BERCEUSE POUR LE PIANO OP.57.

Sinopsis

BERCEUSE POUR LE PIANO OP.57.
COMPOSER / AUTHOR: CHOPIN, FRÉDÉRIC

TITLE: BERCEUSE FOR PIANO OP. 57
INSTRUMENTATION OF THE WORK: PIANO
DETAILED INSTRUMENTATION: PIANO
VOLUME / SERIES: BÄRENREITER URTEXT
ARRANGER: RITTNER, HARDY
EDITOR: SCHILLING-WANG, BRITTA
PRODUCT FORMAT: PERFORMANCE SCORE, URTEXT EDITION
INSTRUMENTATION: PIANO
COMMENTS ON THE EDITION: FINGERING AND NOTES ON PERFORMANCE PRACTICE BY HARDY RITTNER
LANGUAGE(S) OF TEXT: GERMAN, ENGLISH
LEVEL OF DIFFICULTY (D): 5
PUBLISHER: BÄRENREITER
BINDING: STAPLED
PRINT RUN: 1ST PRINTING 2023
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION TO THE PRINT RUN:CORRECTED

DESCRIPTION:
-CHOPIN`S “BERCEUSE” IS ONE OF HIS MOST FREQUENTLY PERFORMED WORKS AND WAS REGARDED BY SUBSEQUENT COMPOSERS AS THE PROTOTYPE OF THE INSTRUMENTAL LULLABY. THIS PIECE THAT CHOPIN INITIALLY NAMED “VARIANTES” WAS COMPOSED AROUND THE TIME OF HIS GREAT SONATA IN B MINOR OP. 58 AND WAS RENAMED “BERCEUSE” ONLY WHEN IT WENT TO PRINT. IN IT, THE COMPOSER SYSTEMATICALLY SUBJECTS A FOUR-MEASURE MOTIF TO A SERIES OF VARIANTS WHICH ARE LINKED IN A CONTINUOUS FLOW OVER AN OSTINATO FIGURE.

-THIS URTEXT EDITION REFLECTS THE LATEST STATE OF CHOPIN RESEARCH, OFFERING A DEFINITIVE MUSICAL TEXT BASED ON A CAREFUL EVALUATION OF THE SOURCES. READINGS AND EDITORIAL DECISIONS ARE DOCUMENTED IN THE CRITICAL COMMENTARY (ENG) AND A DETAILED FOREWORD (GER/ENG) PROVIDES INFORMATION ON THE WORK. HARDY RITTNER, A CHOPIN SPECIALIST AS WELL AS PROFESSOR OF PIANO AT THE HOCHSCHULE FÜR MUSIK FREIBURG, HAS SUPPLEMENTED THE COMPOSER`S FINGERING FROM A HISTORICALLY INFORMED PERSPECTIVE. HIS CHAPTER ON PERFORMANCE PRACTICE CONTAINS VALUABLE NOTES, PARTICULARLY ON CHOPIN`S PEDAL INDICATIONS WHICH CLEARLY DIVERGE IN THE SOURCES, ON RUBATO, THE EXECUTION OF ORNAMENTS AS WELL AS ON TONAL NUANCE, VOICE-LEADING AND CANTABILITÀ.

CONTENTS:
· COMPOSER / AUTHOR: SCHILLING-WANG, BRITTA
VORWORT
· COMPOSER / AUTHOR: RITTNER, HARDY
HINWEISE ZUR AUFFÜHRUNGSPRAXIS
· COMPOSER / AUTHOR: SCHILLING-WANG, BRITTA
PREFACE
· COMPOSER / AUTHOR: RITTNER, HARDY
NOTES ON PERFORMANCE PRACTICE
· BERCEUSE OP. 57
· CRITICAL COMMENTARY