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Another edition of Shostakovich's preludes and fugues. Expensive as all hell, and it's only half of them!
Another edition of Shostakovich's preludes and fugues. Expensive as all hell, and it's only half of them!Also got Debussy's preludes. I'm not a huge Debussy fan, but I'm going to read through a few of them and see what I think. Also, this is an excellent book physically, wonderful paper, clear print, nice spacing. Book doesn't stay open quite as easily as some editions, but I'm not having too much trouble with this guy.
Very interested to hear your opinion on the Shostakovich score. I have been studying the opus in some depth for several months now and have been extremely disappointed with my Edition Peters overall.
Well:I'm glad this instrument (rented btw, can't afford to buy it yet, maybe in a year orso) doesn't have a horrible sound as the ones I've listened to on youtube. The string sounds are good, but the G string is rough and needs to be treated with strength and precision. Or so I think.So far I can play twinkle twinkle little star. You gotta start somewhere! Just like I started with Marry had a little lamb on the piano 10 months ago.
So now you can learn the violin as well, good for you! Will you be taking lessons?
Thank you outin. My third lesson is in a few days.It's expensive, piano and violin lessons, I can hardly afford it, and my brother tells me I should spend it on a driver's license instead of on music (that includes the piano), but I love music too much for that.My piano teacher plays two other instruments as well, but I think he would react weird if I told him I'm taking violin lessons too. So I'm not gonna tell him.Besides, it's not different from learning the piano and guitar, which a lot of people do I think. Both are instruments (although I consider the piano on a league of its own).
Good luck! Hope you can find enough time for both...They are both difficult instruments in their own way...Who needs a driving licence anyway??
I've been told you can't drive without it, will confirm.
What all are you disappointed in? Inaccuracies? Print quality? Something else? I've only had the Shostakovich score for a little while, but here. The print is clear. The paper feels firm, but it seems like it's kind of laminated (so I'm not sure how well pencil markings will show). The binding feels firm, although I still need a book to hold it open when I play. As for note accuracy, I have not found any issues thus-far with notes, but I've only been using the 24th prelude and fugue, and I'm not familiar enough with the fugue yet to tell if there are errors.
Concerns over the integrity of the score, but I'm not sure if any edition is able to address them. If you listen to the recordings Shostakovich himself made of the Preludes and Fugues, there are a plethora of discrepancies with the printed score, with the dynamic and tempo markings frequently being very different to those indicated in the score. Some more research revealed a breakdown in communication between Shostakovich and his publishers so that these never got addressed in his life time, and editors have since taken further liberties.
Rather battered but very usable, nice to have Debussy's fingering suggestions too. Obviously been through several hands over the years.
As requested! There's an inscription inside the cover dating it to 1946. I also have the Waltzes edition of similar vintage. There's notes at the top on a few pages giving dates of exams, performances, teacher's names and lesson times. It appears to have been in regular use for most of its existence.
Nice! think it'd drive me mad waiting that long for something, be worth it though!
Sight reading's something I need to work on, it's dire. The Mikrokosmos seems a nice way of doing it.
Said it would be about 1-2 weeks before it'd leave their warehouse, and I'm getting impatient...
Bartok Mikrokosmos book 1 - Boosey & Hawkes.
LOL. I've waited months for some things!
Do you (or anyone) know the difference between the pink and the blue editions?
Bartok Mikrokosmos book 1 - Boosey & Hawkes. Got it to help improving my sightreading. It's nice to start at the very beginning, but I bought it about a half hour ago and am already halfway through it, so maybe I should have started at book 2...Either way, glad I got it.
Languages. Blue is in English, Portuguese, Spanish, and Japanese. Pink is English, French, German, and Hungarian. You're in a dilemma--Blue is the better color, but pink is in the language of the composer.
Depends I guess, if you start at the beginning you identify all flaws as they arise. "Whats her name" (can't bloody remember right now, she wrote a book on sight reading and advises use of mikrokosmos) suggests working from vol 1 through to vol 4.I love it, if ever I have a student who lacks confidence in their reading beginning this fixes that so quickly. They suddenly realise that they can read music fluently and start to see a definite path to improvement on more complex examples.
Can you tell me something about the size of the print in Mikrokosmos?
see for yourself.. my copy comes from here..www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php?topic=34501.0
Picture that printed in a normal height/width piano book. I'd say it's quite readable, as far as piano music goes. Definitely easier to read than most Boosey & Hawkes I have...
Ah. I have not compared the score against recordings of Shostakovich playing. I own both the Sikorski and DSCH versions of the preludes and fugues (only the latter half in Sikorski), and so far I have noticed no discrepancies between the two. Of course, that doesn't mean that there isn't a discrepancy against the actual intentions of Shostakovich, just that those two scores agree. DSCH is also the edition put out by the official Shostakovich people, or whatever you want to call them, so I would assume (though I have no evidence for this) that it is as accurate as any edition available. I'd recommend against purchasing the DSCH unless you have the means to remove the original binding and spiral bind it, as the pages started falling out of my copy (like, literally detaching from the spine as if they were regular pieces of paper stuffed into a book) within the first couple hours of use.
Thanks for taking the time to reply, it is much appreciated. I guess the true intentions of Shostakovich for his op. 87 are lost to posterity, we can only wonder.
There's a DVD (Classic Archive) of Tatjana Nikolayeva playing this set and in the short documentary there's something about the creation process. It seems he wrote them in a very short time and it took time before they were published at all. At some point he actually gave his only manuscript copy to Nikolayeva for her to play from. I think she mentioned that there were very few corrections. Maybe these manuscripts still exist in some archives in Russia? I would also expect that she plays them as Shostakovich meant because of their working relationship. Might be worth for you to watch the set if you haven't seen them already.EDIT:And of course everything is in YT nowdays, whether copyrighted or not...Documentary:I found at least one of the performances too...
During the preparation of the premiere of the cycle, tensions began to arise between Shostakovich and Nikolayeva when she refused to play the pieces according to Shostakovich‘s suggestions. During rehearsals, Shostakovich did not conceal his dissatisfaction with Nikolayeva's performance, and their conversations usually proceeded as follows:SHOSTAKOVICH: Tatyana Petrovna, you are playing my pieces in a wrong way!NIKOLAYEVA: Come on, Dmitri Dmitrievich, you don‘t understand a thing in piano playing
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