Dvořák: Cello Concerto in B Minor, Op. 104
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- Composer: Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904)
- Editor: Jonathan Del Mar (1951-)
- Piano reduction: Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904)
- Instrumentation (this edition): Cello, Piano Reduction
- Originally for: Cello, Orchestra
- Work: Cello Concerto in B Minor, B. 191, Op. 104
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- Size: 10.0 x 12.8 inches
- Pages: 48
- Urtext / Critical Edition
Description
Like every other great 19th-century solo concerto, Dvořák's famous Cello Concerto was a collaboration between composer and virtuoso. It has long been known that certain solo passages in Dvořák's autograph score were actually written by the cellist Hanu Wihan; but Bärenreiter's edition now reveals that some details in the orchestral parts are also in his writing, showing just how closely the two musicians were working together.
The editor Jonathan Del Mar has painstakingly examined all the surviving sources, including two that have hitherto been either ignored or crucially undervalued, in order to produce an authoritative edition which restores – for the first time since the original edition was published in 1896 - Dvořák's final and definitive version of the solo cello part. This differs, in details, in almost every bar from the version found in all other modern editions, while hundreds of corrections have also been made to the orchestral parts.
This edition includes both Feuermann's and Casals' alternatives to a passage in the first movement.
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Dvořák: Cello Concerto in B Minor, Op. 104
