Intégrale des Sonates Volume 1 - Piano

Nice edition of Beethoven’s sonatas

Che dire...Beethoven è Beethoven

日本の製本よりフラットに限りなく近く開きます。力をかけなくても良いです。分厚いのですがその割には重くもないです。糸で綴じてあります。印刷は、くっきり黒が濃く昔の楽譜っていう感じですが、いい味出してます。インクの良い匂い。紙はクリーム色、やや薄く、でもしっかりしていてツルツル気味の滑らかな良い紙質です。暫く使ってみて。運指が好きです。19世紀に音楽理論学者のシェンカーによるものと思われます。

So many of these paperback music scores have a somewhat inflexible binding, and the pages don't like to stay open. Given that a majority of modern pianos do not come with those neat little brass clamps that hold the pages open, I seem to spend as much of my time fighting with the pages open as I do actually playing the piano.Having said that, with judicious use of clothes pegs, I have managed to impose some kind of control on this wild, rampant music book and subject it to my unreasonable demands.Other than that, the print and layout is clear, the annotations appear adequate and I am gradually getting to grips with the music. The version appears to be a very accurate one (I am no expert on these matters), so the publishers are making few if any concessions to my rather dodgy playing technique.Overall, setting aside the above somewhat lighthearted cavills (which I guess may be shared by 90% of piano music), I would class this copy of Beethoven's Complete Sonatas as 'Jolly Good Value'.

This edition is available at a fraction of the price and (contrary to the comments of other reviewers) is probably more accurate than other Urtext editions. The famous musicologist Heinrich Schenker is known for his extreme attention to detail, including, for example, the directions of the stems (which other Urtext editions are not). The only caveat to accuracy is that Beethoven's autographs for a few of the sonatas were not available to the world in Schenker's time but have since become available. Although I always ignore printed fingering, Schenker's is among the most sensible I have seen. The only drawback to this edition is that it is somewhat prescriptive, in the sense that it does not offer choices in the way the Henle edition does. Physically, the Dover edition will last longer and stay open better than other paperback editions.