A must-have for any conductor, conducting student and orchestral librarian.
How does a conductor know whether the score they use is what the composer wrote? How do orchestral players know that their parts are reliable and reflect the latest scholarship? As Jonathan Del Mar reminds us in this ground-breaking book, editions of the orchestral repertoire are beset by textual problems: simple misprints, mistakes in the score or player's part, or hopelessly outdated scores at odds with current scholarship.
Driven by a fundamental respect for what the composer actually wrote, Jonathan Del Mar addresses these problems through textual reports on over 100 orchestral masterpieces of classical music. Each report is introduced with essential guidance and succinct commentary on the first performance and publication of the work. Critical editions are compared with commonly used editions, and in those cases where no Urtext Edition exists, this much-needed reference work functions as a replacement for an Urtext Edition.
Orchestral Masterpieces under the Microscope will be an indispensable reference tool for all who care about performances honouring the correct text that composers have left us. It serves as an essential survival guide for conductors and musicians to make informed choices, and it offers much-needed clarity on the latest scholarship for musicologists and music librarians alike
Author(s): Jonathan Del Mar
Publisher: Boydell Press
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 734
City: Woodbridge
Front cover
Contents
Preface
Editorial Conventions
Bartók Piano Concerto No.1
Bartók Violin Concerto No.2
Bartók Dance Suite
Beethoven Symphonies: some supplementary remarks
Beethoven Overture Leonore No.2
Beethoven Overture Leonore No.3
Beethoven Overture King Stephen
Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique
Berlioz Harold in Italy
Berlioz Overtures
Bloch Schelomo: Hebraic Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra
Brahms Four Symphonies
Brahms Piano Concerto No.1
Brahms Violin Concerto
Brahms Hungarian Dances: a brief guide
Bruch Violin Concerto No.1
Busoni Piano Concerto
Debussy Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune
Dvořák Scherzo capriccioso
Dvořák Symphonic Variations
Dvořák Romance for Violin and Orchestra
Dvořák Serenade for Strings
Elgar Variations on an Original Theme (‘Enigma’)
Elgar Concert-Overture Froissart
Elgar Concert-Overture Cockaigne
Elgar Concert-Overture In the South (Alassio)
Elgar Sea Pictures
Elgar Serenade for Strings
Fauré Fantaisie for Flute
Franck Symphony
Haydn Symphonies with High Horns
Haydn Symphony No.100 (‘Military’)
Haydn Symphony No.104 ('London')
Liszt Piano Concerto No.1
Liszt Piano Concerto No.2
Mahler Symphony No.2
Martinů Rhapsody-Concerto for Viola and Orchestra
Mendelssohn Symphony No.3 ('Scottish')
Mendelssohn Symphony No.4 ('Italian')
Mendelssohn Violin Concerto
Mendelssohn Overture The Hebrides (‘Fingal’s Cave’)
Mozart Piano Concertos
Mussorgsky, orch. Ravel Pictures from an Exhibition
Nielsen Sinfonia espansiva (Symphony No.3)
Prokofiev Classical Symphony
Prokofiev Peter and the Wolf
Rachmaninov Symphony No.2
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.2
Ravel Piano Concerto
Ravel La Valse
Ravel Le Tombeau de Couperin
Ravel Pavane pour une infante défunte
Respighi Fontane di Roma
Rimsky-Korsakov Symphonic Suite: Scheherazade
Rimsky-Korsakov Capriccio espagnol
Rossini Overture William Tell
Saint-Saëns Symphony No.3
Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto No.1
Schubert Overture Die Zauberharfe (‘Rosamunde’)
Schumann Symphony No.4
Schumann Overture, Scherzo and Finale
Schumann Cello Concerto
Schumann Overture Genoveva
Shostakovich Cello Concerto No.1
Sibelius Symphony No.2
Sibelius Symphony No.3
Sibelius Symphony No.4
Sibelius Symphony No.5
Sibelius Symphony No.6
Sibelius Symphony No.7
Sibelius Violin Concerto
Sibelius Tapiola
Smetana Má Vlast: 2. Vltava
Smetana Má Vlast: 3. Šárka
Strauss Ein Heldenleben
Strauss Horn Concerto No.1
Strauss Oboe Concerto
Strauss Metamorphosen
Tchaikovsky Symphony No.2
Tchaikovsky Symphony No.3
Tchaikovsky Symphony No.4
Tchaikovsky Symphony No.5
Tchaikovsky Symphony No.6
Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No.1
Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto
Tchaikovsky Fantasy-Overture after Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Tippett Symphony No.2
Vaughan Williams A London Symphony (Symphony No.2)
Vaughan Williams Pastoral Symphony (Symphony No.3)
Vaughan Williams Tuba Concerto
Wagner Prelude Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Walton Cello Concerto
Weber Overture Der Beherrscher der Geister
Weber Overture Der Freischütz
Weber Overture Oberon
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