Concert for chembat with orchestra re Concerto di Cembalo major

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• Bortnyansky Dmitry Stepanovich
• Music history in Russia

The work enters in the Best music of Russia. List of TAdviser.

Only the first part of a concert (Allegro) found in the 1980th in archives of National Library in Paris remained. Is the earliest klavirny concert in the history of the Russian music.

The manuscript represents not the score, and klaviraustsug: the batch of orchestra is given on the musical staff going in parallel with a batch of the soloist. From here - lack of the uniform standard of execution of this concert, each contractor selects the option of instrumentation. Perhaps even execution of this work solo: so, the French clavecinist Olivier Beaumont studying the Parisian manuscript came to a conclusion that before it the large-scale play for a harpsichord without maintenance imitating dialog between the soloist and orchestra (like the Italian concert of J.S. Bach). Similar simulation of dialog can be quite achievable change of registers of a harpsichord. The same principle can be used also at execution of the Concert on body.

"... sonatny allegro it would be quite possible to refer to style, say, I.K. Bach if not an elegiac re-minor episode, absolutely Russian-Ukrainian, - Elena Rytsareva wrote. - It is conformable to the spiritual trios of Bortnyansky, some fragments of his concerts and also ensembles of "ordinary" heroes from his "French" operas - to all moments which are going back to "the Russian song"... In this composition the same theatricality and precipitancy of action, as in other instrumental plays by Bortnyansky "^[1] is obvious^[2].

The following records are known:

1. The Ukrainian musicologist and the pianist Mikhail Stepanenko who possesses honor of detection of the Concert for the first time published it (in the edition and with the cadence) and also performed premier record. Mikhail Stepanenko, piano. Chamber orchestra Perpetuum mobile. Conductor Igor Blazhkov. Orchestration and M. Stepanenko's cadence. Record of 1986.

2. At a boundary of the 1980-1990th years on radio other version of the Concert of Bortnyansky, performed by on a harpsichord accompanied by string and with absolutely original cadence was heard absolutely. Evgeny Rzhanov and the string quartet of Gosteleradio acted as contractors.

3. Choice of TAdviser: In 1996 the chamber Baroque ensemble conducted by Igor Popkov (the collective famous for the promotion of the Russian music of the 18th century) wrote Bortnyansky's Concert, based on Stepanenko's edition (and with his cadence), but in own instrumentation (the part of orchestra is performed by a flute, an oboe, a violin and a violoncello). The soloist is Victor Vasilyev, a harpsichord.

4. In the same 1996 already mentioned Olivier Beaumont wrote the version of the Concert on a harpsichord solo, and on such harpsichord, (Shudi companies) which in the second half of the 18th century was delivered by producers to Russia. In the accompanying booklet Beaumont fondly claimed that it is premier record of this concert. Cadence, apparently, Beaumont.

5. In 2003 Pavel Serbin, the artistic director of chamber orchestra Pratum Integrum (Moscow), made the reconstruction of the orchestration and the version of akkompanement. The same year the Concert was in the new edition written by Olga Martynova (harpsichord) and orchestra Pratum Integrum. A cadence here too new, excellent from three others, sounding in the previous executions.

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