Au cours d'une période de 50 ans, Haydn a composé plus de 80 quatuors à cordes mettant en vedette une gamme et la variété de l'invention structurelle dépassé que par les oeuvres de Beethoven. Dans ce volume, la maîtrise du compositeur de la forme est frappante, en particulier dans les six populaires et bien-enregistré 'Quatuors prussiens.'Les grandes têtes de notes lisibles, de larges marges pour les notations, papier opaque et contraignantes permanentes en font un ajout fondamental aux bibliothèques musicales et des répertoires des musiciens.Réimpression de Ernst Eulenburg, Londres, n.d. édition. / Quatuor A Cordes

Par BARTOK BELA. Bartók?s Second String Quartet was composed ? with several long interruptions ? between 1915 and 1918, after he had spent several years almost solely devoted to collecting folk music. The melody and rhythms of the riotous middle movement ?Allegro, molto capriccioso? provide impressive testimony of how his research trips had taken him as far as North Africa. The first edition of this quartet, published in Vienna in 1920, contains a conspicuous number of errors that were only partially corrected in a later revision undertaken by Bartók. As late as the 1940s he noted changes in his personal copy of the score that have never previously appeared in print. These late changes by Bartók are taken into account in this definitive edition of the string quartets supervised by Bartók scholar László Somfai, with problematic passages in the sources carefully documented. It is the first-ever Urtext edition of this work. Sensible page turns and cue notes in the parts mean that this edition is ideal for exploring Bartók?s sound world in performance. / Date parution : 2023-05-06/ Répertoire / Quatuor à Cordes

Par BARTOK BELA. Bartók?s Second String Quartet was composed ? with several long interruptions ? between 1915 and 1918, after he had spent several years almost solely devoted to collecting folk music. The melody and rhythms of the riotous middle movement ?Allegro, molto capriccioso? provide impressive testimony of how his research trips had taken him as far as North Africa. The first edition of this quartet, published in Vienna in 1920, contains a conspicuous number of errors that were only partially corrected in a later revision undertaken by Bartók. As late as the 1940s he noted changes in his personal copy of the score that have never previously appeared in print. These late changes by Bartók are taken into account in this definitive edition of the string quartets supervised by Bartók scholar László Somfai, with problematic passages in the sources carefully documented. It is the first-ever Urtext edition of this work. Sensible page turns and cue notes in the parts mean that this edition is ideal for exploring Bartók?s sound world in performance. / Date parution : 2023-05-06/ Répertoire / Quatuor à Cordes

Par COUPERIN FRANCOIS. Couperin Concerts royaux 1722 (Score and Parts) This edition contains Couperin?s four ?Concerts royaux?, which were published in 1722 as part of Book III of his ?Pièces de clavecin?. For the first time it makes these pieces, scored for chamber ensemble, separately available in an Urtext edition. It is based on the musical text of the solo harpsichord version found in the pioneering new edition of ?Pièces de clavecin III? (BA 10846). The editor has painstakingly evaluated the many impressions of the original print, most of which he himself discovered in libraries throughout the world. The preface (Fr/Eng) contains informative details on historical performance practice and on the conception of the ?Concerts royaux?, which Couperin expressly intended to be performed either by solo harpsichord or with accompanying ensemble. The modern engraving preserves essential features of the original print, which largely avoids page-turns within the pieces. It thereby brings today?s players close to the special sound of this music in a fascinating way. Couperin?s table of embellishments and symbols as well as a glossary (Fr/Eng) and a detailed Critical Commentary (Eng) round off this long-overdue Urtext edition. - First separate Urtext edition of the ?Concerts royaux? for chamber ensemble, based on the pioneering new edition of Book III of the ?Pièces de clavecin? (BA 10846) - Preserves essential features of the original notation as well as Couperin?s original embellishment signs - Notes on historical performance practice, glossary, Couperin?s table of embellishments and symbols (Fr/Eng) and detailed Critical Commentary (Eng) / Date parution : 2022-05-31/ Recueil / Ensemble de Chambre