Spiegel Im Spiegel

SKU: BR.OB-5653-30

ISBN 9790004348314. 10 x 12.5 inches.

Richard Strauss was aware (especially following the success of his Don Juan) of his reputation and above all of his value as a composer, which led him to rewrite several of his successful works by hand and leave them to his descendants as valuable Christmas gifts. In the case of the Eulenspiegel score, however, it was a genuine revision, which he marked with the instruction: [...] with the second fair copy October 1944 | once again revised and | to be regarded as a new print (especially in the complete edition of my works). | Dr. Richard Strauss. Hundreds of more precisely defined indications for articulation, dynamics and tempo, but especially an altered scoring at the end of the work (waiver of additional horns and trumpets) present the Till Eulenspiegel in this Urtext edition for the first time in the version bequeathed by Strauss as the final version. The dedicatee of the work changed as well. Whereas the first edition was dedicated to the dear friend Dr. Arthur Seidl, Strauss dedicated his revision to the good Till on his 50th birthday.

SKU: BR.OB-5653-23

ISBN 9790004348291. 10 x 12.5 inches.

Richard Strauss was aware (especially following the success of his Don Juan) of his reputation and above all of his value as a composer, which led him to rewrite several of his successful works by hand and leave them to his descendants as valuable Christmas gifts. In the case of the Eulenspiegel score, however, it was a genuine revision, which he marked with the instruction: [...] with the second fair copy October 1944 | once again revised and | to be regarded as a new print (especially in the complete edition of my works). | Dr. Richard Strauss. Hundreds of more precisely defined indications for articulation, dynamics and tempo, but especially an altered scoring at the end of the work (waiver of additional horns and trumpets) present the Till Eulenspiegel in this Urtext edition for the first time in the version bequeathed by Strauss as the final version. The dedicatee of the work changed as well. Whereas the first edition was dedicated to the dear friend Dr. Arthur Seidl, Strauss dedicated his revision to the good Till on his 50th birthday.

SKU: BR.OB-5653-19

ISBN 9790004348284. 10 x 12.5 inches.

Richard Strauss was aware (especially following the success of his Don Juan) of his reputation and above all of his value as a composer, which led him to rewrite several of his successful works by hand and leave them to his descendants as valuable Christmas gifts. In the case of the Eulenspiegel score, however, it was a genuine revision, which he marked with the instruction: [...] with the second fair copy October 1944 | once again revised and | to be regarded as a new print (especially in the complete edition of my works). | Dr. Richard Strauss. Hundreds of more precisely defined indications for articulation, dynamics and tempo, but especially an altered scoring at the end of the work (waiver of additional horns and trumpets) present the Till Eulenspiegel in this Urtext edition for the first time in the version bequeathed by Strauss as the final version. The dedicatee of the work changed as well. Whereas the first edition was dedicated to the dear friend Dr. Arthur Seidl, Strauss dedicated his revision to the good Till on his 50th birthday.

SKU: BR.EB-9071

World premiere: Darmstadt, April 7, 1990

ISBN 9790004179468. 11 x 15 inches.

Ein ganz anderer (neuer?) Baur keine Bindung an einen cantus firmus, keine barocke Form stattdessen vier suitenartig, in lockerer Form aneinander gereihte Satze. Schon die Uberschriften deuten auf Neues; der Gesamt-Titel: Kaleidoskop die einzelnen Teile: Sisyphus, Spiegelung, Artisten, Marionetten; spielerisch frei entworfene Stucke, heiter, besinnlich, humorvoll. 1. Satz: Zwei thematische Bewegungen charakterisieren den Ablauf des Sisyphus eine durch Pausen unterbrochene einstimmige Rollfigur wechselt standig mit einem stereotypen Funfton-Ostinato einem Motiv, das in vielfacher Veranderung wiederkehrt und schliesslich girlandenformig in die Tiefe fallt, symbolisch fur das vergebliche Bemuhen der altgriechischen Sagengestalt. Das zweite Stuck, Spiegelungen, wird ein- und ausgeleitet durch einen melancholischen Gedanken; dieser mundet in einer Gruppe von statischen, streng imitierten, ineinander geschobenen Spiegelklangen. Eine bewegte Figur fuhrt zu einer 5/8-Periode, bei der die Oberstimme um funf Tone kreist; am Ende steht wieder die Spiegelklang-Episode, auf einem Einzelton verloschend: das Ganze ein ruhiges, fast aleatorisch wirkendes Intermezzo. 3. Satz: Eine virtuose Studie mit kreisenden Rastelli-Tongruppen, dodekaphonisch geordneten Quintolen, begleitet von rhythmisch gegenlaufigen Klangimpulsen, immer wieder unterbrochen von rezitativischen Pedal-Bass-Soli. Zum Ende, kraftvolle Zusammenballung aller thematischen Elemente eine artistische Toccata, gipfelnd in dissonanten Klangturmen. Das Finale: Marionetten, eine funfteilige Bruckenform ABCBA. Der Satz fugt sich aus drei thematischen Abschnitten zusammen; der erste: eine abwarts gerichtete Zwolfton-Melodie, in ein Klangfeld mundend, das sich zum vielschichtigen Akkord weitet; der zweite: ein verhulltes Menuett mit funftonigem Bass-Ostinato und marionettenhaft gezirkelten Bewegungen in Melodie und Begleitung; der dritte: ein in streng serieller Manier durchgefuhrter Abschnitt mit spiegel- und krebsformigen Entsprechungen. Formteil B und A schliessen sich als variierte Reprise an. Die Coda wird gebildet von dreifach geschichtetem Trillerfeld, der Zwolfton-Melodie des Anfangs und einer Kadenz mit drei Akkorden in tiefer Lage: ein stiller Ausklang des Kaleidoskops. (Jurg Baur) Bibliography : Richter , Reinhold: Zwischen Tradition und Avantgarde zwischen Zweifel und Hoffnung. Einige Notizen zur Chor- und Orgelmusik von Jurg Baur anlasslich des 85. Geburtstages im vergangenen November, in: Forum Kirchenmusik 54 (2003), Heft 6, S. 23-31.

World premiere: Darmstadt, April 7, 1990.

SKU: CA.1240505

ISBN 9790007027766. Language: German.

Score available separately - see item CA.1240500.