I am looking for sheet music of the complete (original) version of
Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 2 in G major, opus 44. I am looking for
the unabridged version [with no cuts to movt. II]. I am looking for the
two pianos score by Tchaikovsky. [I already have the full orchestral
score]. I am not looking for the 1897 second edition heavily edited by
Ziloti.
It looks like SheetMusicPlus.com has the abridged edition published by
C.F. Peters (P04644):
http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/store/smp_detail.html?item=988369&cart=71513333690&cm_re=289.1.4-_-Results+Item-_-Title
Also, I found another digital version to download from EveryNote.com:
http://www.everynote.com/piano.show/2807.music
I'm not sure what version that is. Could anyone please let me know
where I might purchase [or download] the unabridged complete original
version two pianos score? Thank you!
BC Dunnington
Having downloaded the "Every Note" site i can verify that this is not
the complete unrevised version. A large segment was removed from the
second movement for example. I have a partial copy of the unrevised
version by Belwin Mills Publishing Company formerly of Melville New York.
As this is a library copy you can be sure its been out of print for a
while. Ive been able to locate Belwin Mills but it appears they no long
publish this piece. So the search goes on. Possibly the Tchaikovsky Museum
in Klin may be able to help you.....
Albert Gasparo
The score Mr Gasparo was referring to is a reprint of the edition first
published in the 1950s as part of the Tchaikovsky complete works project (Polnoe
sobranie sochinenii). This series was reissued c.1971 by the firm of
Edwin F Kalmus of New York, whose body of scores were sold to Belwyn Mills
in the mid–1970s. The reprints omit the editorial preface and some of the
notes/appendices.
I'm very pleased to report that someone has scanned the two-piano
version of Tchaikovsky's Second Piano Concerto, and this was forwarded
directly to Mr Dunnington yesterday. We do not have permission to
reproduce it here, but a similar scan may eventually appear among the
increasingly large collection of Tchaikovsky scores at the IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library:
http://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Tchaikovsky%2C_Pyotr_Ilyich
Brett Langston