Original Version - Edition for Cello and Piano. Par SCHUMANN ROBERT. Schumann’s Cello Concerto Rediscovered In her first Urtext edition for Edition Peters, internationally renowned cellist Josephine Knight reveals Robert Schumann’s original version of his Cello Concerto in A minor Op. 129 – a piece he actually called a ‘Concertstück’ – removing generations of inauthentic editorial interventions. This is the only available modern scholarly edition of the work as Schumann originally conceived it, and restores the text from October 1850, based on the composer’s manuscript held in the Biblioteka Jagiellonska in Kraków. This Full Score matches the separately available edition for Cello and Piano (EP 73488). Matching orchestral material is also available from the publisher. Only modern Urtext edition based on Schumann’s original 1850 manuscript Many new corrections and clarifications, especially to the cello part Scholarly preface detailing history of the work and this edition by editor Josephine Knight, Piatti Professor of Cello at the Royal Academy of Music London Cello Part contains Josephine Knight's fingering and bowing suggestions Critical Commentary Cello and piano edition available separately from Edition Peters: orchestral parts available for rental Recording of the Concertstück featuring Josephine Knight available from Dutton Robert Schumann’s tragic last years have mired many of his greatest works in unnecessary doubt. The story of the suppression of his Violin Concerto by well-meaning friends is relatively well-known. Few, however, know that the version of the Cello Concerto that is routinely heard today is so far from Schumann’s original conception of the work – not only in details of phrasing and articulation, but also featuring a different ending with a bold final flourish from the cello. Composed in a burst of inspiration in two weeks in October 1850 shortly after he and Clara had moved to Düsseldorf, Schumann (who in 1850 was still in good health) never heard the piece performed. In an effort to promote a performance of the work, he gave the score to the cellist Robert Emil Bockmühl. Bockmühl made revisions that Schumann resisted, and the hoped-for performance never happened. Schumann’s health failed and he died aged just 46 in 1856. The Concerto, in an already substantially revised form, was premiered in 1860 but it was not given significant recognition until it was championed by Pablo Casals in the 20th century by which time (and since) the text for the work had accreted additions and alterations from generations of soloists. Now Josephine Knight, Piatti Professor of Cello at the Royal Academy of Music, London has returned to the original 1850 manuscript of the work, which is in the Biblioteka Jagiellonska in Kraków, to reveal Schumann’s original thoughts for the first time in a modern Urtext edition. The edition reflects Schumann’s original conception of the work as a Concertstück and restores Schumann’s musical text, free of posthumous interventions. ‘My ultimate wish,’ says the editor, ‘is to give performers both access to, and confidence that they are playing from, an edition which is a true representation of the piece in its original form, no matter how much more difficult this might be. I found that incorporating the changes enabled the piece to take on a completely different character – one that is lighter and happier, even “cheerful”, as Schumann himself described the work.'/ Répertoire / Violoncelle et Piano

Ein Stück - eine Lage. Mit 14 groovigen Stücken zum Lagenprofi am Cello.. Par SOLLNER JOHANNES. / Date parution : 2022-01-14/ Recueil / Violoncelle et Piano

Suite pour violoncelle et piano. Par LAKS SIMON. Simon Laks (1901-1983), who moved from Warsaw to Paris in 1926 at the age of 25, belonged to the large group of composers from Central and Eastern European countries who went down in 20th-century music history as the „École de Paris“. Slavic temperament amalgamated in their music with French esprit, the folklore of their native countries combined with the stylistic elements of neoclassicism and jazz typical of the time. As a member of the „Association of Young Polish Musicians“, Laks quickly made his way into French musical life. However, his career was ended with the beginning of World War 2 due to the collaboration of the Vichy government with Nazi Germany. Internment in 1941 was followed by deportation to Auschwitz in 1942. Laks survived the Shoah as a member and later leader of a camp band in Birkenau, which he testified to in his moving book Music in Auschwitz. After the traumatic experiences, Laks did not return to regular compositional activity until the 1960s, producing an opera, songs, and chamber music works, some of which were awarded important composition prizes. At the peak of this optimistic creative phase, he composed incidental music for Peretz Hirschbein's famous Yiddish comedy Dem Schmids Techter (The Blacksmith's Daughters), which premiered in New York in 1918, for a new production of the play at the Théâtre de l’Entrepôt in Paris. Along with Prokofiev's Overture on Hebrew Themes and Shostakovich's cycle From Yiddish (Jewish) Folk Poetry, it is one of the most significant 20th-century explorations of art music with Jewish folklore – homage to a culture irreparably destroyed. From the original score, Holger Groschopp compiled two suites, for violoncello and piano and piano solo, that capture the essence of Lak‘s enchanting drama music. The premiere recording of the suites with Holger Groschopp and Adele Bitter was awarded the Opus Klassik 2023 in the category Editorial Achievement of the Year. . / Date parution : 2024-01-06/ Répertoire / Violoncelle et Piano

