Music score editions & my little music library 

Some recommendadtions: - Henle: always Urtext, editions with and without fingerings, very readable - Breitkopf: most of the time Urtext, sadly no preface, best (and only truly good) editions for page-turning - Bärenreiter: good for piano concertos especially, always Urtext, not the best paper quality but perfectly fine - Editio Budapest: good for Liszt - Edition Peters: most of the time not urtext but editions by famous pianists (which is good for comparisons), they manage to print a lot of music into one book - Schirmer: actually white pages!!!, sadly not too much variety - Schott: good for more contemporary music, their suggestions at the end of the books are also fantastic bc they have some very obscure unknown music printed

Happy Mother’s Day by the way 😜❤️ which are your favorite editions to work with and why? Tell me in the comments!😊

Wiener Urtext followed shortly by Henle. Just noticed recently, that Wiener Urtext bindings are just perfect in my opinion. You get a new book, open it, and it stays open just perfect. I mean even with big books like one of the Beethoven Sonatas. Also the Cover is really good. Noticed that after I had a Peters edition where the cover didn't liked to be put in my backpack. It is not horrible, but just inconvinient. I also enjoy all the explanaition in the Wiener Urtext, and I enjoy the cover. Henle is in all this points just a little bit less good. Not much, I really like to work with Henle, but I enjoy Wiener Urtext more. On thing I think is interesting about Henle is the difficulty score you get. Since it is also online I always will look it up, and after learning a piece, check if it was really easier/harder. I am sure there are also many other ways to judge the difficulty, but I am now familiar with Henle, and they have judged many pieces, so I go for it.

Thanks for showing how is being a classical musician. As someone who likes classic music but is not a professional player (not even a good one) it's a very interesting content. May you make a video showing what kind of things you write in your scores? I am curious about the notes you write in the challenge videos.

Annique: When the printing is too small, like the Ossia, photocopy it at 150% or so then cut and paste (by hand) to make a bigger score. If the section is not long of course. Also, I get most of my music spiral bound. Not sure about Germany but most small print shops do this cheaply. It’s so much easier to play from lie-flat scores.

Glad to see you mark your scores up. I usually try not to, but then some passage will force me to put fingerings in there a little bit, then I see that it would be much easier to remember if I did a harmonic analysis, then I end up putting the rest of the difficult fingerings in, then I practice some more and see better ways to do the harmonic analysis. Which brings me to my main point, a good mechanical pencil with an eraser that actually works is really helpful if you’re going to mark up a score. They also write thinner than a standard No. 2 pencil.

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3:48 Wow, a Soviet score of Mozart's 13 piano concerto (probably from IMSLP mentioned above)

Can you play The Lark by Glinka for a 1 minute, 10 minute, 1 hour challenge?

Please make a video on which publisher is generally best or recommended for which composer!

I was at a monthly piano meet up this morning which is hosted by the music shop in town. Afterwards I was stood in front of the shelves of sheet music wondering this exact thing. I wanted to buy Book one of the WTK but there were maybe 20 different editions ranging from £7 to £25. I've got a few Edition Peters, not intentionally, in the past and they are quite clear and well printed and laid out. I also got a Schimer book of McFarren excerises which is ok, but quite basic. I think I'll go for Henle with fingerings.

Urtext es la que más uso, pero como tú dices, me gusta comparar ediciones para tener más alternativas de fraseo, articulaciones, digitaciones, etc. Saludos y buena práctica. 😉

Henle rocks. I love everything I have from them.

I mostly use Alfred Editions, which are published in the United States. Many of them are edited carefully and, most of the time, they are based on the composer's original intentions. Editorial work is always shown in a different color (light grey), so that you know that it's coming from an editor. I also use Schirmer editions. Some of them are good and some of them have a lot of additional accidentals and things which are not necessary. It really depends on what you are playing. For Chopin, I like the Paderewski edition because of the note size and the clean pages.

Loved this, I'm very interested in Sheet music and yes I buy a lot of it and the Henle scores are my favourite but Bärenreiter, Schott and Breitkopf also make excellent ones.

