Orchestral Masterpieces under the Microscope
- Author: Del Mar, Jonathan
Decision making is at the heart of conducting,and in almost every major piece we work on there are a wealth of problems and conundrums to solve. Short of telephoning the composer ourselves,an...
Orchestral Masterpieces under the Microscope
- Author: Del Mar, Jonathan
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Decision making is at the heart of conducting,and in almost every major piece we work on there are a wealth of problems and conundrums to solve. Short of telephoning the composer ourselves,an...
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WINNER: International Association of Music Libraries, UK & Ireland (IAML UK & Irl) C.B. Oldman Award For an outstanding work of music bibliography, music reference or music librarianship 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repertoire are beset by textual problems: simple misprints, mistakes in the score or player's part, or hopelessly outdated scores at odds with current scholarship.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.
Contents
- 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
- Dvořák
- 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
- Martinů
- 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
Awards and reviews
Simon Rattle
Decision making is at the heart of conducting,and in almost every major piece we work on there are a wealth of problems and conundrums to solve. Short of telephoning the composer ourselves,an option rarely available,we all need assistance. What did the composer REALLY write, and what exactly does it mean? Jonathan Del Mar has characteristically cut to the chase by compiling this treasure trove of answers to so many of those thorny questions. This book is beyond valuable: it will doubtless be on every conductor's bookshelf and countless scholars as well. Bravo
