Reviewing Vladimir Spivakov and Olga Kern.
Boston Globe, February 20, 2012.
The Schubert-Franko "Valse sentimentale" Spivakov played for an encore was new to me; are there any violinists out there that can tell me exactly what Schubert waltz Franko arranged? Or was he passing off his own piece as Schubert's, à la Kreisler?
Kern and Spivakov played the Valse Sentimentale in our studio last Friday afternoon. It comes up 25:49 in the audio here:
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After listening to the studio recording from last week, I have spent a moderatate amount of time searching for the score, but with no success. I would really like to play this.
ReplyDeleteI did find several references to this score (copyright recorded at the Library of Congress) and this listing of which libraries it's available in
ReplyDeletehttp://www.worldcat.org/title/valse-sentimentale/oclc/011333933
Unfortunately, I haven't found a commercial source for purchasing it yet.
I have found the source for the "outer" sections of this piece. It's from the German Dances (Deutsche Tanze) Op. 33 No. 10, originally for solo piano. I haven't been able to find the source for the middle section.
ReplyDeleteI also haven't been able to track down why this transcription is labelled "Valse sentimentale" when the original is labelled as a German Dance (and not Waltz or Valse Sentimentale, which are specific names I found for other Schubert piano solo works).