2 volumes in a slipcase with marked and unmarked string part with orchestra parts-On the occasion of the 70th birthday of Gidon Kremer violinist extraordinaire G. Henle Publishers is issuing a special edition of Beethoven s Violin Concerto in collaboration with the Kronberg Academy. It comprises two editions gathered together in an attractive slipcase: the piano score and violin part without annotations (also available as HN 326) and the Kremer part . The latter includes fingerings and bowings by Gidon Kremer. The musical text isfollowed by an essay by Kremer about recordings of the Beethoven Concerto bearing the attractive title: Searching for Ludwig . And this is not all: the first-movement cadenza by the composer Victor Kissine which Kremer hasalready played numerous times is published here for the very first time. The solo violin is here accompanied by wind and percussion. The edition also includes the corresponding performance materials for the cadenza including thescore and a piano reduction for study purposes. This extraordinary Urtext edition is rounded off with a foreword by Friedemann Eichhorn. Congratulations Maestro Kremer!
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Though some themes of the D major Violin Concerto appear fragmentarily among Beethoven's earlier drafts, the score received its final shape - according to the autograph manuscript - in 1806 only. The first performance took place on December 23 of the same year in Vienna, the violon solo was played by Franz Clement. The concerto met with a rather cold reception: this critic of the Wiener Theaterzeitung admitted 'some beauty' in it but for the rest he found that '...the coherence often seems totally broken and the endless repetitions of some commonplace sections can easily become tedious.' The performance may have not been totally satisfying, it is certainly surprising that the setof parts published in 1808 is dedicated to Stephan von Breuning instead of Clement. It is not impossible that Beethoven lost faith in the value and future of his work, too, - his later attempt to change it into a piano concerto can be interpreted in this way.