John Gardiner commissioned a new edition of the Bach Cantatas for his
tour of Europe/US in 2000. I was amazed how quickly the editor was able to handle this project, given that there are over 200 cantatas, and gathering the sources must have been daunting.
Why do Complete Editions by Barenreiter take so much longer versus something that John Gardiner did?
On 2/2/06, Johannes Gebauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 02.02.2006 David W. Fenton wrote:
> Well, the early NMA editions that are so problematic did not meet the
> standards set in the NMA editorial guidelines, either. The NBA
> guidelines are even better than the NMA's, which tended to privilege
> autograph readings over all other sources even when that was not
> justified (and the NBA didn't approach it that way at all, perhaps
> because of the quite different source situation with regard to Bach's
> music as opposed to Mozart's).
>
Well, NBA made other mistakes. For instance they priviliged autograph
scores over autograph parts, which is very problematic in many cases. A
good example is the B minor mass, where the score really isn't a
reliable source, while the parts are much more important. Fortunately
the B minor mass has also been redone for NBA in the last few years.
The source situations for Mozart and Bach are very different.
Johannes
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