Hi everybody.
I am searching for "strange" editions of works by all composers.
5 years ago an old teacher of mine advised me not to stick only to urtext editions, and gave me an old Cassela edition of the Beethoven's sonatas. She said that having something like that is like having Cassela himself teaching you, suggesting his point of view (eg. dynamics- slight tempo changes, and even a note saying "Liszt used to play this part sf!".
Since then I have been collecting non-urtext eitions and really it helped me a lot. Editions like Cortot's with tons of useful information, or Cassela's, or Busoni's.
Hence I am happy to have 7 different Waldsteins, 6 Appasionatas, 12 WTCs, 8 Mozart Sonatas etc. A lot of times these have helped me to overcome technical difficulties (fingerings), and many times there are even different notes-markings-grace notes in them (there are 4 different versions of some bars in the G minor fugue in WTC2!)
My favorite is a russian edition of Liszt's Sonata with tones of notes that still I haven't been able to translate, and a Gaspard de la nuit edition that saved me hours of practicing with fingerings and 2-hand divisions of the most difficult Scarbo passages.
What do you think about this?
Do you have editions like these? Please post them!
Topic: "Different" editions collection