Format : Score
This study score is based on the score and complete performance material of Dvorák s famous Cello Concerto In B Minor (BA 9045) edited by Jonathan Del Mar and published in 2011. In addition the study score contains a Foreword by Dvorák scholar Jan Smaczny.Like every other major 19th-century Cello concerto Dvorák s concerto resulted from a collaboration between the composer and a virtuoso musician. Several passages in Dvorák s autograph were written by the cellist Hanus Wihan but Bärenreiter s edition now reveals that some details in the orchestral parts are also in his writing showing just how closely the twomusicians were working together.The editor Jonathan Del Mar has conscientiously examined every available source including two that have hitherto been either ignored or crucially undervalued. His research has led to a benchmark edition that reconstructs for the first time since its initial publication in 1896 Dvorák s definitive version of the solo part. It differs from previous editions in practically every bar and hundreds of corrections have also been made to the orchestral parts.Includes Dvorák s final and definitive version of the solo Cello part.Incorporates new discoveries regarding the collaboration between Dvorák and Wihan.With Feuermann s and Casals s alternative versions of a passage in the first movement.Detailed Foreword (Eng/Cz/Ger)
SKU: HL.1190004
ISBN 9781705192498. UPC: 196288131717.
From the composer: Evensong was composed at the request of my friend David Wick, principal hornist of the Virginia Symphony Orchestra. He asked that I compose a recital piece for him to play with the orchestra's music director, JoAnn Falletta, who is also a virtuoso guitarist. The only stipulation he made was that the work include fragments of one of his favorite melodies, “Lasst mich alleâ€, from Four Songs, Op. 82, by AntonÃn Dvorák. The melody is also quoted in the Adagio movement of DvorákÂ’s Cello Concerto in B Minor, Op. 104, B. 191. The music is absolute in nature and cast in the form of a single movement fantasy based loosely on DvorákÂ’s melody, which is stated at the outset and at the conclusion.