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Re: Polovtsian Dances

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2019-01-11 03:22

The (first edition) score on IMSLP has the same thing that you quote from the part in Ex. 1. No natural on the 5th eighth-note to cancel the sharp on the 3rd one. And it's repeated 4 bars later the same way. So that score and the part match.

If there's a reason in the harmony to favor F-natural over F-sharp, I don't see it. So my strong inclination would be to think F-sharp is correct.

However, the fact that F-natural is in both the Bonade and the Hadcock books might argue that the accepted practice has been to bring the F back to a natural in spite of everything. It's a solo passage and no conductor worth his salt would miss the change from the literal text. So you'd have to assume that both players were actually asked to make the change by conductors since there seems to be no reason other than possible mis-reading for playing F-natural. Maybe some erratum that Borodin corrected in rehearsal that never made it into the published edition. Maybe F-natural is in the MS. But even in the vocal score that was published, apparently, at the same time as the orchestral edition, the passage appears as it does in Ex. 1.

If I were pressed (I don't remember what note I played when I last did this), I'd play it as written with the F# and see if I got a reaction from the conductor. In the final analysis, I'm not sure it matters much.

Karl

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