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Title: Performance Practices in the Violin Concerto Op. 64 and Chamber Music for Strings of Felix Mendelssohn
Author: Clive Brown
Languages: English, German
Publisher: Barenreiter
Size: 72 pages
A scholarly companion to any performing edition of Mendelssohn’s great concerto, including:
- An essay on general performance practices in the Mendelssohn’s Leipzig
- A measure-by-measure commentary on historical performance practices in the Violin Concerto
- Facsimiles of source material
Excerpt from the essay:
“Interpreting the content of historical performing editions requires not only substantial knowledge and understanding of the fingering and bowing techniques of the period in which they were produced, but also of the other ways in which leading musicians of the period responded to the notation in very different ways from modern performers. There can be no doubt that Felix Mendelssohn and Ferdinand David would have been astonished, puzzled, and perhaps horrified by the conventional late-twentieth and early twenty-first century approaches to performing the Violin Concerto, for many of the practices they will have considered essential to a sensitive reading of the notation are entirely absent.”
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