SKU: M7.DOHR-95240
ISBN 9790202002407.
SKU: BO.BC0006
Despite a strong vocation for the cello, which he studied and began to play with a distinctive character, Pau Casals, like most ambitious, creative musicians, wrote at the piano and for the piano, as it is the ultimate teaching instrument, summarising the full vision of the creative process. Any creative musician habitually worked at the piano, whether for this instrument alone or for piano accompanied by other solo instruments. To date, it has not been possible to document whether Casals had systematic training on this instrument, although at that time it was more common than it is today because, considering its qualities of timbre and combination, it was particularly attractive for creating test pieces and different kinds of compositions.The piano works contained in this second volume include part of the salon repertoire, a continuation of the first volume, and four sardanas for piano of diverse origin: some are reductions of more complex forms and others sketches for instrumental groups. In the first group, some works intended for children are published, a demonstration of the tenderness the ‘cellist felt for the children of his closest friends. In the second case, the sardanas are works from his first exile in Prada and show the nostalgia of the composer, away from his country against his will.In general, the works are not especially complex; their purpose and nature are diverse. They come in the context of salon music, with the appearance of creative entertainments characterised by a basically tonal, transparent language with a widespread tendency to modulate to nearby keys more as a momentary expressive resource than as a structural evolutionary procedure. They show a lack of systematic work on the instrument as well as the commonplaces of piano composition of their time. In some of these works, the piano thread breaks, the works do not have the thrust of finished products; the occasional appearance of chords that are difficult or impossible to finger leads us to think of intentions closer to test pieces than to products intended for normal performance. But not all these piano works are circumstantial. There is also a prelude and a minuet of a certain piano writing complexity.
SKU: BT.EMBZ14763
English-German-Hungarian.
Supplement Volume 14 of the New Liszt Edition contains mostly unpublished early versions of piano works from the last two decades of the composer s life. The bulk of the volume comprises pieces from Volume 3 of Années de pelerinage and the Weihnachtsbaum cycle. Of the latter, two complete early versions are extant. One of these consists of pieces which are shorter and more condensed than the final version. For performer and listener alike, it is an exciting experience to become familiar with this set of pieces in its early form.Among the individual pieces in this volume, the autograph version of the beautifully evocative Schlummerlied im Grabe is also published here forthe first time. Finally, Liszt s characteristically economical attitude to composing can be studied in the original form of what can be considered as the common starting point for La lugubre gondola I and II. The latest volume of the New Liszt Edition also contains a detailed preface in German, English, and Hungarian, including new results of research, five manuscript facsimiles, and critical notes. Along with the cloth-bound Complete Edition, a paperback version for practical use has also been published. This edition s contents are identical to those of the hardcover edition, except for the omission of the critical notes. Dieser neue praktischen Zielen gerecht werdende Band basiert auf der neuen Liszt Ausgabe, erscheint allerdings ohne den Kritischen Bericht. Der neueste Band der Neuen Liszt-Gesamtausgabe umfasst ein detailliertes, neue Forschungsergebnisse enthaltendes Vorwort in deutscher, englischer und ungarischer Sprache.
Der vorliegende Band enthält die größtenteils unveröffentlichten Fru hfassungen von in den letzten zwei Jahrzehnten des Lebens des Komponisten entstandenen Klavierwerken. Das Ru ckgrat des Bandes bilden die Stu cke des III. Bandes der Pilgerjahre und aus Weihnachtsbaum. Von Letzterem sind zwei vollständige Fru hfassungen erhalten geblieben. Eine von ihnen besteht aus ku rzeren, kompakteren Stu cken als die endgu ltige Form. Fu r die Vortragenden und die ZuhörerInnen ist es ebenfalls ein spannendes Erlebnis, die Reihe in dieser fru heren Form kennenzulernen.
