What does your edition say (Dante sonata)

[nicco]

A friend of mine discovered a strange error in the dante sonata. On page 27, in the part with the Andante tremolos, in the 8th measure after the andante start, the tremolos go downwards in octaves: A - G - F#. This is the same in 3 different editions i have. However, in the recordings of Leslie howard, Lazar berman, Enrico pace and some guy named Barillan, they all seem to play G# instead of G. The only one playing correctly that i have heard so far is Andsnes. Can anyone compare with other recordings or shed some light to this matter? I am using the cortot edition.

[pianowolfi]

A friend of mine discovered a strange error in the dante sonata. On page 27, in the part with the Andante tremolos, in the 8th measure after the andante start, the tremolos go downwards in octaves: A - G - F#. This is the same in 3 different editions i have. However, in the recordings of Leslie howard, Lazar berman, Enrico pace and some guy named Barillan, they all seem to play G# instead of G. The only one playing correctly that i have heard so far is Andsnes. Can anyone compare with other recordings or shed some light to this matter? I am using the cortot edition.

My Henle urtext says G and my recording by Stephen Hough too.

[pianistimo]

curious, as always, about musicological questions - i googled various things to find out what other said about this 'discrepancy.'  the only thing i have found so far is a short description of a lecture from david trippett (harvard uni) who said:

"the dante sonata was notated and revised by liszt over nineteen years (1839-1858) in at least four manuscripts, using three copyists, and four titles...the dante sonata is the static embodiment of thousands of hours of improvisation captured in 'logical' form..."

he mentions self-borrowing and interchangeability of texts - as normal. 

www.ams-net.org/Abstracts/2005-CD.pdf  (approx. pg 71)  friday morning

[thierry13]

my recording by Stephen Hough too.

How is it?

[nicco]

Thanks pianistimo

Despite all these manuscripts i am still to see an edition wich has a g# in it. Wolfis urtext has a G, and the one on piano.ru has a g. That makes 5 different editions, and still the majority seems to play the G#. Really strange. Does anyone have the editio budapest?

[pianowolfi]

How is it?

It is  great, i love it. Virtuoso and rich in content.

[donjuan]

A friend of mine discovered a strange error in the dante sonata. On page 27, in the part with the Andante tremolos, in the 8th measure after the andante start, the tremolos go downwards in octaves: A - G - F#. This is the same in 3 different editions i have. However, in the recordings of Leslie howard, Lazar berman, Enrico pace and some guy named Barillan, they all seem to play G# instead of G. The only one playing correctly that i have heard so far is Andsnes. Can anyone compare with other recordings or shed some light to this matter? I am using the cortot edition.

I'm at university right now, so I can't tell you what my Dover edition at home has.  However, in the edition available for download here at pianostreet, the G tremolo has #'s in brackets.

[phil13]

My Schirmer edition has no sharp or natural sign, so it is a G natural. My Edito Musica Budapest edition specifically has the natural sign, with the following footnote:

"*The g's are not altered to g-sharp in any of the editions (used for the editing of this edition)"

Phil

[prometheus]

Send an email to Howard and ask him about it. He may not be the greatest Liszt performer. He is a musiciologist as well.

[nicco]

That is quite interesting phil, thanks.

And thank you prometheus, ill do just that.