Original Version. Schumann?s Cello Concerto Rediscovered In her first Urtext edition for Edition Peters, internationally renowned cellist Josephine Knight reveals Robert Schumann?s original version of his Cello Concerto in A minor Op. 129 ? a piece he actually called a ?Concertstück? ? removing generations of inauthentic editorial interventions. This is the only available modern scholarly edition of the work as Schumann originally conceived it, and restores the text from October 1850, based on the composer?s manuscript held in the Biblioteka Jagiello?ska in Kraków. This Full Score matches the separately available edition for Cello and Piano (EP 73488). Matching orchestral material is also available from the publisher. Only modern Urtext edition based on Schumann?s original 1850 manuscript Many new corrections and clarifications, especially to the cello part Scholarly preface detailing history of the work and this edition by editor Josephine Knight, Piatti Professor of Cello at the Royal Academy of Music London Cello Part contains Josephine Knight's fingering and bowing suggestions Critical Commentary Cello and piano edition available separately from Edition Peters: orchestral parts available for rental Recording of the Concertstück featuring Josephine Knight available from Dutton Robert Schumann?s tragic last years have mired many of his greatest works in unnecessary doubt. The story of the suppression of his Violin Concerto by well-meaning friends is relatively well-known. Few, however, know that the version of the Cello Concerto that is routinely heard today is so far from Schumann?s original conception of the work ? not only in details of phrasing and articulation, but also featuring a different ending with a bold final flourish from the cello. Composed in a burst of inspiration in two weeks in October 1850 shortly after he and Clara had moved to Düsseldorf, Schumann (who in 1850 was still in good health) never heard the piece performed. In an effort to promote a performance of the work, he gave the score to the cellist Robert Emil Bockmühl. Bockmühl made revisions that Schumann resisted, and the hoped-for performance never happened. Schumann?s health failed and he died aged just 46 in 1856. The Concerto, in an already substantially revised form, was premiered in 1860 but it was not given significant recognition until it was championed by Pablo Casals in the 20th century by which time (and since) the text for the work had accreted additions and alterations from generations of soloists. Now Josephine Knight, Piatti Professor of Cello at the Royal Academy of Music, London has returned to the original 1850 manuscript of the work, which is in the Biblioteka Jagiello?ska in Kraków, to reveal Schumann?s original thoughts for the first time in a modern Urtext edition. The edition reflects Schumann?s original conception of the work as a Concertstück and restores Schumann?s musical text, free of posthumous interventions. ?My ultimate wish,? says the editor, ?is to give performers both access to, and confidence that they are playing from, an edition which is a true representation of the piece in its original form, no matter how much more difficult this might be. I found that incorporating the changes enabled the piece to take on a completely different character ? one that is lighter and happier, even ?cheerful?, as Schumann himself described the work.'

Par OKPEBHOLO SHAWN E.. Although Zoom! by Shawn Okpebholo was commissioned by the US Air Force Band, its title refers less to the speed of supersonic fighter jets than to the brand of telecommunications software that allowed digital reunions between isolated loved ones during the 2020 pandemic, and to the race for a life-saving vaccine. The seven-minute piece for strings and percussion evokes the glimmers of hope and joy that manage to survive in times of darkness. Zoom! received a streaming premiere, performed in December 2021 by the strings and percussion of the US Air Force Band under the baton of Col. Don Schofield. This score is published as part of the Peters Contemporary Library, with parts available on hire. / Date parution : 2022-09-07/ Répertoire / Ensemble de Chambre

Par GANDER BERNHARD. fourchanniballads by Bernhard Gander is an 11-minute work for orchestra scored for: 2Ob, EHn, 2BCl, CbCl, 2Bsn, Cbsn – 3Hn, 3Tpt, Tbn, BTbn, CbTbn, Tba – 3Perc – Str(12.12.12.8.6). It is influenced by riff-accentuated heavy metal and focuses on the themes of the downfall of the individual through the supremacy of masses, power, politics and greed. Commissioned by Westdeutscher Rundfunk (West German Broadcasting), the work was premiered on 4 May 2015 by the WDR Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jonathan Stockhammer at the Cologne Philharmony. The full score (EP 14026) is available for sale as part of the Peters Contemporary Library. The performance material can be hired. / Date parution : 2022-09-07/ Répertoire / Orchestre

