Double concerto (solo: db - 0.2.2.2.(bsn ad lib.) - 2.2.0.0 - timp(ad lib.) - hps - str(vl obl)) SKU: BR.PB-15114
With violino obbligato - Urtext. Composed by Franz Anton Hoffmeister. Edited by Tobias Glockler. Orchestra; stapled. Partitur-Bibliothek (Score Library). In Cooperation with G. Henle Verlag
Solo concerto; Classical. Full score. 40 pages. Duration 18'. Breitkopf and Haertel #PB 15114. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.PB-15114). ISBN 9790004212066. 10 x 12.5 inches.
Thanks to its imaginative richness and sterling writing, Hoffmeister's Double Bass Concerto No. 1 has advanced to the rank of a popular audition concerto. But when compared with the transmitted sources, the previously available first edition of 1966 proved to be filled with errors. Tobias Glockler, double-bass player of the Dresdner Philharmonie, now presents a reliable Urtext in this edition. Through his competence as an instrumentalist, he even goes considerably further and offers various performance possibilities: the solo part can be played not only in solo and orchestral tuning, but also in the historical Viennese tuning. The C-major version, which is offered on hire, allows performances in orchestral tuning. The orchestral material in D major (sales material) is suited to the other two tunings. A beautiful and easy to read score, elegantly laid-out and with illuminating and informative preface notes. This concerto is among our most beautiful classical concerti, lyrical and inventive. It is a great pleasure to see our classical repertoire appear in such critical editions. (Rob Nairn in Bass World).
