Orchestral Masterpieces Under the Microscope

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-78327-732-2
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, 736 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 1518 g

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repertoire are beset by textual problems: simple misprints, mistakes in the score or player's part, or hopelessly outdated scores at odds with current scholarship.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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Del Mar, Jonathan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Sinfonische Musik & Ensembles
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Enzyklopädien, Nachschlagewerke, Wörterbücher

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Editorial Conventions

Bartok

Piano Concerto No.1
Violin Concerto No.2
Dance Suite
Beethoven

Symphonies: some supplementary remarks
Overture Leonore No.2
Overture Leonore No.3
Overture King Stephen
Berlioz

Symphonie fantastique
Harold in Italy
Overtures
Bloch

Schelomo: Hebraic rhapsody for cello and orchestra
Brahms

Four Symphonies
Piano Concerto No.1 in D minor
Violin Concerto in D
Hungarian Dances: a brief guide
Bruch

Violin Concerto No.1 in G minor
Busoni

Piano Concerto
Debussy

Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Dvorák

Scherzo capriccioso
Symphonic Variations
Romance for violin and orchestra
Serenade for strings
Elgar

Variations on an Original Theme ('Enigma')
Concert-Overture: Froissart
Concert-Overture: Cockaigne
Concert-Overture: In the South (Alassio)
Sea Pictures
Serenade for Strings in E minor
Fauré, orch. Aubert

Fantaisie for Flute
Franck

Symphony in D minor
Haydn

Symphonies with High Horns
Symphony No.100 in G ('Military')
Symphony No.104 in D ('London')
Liszt

Piano Concerto No.1 in E flat
Piano Concerto No.2 in A
Mahler

Symphony No.2 in C minor
Martinu

Rhapsody-Concerto for viola and orchestra
Mendelssohn

Symphony No.3 in A minor ('Scottish')
Symphony No.4 in A ('Italian')
Violin Concerto in E minor
Overture The Hebrides
Mozart

Piano Concertos
Mussorgsky, orch. Ravel

Pictures from an Exhibition
Nielsen

Sinfonia espansiva (Symphony No.3)
Prokofiev

Classical Symphony (Symphony No.1)
Peter and the Wolf
Rachmaninov

Symphony No.2 in E minor
Piano Concerto No.2 in C minor
Ravel

Piano Concerto
La Valse
Le Tombeau de Couperin
Pavane pour une infante défunte
Respighi

Fontane di Roma
Rimsky-Korsakov

Symphonic Suite: Scheherazade
Capriccio Espagnol
Rossini

Overture William Tell
Saint-Saëns

Symphony No.3 in C minor
Cello Concerto No.1 in A minor
Schubert

Overture Die Zauberharfe ('Rosamunde')
Schumann
Symphony No.4 in D minor
Overture, Scherzo and Finale
Cello Concerto in A minor
Overture Genoveva
Shostakovich

Cello Concerto No.1 in E flat
Sibelius

Symphony No.2 in D
Symphony No.3 in C
Symphony No.4 in A minor
Symphony No.5 in E flat
Symphony No.6 in D minor
Symphony No.7 in C
Violin Concerto in D minor
Tapiola
Smetana

Má Vlast: 2. Vltava
Má Vlast: 3. Šárka
Strauss

Ein Heldenleben
Horn Concerto No.1 in E flat
Oboe Concerto
Metamorphosen: Study for 23 Solo Strings
Tchaikovsky

Symphony No.2 in C minor
Symphony No.3 in D
Symphony No.4 in F minor
Symphony No.5 in E minor
Symphony No.6 in B minor, 'Pathétique'
Piano Concerto No.1 in B flat minor
Violin Concerto in D
Fantasy-Overture after Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Tippett

Symphony No.2 in C
Vaughan Williams

A London Symphony (Symphony No. 2)
Pastoral Symphony (Symphony No. 3)
Tuba Concerto
Wagner

Prelude Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Walton

Cello Concerto
Weber

Overture Der Beherrscher der Geister
Overture Der Freischütz
Overture Oberon

Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Del Mar, Jonathan
JONATHAN DEL MAR is a conductor and musicologist. His Beethoven editions are published by Bärenreiter and performed by orchestras and ensembles worldwide.

JONATHAN DEL MAR is a conductor and musicologist. His Beethoven editions are published by Baerenreiter and performed by orchestras and ensembles around the world.