Author: Klose ★2017
Date: 2017-08-30 12:28
I don't know what's your attitude toward sheet music. To me, a good edition is like a good friend that you can keep for a very long time. Luckily, for most standard clarinet repertoire, we now have the very good editions, eg, Henle for Weber, Brahms, Debussy etc; Bärenreiter for Mozart; Wilhelm Hansen for Nielsen. However, on the other hand, it is really annoying that some publishers, which have the copyright of some relatively new music, still sell the ancient editions for a very high price. Two examples here are: 1. Messiaen's The End of Time Quartet published by Durand. 2 Ligeti's Six Bagatelles published by Schott. In the first case, the music is plate engraved, whose readability is of course terrible compared to the digital ones. In the second case, the situation is even worse, the music is handwritten! I really don't understand why these publishers are too lazy to engrave these music again using notation software. And as musicians, we have to spend a large amount of money to buy these low quality sheet music.
Here I also list some my favorite editions:
Mozart Concerto: most people use Bärenreiter edition but here I recommend the recently published Schott one (Edited by Meyer/Wehle). In this edition, it contains a revised version for standard A clarinet and also some very useful editorial suggestions for articulation and dynamics (although it also unfortunately contains some errors).
Mozart Trio: Bärenreiter
Mozart Quintet: Breitkopf & Härtel. The only edition contains a Basset clarinet version.
All Brahms, Debussy, Berg, Weber three concertos, Saint-Saëns, Schumann: Henle.
Nielsen: Wilhelm Hansen.
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