Schubert & Schumann Song Arrangements [HL:48024129]

Schubert & Schumann Song Arrangements [HL:48024129]

Boosey & Hawkes

$23.99
(No reviews yet) Write a Review
UPC:
888680708894
EAN:
9781784542344
ISBN:
1784542342
Instrumentation:
Study Score
Minimum Order Quantity:
1
Pages:
32
UPC:
888680708894
Format:
Softcover. Study Score
Subtitle:
for Chamber Orchestra. Boosey & Hawkes Scores/Books
Original Currency:
USD
Vendor:
Hal Leonard
Adding to cart… The item has been added
Britten's arrangements of Schubert's The Trout (op 32/D550) for small orchestra, and Schumann's Spring Night (op 39 no 12) for chamber orchestra, dating from 1942, are settings of anonymous English translations. The new edition includes the original German words (Schubart, Eichendorff), as many performers and audiences will prefer the songs in the original language. In his preface, Nicholas Clark, Librarian at the Britten-Pears Foundation, speculates on why the songs were set in English and on the possibility that the translator was Peter Pears, commenting that “the English language settings allowed [Britten] to edge away from existing versions of the songs, to assist him in imprinting his own unique mark on both works.” The Trout is scored for 2 clarinets & strings; Spring Night for flute, oboe, 2 clarinets, bassoon, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, trombone, triangle, harp (or piano) and strings.