Par BORBOUDAKIS MINAS. Constellation by Minas Borboudakis is a 14-minute work for orchestra (4 Horns in F, Timpani, 3 Percussion, Strings – Sampler). 'The first version of Constellation for octet was written in 2002 when Gidon Kremer asked me to write a new piece for the sextet of the Kremerata Baltica during a series of performances of my works in his festival in Lockenhaus', says the composer. In the version for orchestra, glissandi spread out from a single note phrase by phrase. The four horns, placed stereophonically in pairs to the right and left of the conductor, create explosions of sound through repetitive lines and motivic escapades. The premiere took place on 7 January 2011 at the Tonhalle Zurich by the Tonhalle-Orchester Zurich under the baton of Constantinos Carydis. The score (EP 12575) is available for sale as part of the Peters Contemporary Library. The performance material can be hired. / Date parution : 2022-09-07/ Répertoire / Orchestre

for Ensemble. Par BERNHARD GANDER. take nine by Bernhard Gander is a 12-minute work for a 12-part ensemble scored for: BCl(Cl), CbCl, Cbsn(Bsn) – Hn, Tpt, Tba – Perc – Pf – Vln, Vla, Vlc, DB. The work is based on rhythms in 9/16 and 9/8 time, but also 8/16, 8/8, 10/16 and 10/8 beats, which may seem complex at first, but sounds transparent to the audience. The main musical inspirations of Bernhard Gander are rock and heavy metal along with the jazz classics Take Five and Blue Rondo a la Turk by Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond. take nine was commissioned by the Ensemble Intercontemporain and premiered on 23 March 2012 at the Centre Pompidou, Paris conducted by Pablo Heras-Casado. The full score (EP 125569) is available for sale as part of the Peters Contemporary Library. The performance material can be hired. / Date parution : 2022-09-07/ Répertoire / Ensemble de Chambre

Par OKPEBHOLO SHAWN E.. Shawn Okpebholo?s Heritage, in the Edition Peters Concert Band Series, evokes moods, events and sounds (including West African drumming and indigenous melodies) from an ethnomusicological research visit the composer undertook to Nigeria. One of the primary musical themes of the work is an adaptation of a song that comes from the Esan people, a small ethnic group in the southern part of Nigeria and the tribe to which the composer has deep historical and family ties. The Esan language is poetic in nature and, at various moments in the work, the musicians chant the text from an Esan song: Ekine leleyea do obhimen la doeki nalo (My investment in you is paid off. Because of your hard work, your future is bright). Heritage is a revised version of a work previously entitled This is Africa, which was commissioned by Professor Marcellus Brown and the Boise State University Symphonic Winds for the 2011 National CBDNA Convention and is dedicated to the memory of Dr Harry Begian. / Date parution : 2022-05-31/ Répertoire / Concert Band

Présente sa nouvelle édition de joueur facile des quatuors de Haydn, Simon Rowland-Jones écrit: ' on peut rien de tel qu'une version finale, parfaite - Haydn laissé trop de questions ouvertes '. La nouvelle édition de Peters est fondée sur cette évaluation honnête. Par notre sensibilisation des questions qui restent ' ouvert ', cette édition libère l'inspiration d'interprétation des interprètes comme jamais auparavant. En conséquence, la nouvelle édition est susceptible de devenir indispensable pour tous qui exécutent ou étudier ces SCE masterpie. Chaque volume comprend: - partition complète - inclus avec les parties pour la première fois - une valeur inestimable pour la préparation de la performance - Pages de pliage - tel que requis par les parties distinctes, éliminant tous les virages-page au sein de mouvements - lignes directrices pour les artistes interprètes ou exécutants - ainsi que donner le contexte historique pour les quatuors, les préfaces à chaque volume contient un trésor d'informations sur tous les aspects de la performance - commentaire critique - dans le commentaire critique approfondie de chacun... / Quatuor A Cordes

Présente sa nouvelle édition de joueur facile des quatuors de Haydn, Simon Rowland-Jones écrit: ' on peut rien de tel qu'une version finale, parfaite - Haydn laissé trop de questions ouvertes '. La nouvelle édition de Peters est fondée sur cette évaluation honnête. Par notre sensibilisation des questions qui restent ' ouvert ', cette édition libère l'inspiration d'interprétation des interprètes comme jamais auparavant. En conséquence, la nouvelle édition est susceptible de devenir indispensable pour tous qui exécutent ou étudier ces SCE masterpie. Chaque volume comprend: - partition complète - inclus avec les parties pour la première fois - une valeur inestimable pour la préparation de la performance - Pages de pliage - tel que requis par les parties distinctes, éliminant tous les virages-page au sein de mouvements - lignes directrices pour les artistes interprètes ou exécutants - ainsi que donner le contexte historique pour les quatuors, les préfaces à chaque volume contient un trésor d'informations sur tous les aspects de la performance - commentaire critique - dans le commentaire critique approfondie de chacun... / Quatuor A Cordes

