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In Reply to: RE: Lisa Beznosiuk seems to have a nice, low-key (no pun intended!) personality posted by Todd Krieger on June 23, 2016 at 17:23:44
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She's coming out here to CA to teach a week-long flute class next week. I'll be accompanying for the class - holed-up in a hotel near Point Reyes National Seashore for the whole week. (It's hard work, but somebody's got to do it!) The repertoire seems to be pretty normal: Bach Sonatas, Handel Sonatas, Mozart Various, Schubert "Trockne Blumen" Variations (I - III only), Reinecke Undine Sonata, Faure Various, Prokofiev Sonata, Copland Duo, etc. (I'm just glad there's no Jolivet or Frank Martin - or other awkward stuff for the piano!)
She is a very well known teacher, but I haven't met her. Of course the pieces you mention are standard fare for all high school and college students, but it's a shame there's nothing on the schedule a little more off the beaten track. (And by that, I don't mean atonal, or even necessarily contemporary.) Maybe these are younger students?
As for Jolivet, ugh. As I'm sure you know, the Sonata and Chant de Linos are both horrendously difficult and often played (maybe too often) by superstar advanced students and young pros trying to prove their virtuosity. The Martin is also a competition piece. Anyway, enjoy. I sure would love to be playing that great music in that beautiful setting.
I'm concentrating my practice on the Reinecke, the Copland and the Prokofiev of course. Yeah - Jolivet's Chant de Linos was always my bete noire! ;-)
I'm also going down today to the music store to see if I can find some more current editions of some of this repertoire - I already warned Patricia that I've never changed from the old Rampal/Veyron-Lacroix editions of the Handel Sonatas! ;-) (. . . and BTW, I DID make my own keyboard realization of the first movement of the Bach E-minor Sonata a few years ago - maybe I'll play that and see what the participants say. Parts of it are very influenced by the old "Diamond Music" commercial!)
For the Handel sonatas, try the Barenreiter with the bright red cover. For the J.S. Bach sonatas, I've never replaced my now-ancient Peters edition, also good. Barenreiter has published those too, but I'm not familiar with their edition.
IMHO, the only problem with the International/Rampal editions (aside from the errors, but I see those in other editions too) is that he tends to edit intelligently but heavily. His Prokofiev sonata is a major example. Patricia Harper has come up with her own version of the flute part (I guess that shows what she thinks of Rampal's approach!) but I doubt she would mind if you used the International piano part. I also have the MCA edition which has the advantage of explicitly indicating departures from the original manuscript.
. . . with the violin and flute parts BOTH printed above the piano part. I've never played from this edition (too many page turns!), but it's a great way to compare the differences in the two parts (not to mention what seems to be the wild divergence in the tempo indication for the second movement: Allegretto scherzando for the flute vs. Presto for the violin!).
As for the Handel Sonatas, yes, I'm hoping to find the Barenreiter edition. Not only are most Barenreiter editions up to date in their scholarship, but the way they're printed (i.e., just the layout on the page) is a thing of beauty in itself! I'm so glad that Barenreiter is publishing the works of Debussy now - those old Durand editions seemed to be printed on paper that was one step up from toilet paper - it would start decomposing if you did so much as make an erasure on it! For the Bach Sonatas, I have the Henle edition in addition to the Rampal (International) version. For the Bach G-minor Sonata, I have only the International edition - do people still think the attribution of this piece to J.S. Bach is dubious? It's one of my favorites of the set!
The G-minor is still officially disputed, but I think it's pretty clearly his work. Of course, Henle and Barenreiter have published that too.
And yes, the great bêtes noires of my youth were French music publishers Durand and Alphonse Leduc (publisher of Jacques Ibert and other important French composers). Ultra-expensive, with crappy paper that quickly deteriorated.
They did have the Barenreiter Handel Sonatas ($40). I also got a Barenreiter volume of the Bach G-minor (and other) Sonata(s), as well as a beautifully printed Vienna Urtext Reinecke Undine Sonata (so much better than any other edition I've seen - the others look as if they're still using plates from the 19 century!), a Peters Urtext volume of Faure miscellaneous pieces (part of that Roy Howatt series - and a big step up in Peters' own older quality of printing), and the Barenreiter Mozart Concertos and Andante K. 315. Strange that amidst the general decline of brick-and-mortar stores, this particular store (in Mountain View, CA) was so well stocked. Unfortunately, the Friday afternoon commute traffic started at 2:00 and what can be an hour's drive for me to get back home actually took two hours and fifteen minutes.
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