Scriabin Piano Concerto

[bachrach]

Does anyone have an idea on which edition is more "urtext"? I have access to the Peters edition and the Belaieff edition. My teacher also has a Russian edition which I've never seen before. It says it is published by: STATE PUBLISHERS "MUSIC" MOSCOW 1979. Any comments would be helpful. Thanks.

[j_menz]

Is there a difference between them that gives rise to your question?

[andreslr6]

Is there a difference between them that gives rise to your question?

Supposedly there shouldn't because practically every Scriabin edition you see is based on Belaieff's print, but I've found lots of errors and misprints on Dover's "Belaieff reprints", although I'm sure Peter's is of a much better quality than Dover I would still go with the Belaieff, I have the concerto with Belaieff and everything looks and sounds good; also, Belaieff was the first publisher of Scriabin's music too.

Also, another one I've tried for Scriabin is Henle's Urtext, which I prefer over Belaieff just because of the extra text, comments, annotations by editors and corrections by the composer, etc. but Henle only has Scriabin's sonatas and some preludes I think.

[bachrach]

Thanks for the responses. It's too bad Henle doesn't publish the concerto otherwise I would go with that. I won't be able to get my hands on the Belaieff edition until June. I've heard that there are some altered phrases in the Peters edition when compared to the Belaieff. On the other hand, the Peters has more expression markings. It seems like the Belaieff has been stripped of many of them. This is only what I have read on another forum.