Description

This edition contains all of Janácek’s works for violin and piano:

the Sonata as well as the “Romance and Dumka”, composed while he was still a student.

Though probably written as early as 1914, Janácek’s Sonata for Violin and Piano was revised several times before finally appearing in a definitive version in 1922.

This new edition of the Sonata and the “Romance” is based on the “Complete Critical Edition of the Works of Leoš Janácek”(Vol. E/1) with a clearer notation to optimise readability. For the Dumka the editor has drawn on the sole autograph source, the violin part (still considered lost when the above mentioned Complete Edition volume was published), and the revised version contained therein.

Unlike the first edition, it also contains Janácek’s detailed dynamic markings.

Description

Although Sergei Rachmaninoff only left behind a relatively small oeuvre for string instrument and piano in comparison to his more substantial groups of works, these few works date from all phases of his compositional activity. Their patrons, dedicatees and important performers often came from his closest musical circle.

The chamber music for violin and piano includes the “Morceaux de salon” op. 6 (consisting of “Romance” and “Danse hongroise”), a “Romance” in A minor that was only published posthumously and Rachmaninoff’s arrangement of Modest Mussorgsky’s “Hopak”, the finale of his unfinished opera “The Sorochyntsi Fair”. These works were written as part of his friendship or indeed collaboration with violinists such as Julius Conus (1869–1942) and probably Fritz Kreisler (1875–1962).

Description

Claude Debussy had difficulties finishing his last major work, the Sonata for Violin and Piano. This can be seen in the many drafts which have been handed down and the fact that the cycle for which it was conceived was left unfinished. The work originated under the impact of Debussy’s progressing illness as well as the First World War.

The first edition, published during the final year of Debussy’s life, contains many rhythmic errors. The non-autograph metronome marks as well as the discrepancies between the separate violin part and the violin part in small print in the piano score are two problems that have affected the work’s later reception. Both are examined here in a fresh light.

In addition to the Sonata, this edition contains arrangements of „La fille aux cheveux de lin“ and „Il pleure dans mon coeur“ by the American violinist Arthur Hartmann. It was Hartmann who inspired Debussy to make an arrangement of his well-known piano piece „Minstrels“, also included in our edition.