I really love watching your videos and your playing of course is top-notch and so thoughtful ! How many concerti do you have in your repertoire and how do you decide on learning a new piece like the Moskowsky concerti which one rarely gets to program.

I love Henle Editions!!

henle' editions are definitely my no.1 choice 🤩 The only thing bad is sooooo freaking expensiveeee

finally a classical musician ive seen pronouncing all the composers name right

Usually, I buy Schirmer Editions, because Henle is expensive to me, but i have been thinking about starting to buy Henle, editions because ik the Urtext is what i would love to have. ~🥖

Personnellement je privilégie les éditions bien imprimées, lisibles, et surtout avec les doigtés. J'achète surtout du Henlé, mais pas que. Je télécharge aussi beaucoup à partir de la bibliothèque de Musescore (payant mais pas très cher). De temps en temps IMSP bien-sûr.

It would be very good if you made a video on how to read music score or tips on reading music score, like a very basic video.

I am a complete noob with piano playing and I have a few books. Most of them are henle editions because the notes are big and I like that all my scores are written in the same style. In my Chopin Henle books there are quite a lot of comments and dynamics, whereas in my Bach's two-part inventions from Henle, there is literally none. Not that I care too much as an amateur, but you can see that these Henle editions only put in stuff that is historically accurate Also, I just like having these henle books because I like collecting the music I love. Henle is all round praised and the books have clean looks, which is reason enough for me to just go for them

watching while my tuner is here tuning my piano 😆

Thank you for the imslp info! I am just about to start looking for online resources, as I don't have a sheet music shop nearby (and you don't always know what you get when ordering a book online).

interesting you mentioned the Kalkbrenner so often lul cause that concerto was the way i found this channel in the first place (id call myself a Kalkbrenner simp tbh... a lot of his stuff (esp. the early year to mid-year pieces) is really cool hehe)

I like mostly Henle. Peters for Mozart concertos. Paderewski for Chopin. On IMSLP, I usually will print off the Breitkopf and Hartel edition :)

Can you make a video about the additional annotations and markings pianists usually do in their scores? Apart from the obvious like fingerings for example

IMSLP and similar resources only, but for me this is enough.

Here in Brazil, and specifically in my region (the state of Pernambuco), we practically have no access to original editions of sheet music. This is due to the high prices and the scarce availability. Sheet music is not sold in bookstores, and I only know of one national website that sells them. Almost everyone here uses photocopies or homemade prints. Those who have original editions practically don't use them, given their high cost. I took a bookbinding course, and I print and bind my own editions. I have also been doing it for some of my friends.

Where did you get the boxes/crates to hold your scores? I would love to get something that fits them so snugly!

In my country we use a lot of Ricordi (originally an Italian publisher, I think)

You can play Rach III, Ossia? Wow!

Henle urtext are one of my favourites go to. I’m still within Grade6-7, but I’d always like to browse through henle books

One of the most elusive editions (i only read the abridged versions) of Beethoven's 32, is the edition by Russian Goldenveizer.

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Echt schönes und interessantes Video! 👍 Ich habe bislang nur Noten von Henle und Schott. 😊

I personally like to look at Henle scores' previews and engrave them myself on a notation software, but not always. Just for the ones that look crazy to the eyes…

I’m curious what edition you use for Chopin etudes. It looks like you use Ekier, but I wonder if you also use any other editions (I also find Cortot’s editions useful, for the exercises and the fingerings).

Debussy gradus ad parnassum in the background 😃😃

I've bought every edition under the sun...but for me the best were "Dover"(probably out of business)...they were ridiculously affordable and have held up well...have you tried downloading on an I pad?...its a great way to magnify the music if you need to.

Is it Debussy in the background? One of the preludes? It sounds familiar… Great video and sending love from the Vadstena academy in Sweden!

In the Ossia, they have to make it extra difficult, so it's not enough that it's difficult to play, it has to be difficult to read too!

Henle and baerenreiter are the best!

How long is your new Boston piano, and did you feel a difference switching from the C2 you had?

Henle and then Schirmer as a close second. I love Henle but I wish their covers were a little more durable. Probably so they can sell the plastic cases. Ah, well... Henle is still top. But Schimmer Performance Editions are also fantastic. Alfreds is highly recommended.

