Violin and orchestra (solo: vl - 2.2.2.2 - 2.2(or 2corn).0.0 - timp - str) SK...(+)
Violin and orchestra
(solo: vl - 2.2.2.2 -
2.2(or 2corn).0.0 - timp
- str)
SKU:
BR.PB-15155
Urtext. Composed
by Camille Saint-Saens.
Edited by Peter Jost.
Orchestra; stapled.
Partitur-Bibliothek
(Score Library).
In
Cooperation with G. Henle
Verlag
Solo concerto;
Romantic; Late-romantic.
Full score. 40 pages.
Duration 9'. Breitkopf
and Haertel #PB 15155.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel
(BR.PB-15155).
ISBN
9790004215609. 10 x 12.5
inches.
Many
well-known violinists
such as the dedicatee
Pablo de Sarasate,
together later with
Eugene Ysaye and Jacques
Thibaud, included in
their repertoires Camille
Saint-Saens' concert
piece composed in 1863.
Even today, concert life
is hard to imagine
without the Introduction
et Rondo capriccioso. The
highly virtuosic work
already inspired critics
and audiences during the
composer's lifetime;
reported about the
premiere in 1867 was: The
Introduction and the
Rondo capriccioso for the
same instrument are both
original and charming,
and Maestro Sarasate, who
was in his element here,
admirably made the most
of it. And a few years
later, a music critic
described the work as a
kind of fantasy waltz in
the Spanish style and
with a most bewitching
effect. After the first
performances in 1867,
despite success, the
work's score and
orchestral parts had
little chance of
publication due to
concert companies'
reluctance. In 1869 the
Paris publishing house G.
Hartmann merely published
an arrangement for violin
and piano produced by the
composer's friend Georges
Bizet. The orchestral
score and parts were
first published after the
Paris publishing house
Durand had acquired
publication rights in
1875. The present edition
published in
collaboration with the G.
Henle Verlag is the first
critical edition of the
work.
Urtext. Composed
by Johann Sebastian Bach.
Edited by Klaus Hofmann.
Orchestra; stapled.
Partitur-Bibliothek
(Score Library).
Bach's manuscript
leaves several questions
unanswered.
Solo
concerto; Baroque. Full
score. 24 pages. Duration
16'. Breitkopf and
Haertel #PB 5354.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel (BR.PB-5354).
ISBN 9790004211533. 9
x 12 inches.
When
an editorial formula
proves to be as
compelling as in the case
of the E-major Concerto
BWV 1042, then its
obvious that it is going
to be applied again: this
time to Klaus Hofmanns
new Urtext edition of the
A-minor Concerto. Bachs
manuscript leaves several
questions unanswered. The
slurring, particularly in
the solo part, is once
again equivocal and
inconsistent. Bach
himself expected his
performers to be
creative, which is why
the interpretative
suggestions of Baroque
expert Sigiswald Kuijken
are particularly welcome.
The edition for violin
and keyboard instrument
(with continuo ad lib.)
once again contains three
violin parts (the first
unmarked, the second with
markings and comments by
Sigiswald Kuijken, the
third as a facsimile).
This provides
well-grounded stimuli for
ones own personal
interpretation based on
historically informed
performance practice. The
keyboard arrangement by
Siegfried Petrenz is
transparent and easy to
play. A violoncello part
has been added for
chamber-music.
Bac
h's manuscript leaves
several questions
unanswered.