Introducing his new player-friendly edition of the Haydn Quartets Simon Rowland-Jones writes: 'There can be no such thing as a final perfect version; Haydn left too many questions open.' The new Peters Edition is founded upon this honest assessment. By heightening our awareness of the questions that remain 'open' this edition liberates the interpretative inspiration of performers as never before. As a result the new edition is likely to become indispensable for all who perform or study these masterpieces. Each volume includes: Full Score – included with the parts for the first time – invaluable for performance preparationFold-out Pages – as required in the separate parts eliminating all page-turns within movements Guidance for Performers – as well as giving historical background to the quartets the prefaces to each volume contain a treasure trove of information about all aspects of performance practice Critical Commentary – in the extensive Critical Commentary to each volume the most authoritative early sources for Haydn's quartets are carefully evaluated and full details of their variant readings given for comparison. Naturally the composer's autograph where extant assumes pre-eminence but alternative primary sources are also considered and secondary sources drawn upon where appropriate.

Par WOLFF CHRISTIAN. Composed, as the title suggests, for the 80th birthday of Alvin Lucier on May 14, 2011, At 80, Plus for Alvin Lucier by Christian Wolff is largely open in form and can be performed by any players, with variable duration. The performing score, published here as a facsimile of the autograph manuscript, consists of 14 short phrases to be performed in any sequence, followed by a 15th concluding phrase. In addition, all but one of the phrases may be performed in any clef or any transposition. / Date parution : 2022-09-07/ Répertoire / Ensemble de Chambre

Par TYSHAWN SOREY. Commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association for a world premiere by the LA Phil New Music Group in January 2019, Tyshawn Sorey's gently tolling chamber work For Fred Lerdahl is dedicated to the elder composer on the occasion of Lerdahl's retirement. Sorey credits Lerdahl as one of two teachers who helped him to find his own voice as a composer. A single, 13-minute movement, it features a highly lyrical, muted viola solo over gentle, softly rhythmic dissonances from the two vibraphones and piano. This edition is a performing score, one of four required for performance. / Date parution : 2022-09-07/ Répertoire / Violon, Piano et Vibraphone

Par ESENVALDS ERIKS. O Salutaris Hostia is one of Eriks E?envalds? most popular pieces. Originally written for female voices, the composer later created a version for full choir on which this arrangement is based. It has a gentle meditation with the two soloists drifting across the soft band accompaniment, alternately echoing and imitating each other or joining together in thirds. The effect is quietly ecstatic, a brief moment of adoration and wonderment. This arrangement can be played with either two cornets or two euphoniums as soloists as the accompaniment works just as effectively with either. Brings contemporary choral repertoire by a leading international composer to the band world. Arrangement of Eriks E?envalds' highly successful choral piece 'O Salutaris Hostia'. Arranged by brass band specialist Phillip Littlemore. Part of EP Brass Band SeriesMeditative, beautiful piece, highly attractive for audiences, and proven success as a choral work. Suitable for intermediate band at 2nd Section and above. / Date parution : 2022-05-17/ Répertoire / Brass Band

Par ESENVALDS ERIKS. Stars is one of the most popular of all contemporary choral works by Latvian composer Eriks E?envalds. The music begins with water-tuned glasses playing a sequence of chord clusters, which are heard throughout the whole piece. It creates an evocative effect, which is both imaginative and inventive prodcing an ethereal shimmering beauty. Phillip Littlemore's expert arrangement for brass band will bring a moment of enthralling stillness to any concert programme. Brings contemporary choral repertoire by a leading international composer to the band world. Arrangement of Eriks E?envalds' highly successful choral piece 'Stars'. Arranged by brass and brass band specialist Phillip Littlemore. Part of EP Brass Band Series. Meditative, beautiful piece, highly attractive for audiences, and proven success as a choral work. Suitable for band at all levels. / Date parution : 2022-05-17/ Répertoire / Brass Band

Par ESENVALDS ERIKS. Only in Sleep is a nostalgic vision of childhood re-experienced through dreams. Eriks E?envalds has created a work of subtlety, yet powerful and expressive. The music has an incandescent freshness and the Flugel Horn soloist heard at the opening returns at the close, lost in reverie, whilst florid arabesques float over one last pair of chordal oscillations, winding down to nothing. This brilliant arrangement for brass band has become every bit as popular as the original choral setting. Brings contemporary choral repertoire by a leading international composer to the band worldArrangement of Eriks E?envalds' highly successful choral piece 'Only in Sleep'. Arranged by brass and brass band specialist Phillip Littlemore. Part of EP Brass Band Series. Meditative, beautiful piece, highly attractive for audiences, and proven success as a choral work. Suitable for intermediate band at 2nd Section and above. / Date parution : 2022-05-17/ Répertoire / Brass Band