Best edition of Rach 2

[dave santino]

I'm looking for a good edition of Rach 2 with solo piano part and orchestral reduction piano part, not a four-hand arrangement. Anyone got any suggestions as to which the best edition is? Thanx.

[nicco]

Boosey and Hawkes Edition, no doubt. I bought all 4 rach piano concerts from here, they are superb.

www.boosey.com

[dave santino]

Cheers mate.

[kriskicksass]

There's no reason to pay for Boosey in Rachmaninoff. The Schirmer edition is perfectly fine. That's the edition I learned from, and my teacher before me.

[nicco]

There's no reason to pay for Boosey in Rachmaninoff. The Schirmer edition is perfectly fine. That's the edition I learned from, and my teacher before me.

Of course, just my opinion. I can just say i used the boosey and its very good.

[faulty_damper]

Schirmer is the publisher in the United States of Boosey and Hawkes.
Look at the copyright information.

I would purchase Schirmer except for the poor quality of the printing on the pages, but also it is a reprint of the Boosey and Hawkes so the Boosey would not be that much clearer.

[quantum]

See here for another discussion:

https://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php/topic,1472.0.html

[ralessi]

There's no reason to pay for Boosey in Rachmaninoff. The Schirmer edition is perfectly fine. That's the edition I learned from, and my teacher before me.

Very much agreed...this piece of music was written so recent that all the editions are pretty much the exact same!! Same goes for most other pieces written after 1900 too.  The only difference between the Shirmer and B&H is that the B&H is more spaced out.  Shirmer score is a bit more crunched..but no real deal..

Cheers!