primo libro . . . is again produced in fine style by A-R Editions. The prefatory essays are well written and informative, the texts are sensitively translated, and the musical analysis enlightening for both theorist and performer. . . ."
- Laurie Stras in Early Music

Arias for Nancy Storace: Mozart's First Susanna
Edited by Dorothea Link
Recent Researches in the Music of the Classical Era (C66)

"This is an excellent publication. . . . I, for one shall return to this volume often, and hope to see these pieces in general recital or orchestral repertory."
- Emma Kirkby in Early Music

Gustav Mahler
Die drei Pintos: Based on Sketches and Original Music of Carl Maria von Weber
Edited by James L. Zychowicz
Recent Researches in the Music of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (N30, N31)

"The new score is carefully and beautifully prepared in every detail, and the critical apparatus is as complete as it is expert. . . .The score, presented in two volumes, is as beautifully and flawlessly printed as any I have ever seen. . . ."
- Mark DeVoto in Notes

Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Twelve Select Overtures
Edited by Mark Kroll
Recent Researches in the Music of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (N35)

"All in all, this edition provides an invaluable resource for any student of commercial musical life in the early nineteenth century desiring insight into , espeically, the tastes and activities of musical amateurs, and, together with its companion volume in the series [N29], it also sheds new light on a significant face of Hummel's multifarious activities."
- R. H. Stewart-MacDonald in Music & Letters

Motets for One Voice by Franck, Gounod, and Saint-Saëns
Edited by Richard Benefield
Recent Researches in the Music of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (N36)

"In Motets for One Voice by Franck, Gounod, and Saint-Saëns Richard Benefield draws welcome attention to a body of music for which the all too often invoked word 'neglected' seems an understatement. . . ."
- Lawrence Archbold in Music & Letters

Franz Lachner
Two Woodwind Quintets
Edited by L. Jonathan Saylor
Recent Researches in the Music of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (N39)

"With the publication of these two interesting works for wind quintet, there is now more of an alternative to the traditional domination of the early romantic wind quintet genre by Reicha and Franz Danzi. These [Lachner's] are both delightful works, composed with great skill for the wind player, and I am sure [the Two Woodwind Quintets] would be very successful and well-received additions to a typical wind quintet recital program. I recommend them strongly to both professional and amateur quintets looking for interesting old-but-new music to perform."
- Ronald Klimko in The Double Reed

George F. Bristow
The Oratorio of Daniel, Opus 42
Edited by David Griggs-Janower
Recent Researches in American Music (A34)

". . .  Prior to this publication by A-R Editions, Daniel existed only in the holograph score, a full set of orchestral parts, and vocal score housed in the Performing Arts Division of the New York Public Library, and we are fortunate to have so careful and attractive an edition now available"
- Robert M. Copeland in Notes

Clara Kathleen Rogers
Chamber Music
Edited by Judith Radell and Dieter Wulfhorst
Recent Researches in American Music (A42)

". . .  Now that there is renewed interest in the broad range of nineteenth-century repertoire, these works are well worth "looks" from musicians, and performances, too. . . . As is usual in the various Recent Researches series, the scores are well presented and properly edited - and the front matter is exemplary."
- Catherine Parsons Smith in Notes

George Whitefield Chadwick
Two Overtures: Rip Van Winkle (1879) and Adonais (1899)
Edited by Bill Faucett
Recent Researches in American Music (A55)

". . .  Little needs to be said about the elegant work of A-R Editions on the appearance of this score. The music fills the page and is most readable and appealing. Faucett's critical report is as detailed and precise as his earlier essays, particularly considering that relatively few original sources are available for these works. . . . All in all, this volume is an eloquent introduction into the Recent Researches series for a pivotal figure in American music. Chadwick scholars, as well as any concerned with the development of American music or the preservation of a classic-romantic style in the late nineteenth century, will find this a rewarding and well-developed critical introduction to a composer whose reputation, while far advanced from a few decades ago, still awaits further needed restoration."
- Charles S. Freeman in the Journal of Musicological Research

Writing American Indian Music: Historic Transcriptions, Notations, and Arrangements
Edited by Victoria Lindsay Levine
Music of the United States of America (MU 11)

"Unquestionably the most important recent contribution to the study of Native American music, this publication belongs in every music library. . . . . [It] should be of interest generally to ethnomusicologists, whatever their specialty."
- Thomas Vennum in Ethnomusicology

Charles Ives: 129 Songs
Edited by H. Wiley Hitchcock
Music of the United States of America (MU 12)

". . . Hitchcock's edition must be regarded as the most significant publishing event for Ives's vocal output since 114 Songs in 1922. . . ."
- Peter Dickinson in Music & Letters

"For the Ives enthusiast, the exhaustive historical and critical material contained in this edition will be of great interest. . . . this volume should be in every music library. . . . ."
- Judith Carman in The Journal of Singing

Other Comments

"Impeccably researched and produced series. . . ."

- Judy Tarling, Baroque String Playing for Ingeniuous Learners

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