Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (Concertstück) - Original Version
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Full Score. Composed by Robert Schumann. Edited by Josephine Knight. Orchestra. Edition Peters. Full Score. 64 pages. Duration 00:22:00. Edition Peters #98-EP73488A. Published by Edition Peters (PE.EP73488A).ISBN 9790577020952. 297 x 420 mm inches. English / German / French.
Schumann's Cello Concerto Rediscovered
In her first Urtext edition for Edition Peters, internationally renowned cellist Josephine Knight reveals Robert Schumann's original version of his Cello Concerto in A minor Op. 129 - a piece he actually called a Concertstück' - removing generations of inauthentic editorial interventions. This is the only available modern scholarly edition of the work as Schumann originally conceived it, and restores the text from October 1850, based on the composer's manuscript held in the Biblioteka Jagiellonska in Kraków. This Full Score matches the separately available edition for Cello and Piano (EP 73488). Matching orchestral material is also available from the publisher.
- Only modern Urtext edition based on Schumann's original 1850 manuscript
- Many new corrections and clarifications, especially to the cello part
- Scholarly preface detailing history of the work and this edition by editor Josephine Knight, Piatti Professor of Cello at the Royal Academy of Music London
- Cello Part contains Josephine Knight's fingering and bowing suggestions
- Critical Commentary
- Cello and piano edition available separately from Edition Peters; orchestral parts available for rental
- Recording of the Concertstück featuring Josephine Knight available from Dutton
Robert Schumann's tragic last years have mired many of his greatest works in unnecessary doubt. The story of the suppression of his Violin Concerto by well-meaning friends is relatively well-known. Few, however, know that the version of the Cello Concerto that is routinely heard today is so far from Schumann's original conception of the work - not only in details of phrasing and articulation, but also featuring a different ending with a bold final flourish from the cello. Composed in a burst of inspiration in two weeks in October 1850 shortly after he and Clara had moved to Düsseldorf, Schumann (who in 1850 was still in.