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Excellent full size score of this popular opera,
This review is from: Der Rosenkavalier in Full Score (Dover Vocal Scores) (German Edition) (Paperback)
This publisher offers full orchestral scores of several of Strauss' operas in full size for moderate prices, because they are copies from old editions.The printing of this score of Der Rosenkavalier, certainly his most popular opera, is excellent, the edition is reliable. Meanwhile there may be one or two other cheap editions of this score, but not at this size.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Strauss' most Popular,
This review is from: Der Rosenkavalier in Full Score (Dover Vocal Scores) (German Edition) (Paperback)
Der Rosenkavelier represented a new type of music drama for Richard Strauss. Prior to this time, his operas were quite hard edged: Salome, the story of a young woman whose erotic dancing skills cost John the Baptist his head, and Elektra, the story of a young woman who avenges her father's murder on her mother and her mother's lover. Der Rosenkavelier is, by contrast, rather tranquil. It tells the story of an older woman who, despite her love for a young man (played by a young woman), assists that young man in winning the love of a young woman. It's drama is small, Chekhovian even, and comparisons have often been made to Mozart's Marriage of Figaro. Dover reprinted a numbered copy, number 36 to be precise, of a limited first printing edited and published in 1910 by Strauss' publisher and friend, Adolf Furstner. This volume is, perhaps, the best buy among all Dover's opera scores, especially for Strauss lovers. This volume contains an English translation of all frontismatter and a glossary of German musical terms. The score is large and legible enough to conduct from, and the rehearsal markers correspond with those of the parts. And, as always, the price is a baseline bargain. If you love this opera, buy this score.
4.0 out of 5 stars
A feast for the eyes and ears,
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This review is from: Der Rosenkavalier in Full Score (Dover Vocal Scores) (German Edition) (Paperback)
Since its first appearance on stage in Dresden in 1911, Strauss' Rosenkavalier has, justly, become a staple favourite of the operatic repertoire everywhere. The combination of dramaturgical skill, the beauty and literary sensitivity of Hofmannsthal's libretto (which might in its own right work as a stage play without music) and Strauss' extraordinary music, commands careful study, and the ready availability of a full score such as this so cheaply is greatly to be welcomed.This is an edition strictly for study rather than for use in performance: reducing a score of these dimensions to a single volume as slender as it is means of course that sometimes the print is rather small, to the point that one almost needs a magnifying glass to read it. But at the price Dover has offered, this is scarce to be resisted, and opera-lovers, students of music and even some professional musicians will find this a useful asset on their shelves.
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