Pour Violoncelle Avec Accompagnement De Piano. Par OFFENBACH JACQUES. Offenbach a composé Prière et Boléro, également connue sous le nom de Grande scène espagnole, en 1840 pour son usage personnel. Cette pièce l'a accompagné dans sa carrière de violoncelliste virtuose jusqu'à ses dernières apparitions publiques dans les années 1860. Il l'a jouée devant les têtes couronnées d'Europe au château de Windsor, dans des tournées en France et en Allemagne, ainsi qu'à Cologne avec Franz Lizst au piano. À l'origine configurée en un cycle de quatre mouvements, le compositeur a lui-même supprimé deux mouvements - Zamabada-Ronde des muletiers, Sérénade - aujourd'hui disparus, juste avant leur publication sous le numéro d'opus 22. Dans un mélange entre intériorité méditative et virtuosité frénétique, Prière et Boléro est un autoportrait d'un des compositeurs les plus complexes du XIXe siècle./ Répertoire / Violoncelle et Piano

Die Trois Pièces de concert verströmen rundum französisches Flair. Simon Laks komponierte sie in seinen frühen Pariser Jahren für den ehemaligen Solocellisten des Königlichen Concertgebouw Orchesters, Gérard Hekking, der seit 1927 am Conservatoire lehrte. Der erste Satz variiert ein raffiniert-schlichtes eigenes Thema und bleibt dabei, trotz aller virtuosen Capricen, immer nonchalant. Der langsame zweite Satz ist eine melancholische Romanze über Blues-Harmonien, und der dritte ein Perpetuum mobile - ein Satztypus, den zur selben Epoche etwa auch Maurice Ravel in seiner Kammermusik ähnlich verwandte.Laks schuf von seiner für Violoncello und Klavier vorgesehen Komposition auch eine Fassung für Violine und Klavier - lange verschollen, wurde sie vor wenigen Jahren für die CD-Einspielung bei eda records rekonstruiert / Violoncelle Et Piano

Par LAKS SIMON. Szymon Laks 'Sonate pour violoncelle en 1936 par Maurice Maréchal, les violoncellistes de renom français de son temps, et le spécialiste de Ravel Vlado Perlemuter dans Laks 'la maison de Paris a adopté soulevé par le baptême. Cette plante élégante, virtuose et parfaitement en forme est le Néoclassicisme français et - surtout dans sa seconde (blues) et le troisième mouvement (Perpetuum mobile) - Ravel engagé. Elle montre un jeune compositeur à la hauteur de sa maîtrise, qui se trouvait sur son chemin vers le succès international, comme le déclenchement de la 2e Seconde Guerre mondiale et la collaboration du régime de Vichy et l'Allemagne nazie, sa carrière a pris fin abruptement. Laks a été déporté à Auschwitz et a survécu à l'Holocauste comme un meneur d'hommes dans la chapelle du camp d'extermination de Birkenau. Ce joyau de la littérature pour violoncelle était épuisée depuis des décennies et est finalement vu et corrigé par une réimpression de la première édition à nouveau disponible. '... Un travail unique et inoubliable à partir de 1932, les influences du jazz, intense contrepoint comme Ravel et alla montre Honneger, mais qui est vraiment différent de tout ce dans le répertoire. Après un Andante Allegro robuste et bluesy suivie par un transfert modal avec brio attractif finales, presque minimaliste dans ses ostinatos hypnotiques. ' BBC Music Magazine / Niveau : Avancé / Répertoire / Violoncelle et Piano