Ysaye 6 Sonatas op. 27

May 20, 2009 at 09:42 PM ·

Henle Urtext. 

May 20, 2009 at 11:10 PM ·

Hi,

There are two editions available.  The Schirmer Edition contains the text as originally published, with Ysaÿe's original bowings and fingerings, but it contains a number of known errors/omissions.  The Henle does not really rectify all of these but does contain fingerings and bowings by Frank Peter Zimmerman in addition to Ysaÿe's markings, but many of the errors are not corrected - for example, the ostinato as the opening of the Sarabande of #4 should be played twice before the piece begins, but even in the Henle, this correction does not appear.

Joseph Gingold did have a corrected part of the sonatas, with the corrections in Ysaÿe's own hand writing done when he studied with him, but it was never published and disappeared at the time of his death; what a tremendous lost for scholarship.  However, Yuval Yaron's recording was done with a corrected part taking the markings from Gingold.  It can serve as a reference.

Cheers!

May 23, 2009 at 01:57 AM ·

Available publications:

Six Sonatas for Violin solo op. 27 Ed.: Norbert Gertsch, Fing. Vl.: Eugène Ysaÿe, Preface: Michel Stockhem    Urtext Edition, paperbound     Henle  HN 776     $38.95    
      
Sonatas, 6, Op.27 G. Schirmer, Inc. 1927 GS32849    Violin Solo    $14.95    U. S. agent Hal Leonard HL 50328490

Sonatas, 6 et une Etude posthume, Op.27    Schott Frères    SF8960    Violin Solo    POP

Sonata 1 to 6 available for download at  SheetMusicNow.com   $5.95 or $7.95
http://www.freehandmusic.com/Search.aspx?All=Ysaye


Sonata No.1, "Grave" Op.27   download at www.everynote.com    Violin Solo    $2.44           
Sonata No.2, "Obsession Prelude" Op.27 download at www.everynote.com    Violin Solo   $2.44           
Sonata No.3, "Ballade" Op.27   download at www.everynote.com    Violin Solo    $2.44           
Sonata No.4, "Allemande" Op.27   download at www.everynote.com    Violin Solo    $2.44       
Sonata No.5, "L'Aurore" Op.27  download at www.everynote.com    Violin Solo    $2.44           
Sonata No.6, Op.27    download at www.everynote.com    Violin Solo    $2.44           
http://everynote.com/index.php?s=s&ser=Ysaye&violin_ch=on&x=17&y=13 

Information from the Choy/Nieweg/Chudnovsky "Chart of the Available Publications of Ysaye".

May 23, 2009 at 03:39 AM ·

Why not just download them for free at IMSLP, rather than paying for it? (Unless you want the Urtext with all the mistakes.)

May 24, 2009 at 08:35 PM ·

Thank you. 

Gary

May 25, 2009 at 01:28 AM ·

Eugène Ysaÿe (July 16, 1858 – May 12, 1931)

Since this work was first published after 1922, it is highly unlikely that this work is public domain in the USA. However, it is in the public domain in Canada (where IMSLP is hosted), the EU, and in countries where the copyright term is life+70 years or less.

IMSLP does not assume any sort of legal responsibility or liability for the consequences of downloading files that are not in the public domain in your country.

May 25, 2009 at 05:21 AM ·

That was a "thank you to all".  I was tempted but I didn't download from IMSLP.

Gary