ISOLUTION

20TH CENTURY COMPOSERS 4199

The Complete Chopin – A New Critical Edition from Edition Peters is firmly established as the most important ongoing scholarly edition of Chopin’s music and is a must for any discerning pianist. The world’s foremost Chopin editors, under Editor-in-chief John Rink, bring their unrivalled collective knowledge to imbue the project with unique authority, drawing upon the latest international scholarship. The Complete Chopin prioritizes the needs of the practical pianist and provides a beautifully presented performing text of each work based on a single principal source together with important variants, along with thorough critical commentaries and illuminating prefatory essays in English, French and German.
Chopin’s etudes occupy a central position in piano literature. Prized by generations of the greatest pianists as the supreme examples in the genre, their reputation rests on their not only challenging specific aspects of a pianist’s technique but also for being great music, transcending the genre of mere ‘study’.
In this edition of Opus 10 (the earlier of Chopin’s two sets of studies, ending with the famous ‘Revolutionary’ etude), pianist and musicologist Roy Howat presents a new edition which addresses many of the misunderstandings created by a very poorly engraved first French edition (containing errors which were then carried over to the German and English editions) – an edition which nevertheless included many important revisions made at the proof stage.
Using this first French edition as a primary source, Howat produces an Urtext edition which, while recording noteworthy variants from a variety of sources, is not a ‘conflated’ version, but a coherent performing edition in its own right, ideal for all who aspire to play these cornerstones of piano repertoire in an informed way.
Etüde C-Dur op. 10 Nr. 1
Etüde a-Moll op. 10 Nr. 2
Etüde E-Dur op. 10 Nr. 3
Etüde cis-Moll op. 10 Nr. 4
Etüde Ges-Dur op. 10 Nr. 5
Etüde es-Moll op. 10 Nr. 6
Etüde C-Dur op. 10 Nr. 7
Etüde F-Dur op. 10 Nr. 8
Etüde f-Moll op. 10 Nr. 9
Etüde As-Dur op. 10 Nr. 10
Etüde Es-Dur op. 10 Nr. 11
Etüde c-Moll op. 10 Nr. 12

In 1721 a 20-year-old soprano employed at the princely court in Köthen married the court’s Kapellmeister, set to become the greatest composer of the age. As his second wife she married into a young family with four children, and a busy household filled with music. The music book that Johann Sebastian Bach presented to his new wife Anna Magdalena in 1722, and replaced more lavishly in 1725, treats us to a tantalizing glimpse inside this unique family, allowing us to sit beside Bach as a composer, teacher, husband and father. Over the years, these notebooks became a place for the family to share instructional exercises, favourite pieces – by Bach and other composers – to play or sing, early composition efforts from the children, and first versions of some of Bach’s more ambitious keyboard works.Drawn from Christoph Wolff’s new and cutting-edge scholarly edition of the complete Anna Magdalena Notebooks, Edition Peters is proud to present a new volume of shorter and easier pieces from the notebooks, perfect for practical use by students of all ages and their teachers.Urtext edition by pre-eminent Bach scholar Christoph Wolff, Harvard Professor and former Director of the Leipzig Bach Archive Represents the very latest in Bach scholarship, reflecting up-to-the-minute research on texts, authorship and copyists A selection of the most popular pieces from the two notebooks in a practical student edition.Contains works for keyboard and vocal pieces, following the practice of musical education and performance in Bach’s home.