Matériel : Partition + Accès audio
SKU: BR.OB-3210-27
ISBN 9790004300732. 10 x 12.5 inches.
Johannes Brahms' first Piano Concerto was the fruit of a complex, protracted, and extremely trying creative process. Its origin goes back to a sonata in D minor for two pianos conceived in spring 1854. The impulse for the creation of the main subject was however a shocking event: According to Joseqph Joachim, the theme originated after hearing about Schumanns suicide attempt. A few months earlier, Schumann had revealed Brahms to the musical world in his essay New Paths. In this article, Brahms is extolled as the musician who is called to give expression to the feeling of his times in an ideal fashion. The unusually rapid genesis of the D-minor sonata and its prevailingly dark, monumental mood can be interpreted as an impassioned compositional response to Schumann's suicide attempt. However, the year-long struggle to arrive at the final form of the work should perhaps also be seen in the context of the resounding praise of Schumann's prophetic article. Brahms undoubtly felt a growing inner pressure to live up to the expectations aroused therein.Together with Clara Schumann, Brahms played the three so far existing movements of the sonata, but he was very self-critical. He felt that he had not been able to realize the monumentality he had envisioned, and which Clara Schumann felt, by merely doubling the piano sound. He soon decided to transform the sonata into a symphony (his first orchestral project). However, this idea did not seem to fit his vision either. Only in spring 1855 did he strike upon the definitive solution: a piano concerto. With Brahms as soloist, this concerto premiered in 1859, though he initially had little success. He wrote to Joachim about one of the first performances that the concerto was a brilliant and unmistakable - failure. This hardly surprised Brahms, for he was undoubtedly aware of the newness of the work, which surpassed the expectations of the audience. The work's complex structure and symphonic dimensions, the solo part's rejection of showy, elegant brilliance, and the uniquely Brahmsian orchestral density it maintains throughout; all of these qualities inevitably exasperated audiences at first - until they raised this work to the ranks of the most celebrated concertos of all time.
SKU: BR.OB-3210-15
ISBN 9790004300695. 10 x 12.5 inches.
SKU: BR.OB-3210-23
ISBN 9790004300725. 10 x 12.5 inches.
SKU: BR.OB-3210-19
ISBN 9790004300718. 10 x 12.5 inches.
SKU: BR.OB-3210-30
ISBN 9790004300749. 10 x 12.5 inches.
SKU: BR.OB-3210-16
ISBN 9790004300701. 10 x 12.5 inches.
SKU: HL.49019951
ISBN 9783795772604. UPC: 841886021464.
Schum ann: Concerto in A minor, Beethoven: Concerto No. 3, Brahms: Concerto No. 2, Grieg: Concerto in A minor, Mozart: Concerto No. 23, Tchaikovsky: Concerto No. 1, Beethoven: Concerto No. 4, Chopin: Concerto No. 1, Chopin: Concerto No. 2, Liszt: Concerto No. 1.
SKU: BT.PMC1353
Schumann Concerto a minor - Haydn Concerto C major - Boccherini Concerto B major - Tschaikowsky Variations on a Rokoko Theme.
SKU: BR.OB-5302-27
ISBN 9790004340059. 10 x 12.5 inches.
Between Beethoven and Brahms, a long neglected workSchumann's last work for solo instrument and orchestra was not given its premiere until 1937, at which time it was also released in an editorially inadequate version. A re-evaluation of Schumann's late oeuvre began in the 1980s, in the wake of which the missing link between the concertos of Beethoven and Brahms (Yehudi Menuhin) also drew increasing attention. Since then, those in the know have come to appreciate the work, whose unique musical and technical demands challenge for both interpreter and listener.This new edition of what is perhaps the most underestimated masterpiece of the Romantic era is the first meticulously prepared Urtext edition of the score. Nothing short of incredible is the fact that the composer's own piano reduction from which Clara Schumann and Joseph Joachim played the piece is being published here for the first time! Thomas Zehetmair, who has significantly contributed to the re-assessment of the concerto, assumed the task of providing a sound technical basis to his revision of the solo part.Perhaps this edition will help stimulate awareness and appreciation of this unjustly forgotten romantic violin concerto described by Menuhin as the missing link between the concertos by Beethoven to Brahms. (John Thomson, Stringendo)Schuma nn's last work for solo instrument and orchestra was not given its premiere until 1937. This new edition is the first meticulously prepared Urtext edition of the score and the composer's own piano reduction - from which Clara played the piece!
SKU: BR.OB-5302-19
ISBN 9790004340035. 10 x 12.5 inches.
SKU: BR.OB-5302-30
ISBN 9790004340066. 10 x 12.5 inches.
SKU: BR.OB-5302-23
ISBN 9790004340042. 10 x 12.5 inches.
SKU: BR.OB-5302-16
ISBN 9790004340028. 10 x 12.5 inches.
SKU: BR.PB-5317
ISBN 9790004212356. 6.5 x 9 inches.
SKU: BR.OB-15121-19
ISBN 9790004340141. 10 x 12.5 inches.
Schumann's A minor concerto is considered as the ultimate romantic piano concerto. Since the Schumann anniversary year 2010, musicians will be able to base their performance on a complete Urtext edition. The state of the sources is unfortunately patchy, as the original version of the first movement, a Phantasie of 1841 that was given two trial performances, can no longer be reconstructed. On the other hand, the posthumously published score raises certain questions, since it diverges from the editions (solo part and orchestral parts) authorized by Schumann and published in 1846, after the first performance. The pianist Mitsuko Uchida contributed the fingering for the version for two pianos. Schumann's great solo concertos are thus available in their entirety from Breitkopf, in editions prepared with the expert help of major interpreters: the Cello Concerto with Heinrich Schiff and the Violin Concerto with Thomas Zehetmair. Dans l'incomparable qualite de gravure de la plus ancienne maison d'edition musicale au monde! (L'education musicale).
SKU: BR.OB-15121-30
ISBN 9790004340172. 10 x 12.5 inches.