Format : Sheet music + Audio access
Piano Play-Along-Performed by Kevin Class piano. Accompaniment: Stuttgart Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Emil Kahn Long popular with audiences and performers alike the Schumann concerto is felt by many to be one of the greatest concerted piano works. In the words of noted authority Maurice Hinson Schumann succeeded in a magnificent manner by composing what is probably the most beautiful of Romantic concertos....This flawless masterpiece is one of the most outstanding and romantically inspired concertos in the repertoire. Integrating the piano and orchestra in an unprecedented manner it embodies the melodic grace and fine tonal texture so characteristic of one of the great composers of alltime. This pack includes a 96-page printed music book newly engraved and printed on beautiful acid-free ivory paper; and a compact disc containing a complete version with soloist followed by a second version in full stereo of the orchestral accompaniment minus the soloist; plus a second compact disc containing the full-speed complete version followed by a special -20% slow-tempo version of the accompaniments for practice purposes.
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)Schumann'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.