Matériel : Partition
Par BARTOK BELA. Bartók s Second String Quartet was composed with several long interruptions between 1915 and 1918, after he had spent several years almost solely devoted to collecting folk music. The melody and rhythms of the riotous middle movement Allegro, molto capriccioso provide impressive testimony of how his research trips had taken him as far as North Africa. The first edition of this quartet, published in Vienna in 1920, contains a conspicuous number of errors that were only partially corrected in a later revision undertaken by Bartók. As late as the 1940s he noted changes in his personal copy of the score that have never previously appeared in print. These late changes by Bartók are taken into account in this definitive edition of the string quartets supervised by Bartók scholar László Somfai, with problematic passages in the sources carefully documented. It is the first-ever Urtext edition of this work. Sensible page turns and cue notes in the parts mean that this edition is ideal for exploring Bartók s sound world in performance. / Date parution : 2023-05-06/ Répertoire / Quatuor à Cordes
SKU: BT.EMBZ40034
English-German-Hungari an.
SKU: HL.48024698
ISBN 9783702412074. UPC: 803452059837.
This revised edition was prepared after comparison of all manuscript sources that could be found with the last printed edition. The sources included the first sketch, two full score manuscripts (one partly by a copyist, a photocopy of the former, with autograph changes and last page, used for engraving the first edition) and a copyist's copy of the parts, with additions in the composer's hand. The previous edition contained very few errors. The corrections concern mostly a few dynamics, beaming, precision in dynamic or tempo changes, etc. (P. Bartok).