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Any reason for not using apps for the scores?

I wish I knew about IMSLP before creating 3 Musescore accounts and cancelling before the trial expired

For me the best is Henle!

Are your scores sorted chronologically?

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Which Czerny exercises would you recommend for an advanced piano player? I can play the 1st Chopin Ballade and Skrjabin 8/12 pretty well but I always skipped finger exercises hahahah Warte warum schreibe ich auf englisch lol egal Bin halt etwas verwirrt weil es so viele Versionen gibt (op. 800 oder so)

Henle, Barenreiter or Peters (only the urtext ones) for most repertoire, choice depending on most recent scholarship. Chopin: Chopin National Edition Beethoven Sonatas: ABRSM Other than that, Wiener Urtext.

Can you please do "Liebestraum No. 3" by Franz Liszt (1min, 10min, 1h Challenge)

When I was a kid (1950s, 1960s) there was no online buying. So you bought what waa available at the music store. I don't like the Schirmer editions, but I am familiar with them. I learned too much Mozart, Beethoven, etc. with those editions. Is it worth the extra expense for me to buy the Henle editions?

What concerto did she say she played that she didn't find the scores?

Can you play Liszt transcendental etude no. 12 in a challenge?

Are you going to do the Unravel song?

Can you play Chopin etude op 25 no. 5 “wrong note”? For the 1 minute, 10 minute and 1 hour challenge.

holly crap! did you see how worn those beethoven sonatas were? She must have worked reallllly hard on those. I think i'm going to think twice before i get one of those. unless it's opus 49.

Have you done chopins nocturne in E flat major (1min, 10min, 1hour?)

I like Schott's Wiener Urtext editions as much as I like Henle.

During the last years I stopped completely playing from printed scores. I prefer so much playing from the Tablet, no longer forgotten or aging scores who fall apart…

Hallo Annique, ich hätte eine Idee für deine 1 min. 10 min. 1 std. Videos, den Radetzky Marsch

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played love dream? if not, can you shoot the challenge in 1 minute 10 minutes 1 hour?

Can you please play moonlight sonata 1st movement by beethoven witj 1min 10min 1hour challange?

a little surprise..... i thought you would go into details like, for bach, what editions you recommend, for Haydn, for Beethoven etc..... And, i am a little surprise when you show your Rach-3, you seems to mark more note (eg C, E F etc) rather than fingerings...... just an observation.

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Important to me: The binding must lay open easily, and flat. Perfect binding is a disaster, as the glue holds individual pages to face each other, forcing you to forever bend or crease the pages ineffectually every time you use the book, until the glue breaks. Soon after that (a years-long process) the pages just fall out of the book or the whole book breaks in half, really annoying when you're carrying it within a stack of other books. Sewn is better than staples, but neither last forever. Nothing does. (I know because I'm forever years old.) I dislike scores that place notes on the opposite staff/clef for no good reason, perhaps just to avoid a few ledger lines. It makes it harder to read. Schirmer is the biggest offender of this infraction, and the binding issue too. Some room between notes and staves for my own annotations and fingerings is unnoticed when it's there, frustrating when it isn't. I do prefer scores that are sensitive to page turns' location and quantity, but it's a balance. A quick scan before purchase can reveal how much care was taken over everything else by this one thing. Is this really a score for practical use? Also, conventional size is better than extra large pages, as it's harder to turn pages quickly and it messes up the bookshelf if it fits at all. I like books to have a really good table of contents. The kind with a fragment of music are the easiest to use, and the kind with a list of opus numbers and no keys are the hardest.

You didn't say anything about fingerings, did you?

Liebestraum 1 min 10 min 1 hr???

Schirmer editions are pretty poor. Especially Bach. Cheap though. Henle is the way to go.

Just as long as the scores aren't Kalmus editions... 😝

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I bet all of those books cost so expensive 😭

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I love your videos! However, I don't think it's very tasteful to ask for a "thumbs up and subscribe" every time. I feel like people will do that regardless of you asking in every video... :)

I couldn’t even bare looking at those scores! Too small

@Heart of the Keys You really must wear shoes during your videos because it is disrespectful otherwise. Thank you.