Posted by this on May 06, 2002 at 21:54:36:
In Reply to: Vaughan Williams Concerto Curiosity posted by Chris Horsch on May 06, 2002 at 10:24:36:
Possibly the most accurate version would be to copy the solo part off of the rental orchestra score (in V.W.'s script) that comes when one rents the score and parts.
I copied the solo part from that score years ago, and it contains literally hundreds of differences...some of the pitches that still are not corrected in the "new corrected" edition.
Further, all printed "for sale" solo + piano editions are horribly over edited with all sorts of (possibly facilitating for some, but not very musical) tounguing and slurring marks (possibly originally added by P. Catalinet). The "rental score" solo part has many big long sweeping phrase markings with out all of the obsessive articulation markings of the printed solo part...some more difficult to execute, but when mastered - much cuter.