The Complete Chopin - Introduced by John Rink

Описание: '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.

'The Complete Chopin' is based on two key premises. First, there can be no definitive version of Chopin’s works: variants form an integral part of the music. Second, a permissive conflation of readings from several sources – in effect producing a version of the music that never really existed – should be avoided. Accordingly, the editors’ procedure is to identify a single principal source for each work and to prepare an edition of that source (which they regard as ‘best’, even if it cannot be definitive). At the same time, important variants from other authorized sources are reproduced either adjacent to or, in certain instances, within the main music text, in footnotes or in the Critical Commentary, thus enabling scholarly comparison and facilitating choice in performance. Multiple versions of whole works are presented when differences between the sources are so abundant or fundamental that they go beyond the category of ‘variant.’

Titles in the series so far:
Ballades (EP 7531)
Préludes (EP 7532)
Waltzes (EP 7575)
Impromptus (EP 71906)
Trois Nouvelles Études for Piano (EP 73229)
Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor Op. 11 (EP 7529)
Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor Op. 21 (EP 71919)

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