

The date on the last page of the MS full score is November 10, 1925. create a usable score from the autograph MS facsimile), the Concerto would still be protected in the US. A quick comparison of the opening pages with the facsimile full score I have shows LOTS of differences in articulation markings and dynamics that may also come from (an uncredited) Campbell-Watson, who supplied the written introduction to the piece 2-PF score.Įven if one were to strip out the Campbell-Watson contributions (i.e. The EU server already has the 2-PF version of the score. This would have to be scanned from the commercial mini score, unfortunately, as I know of no commercially available full-size version of the Campbell-Watson score. But if Campbell-Watson can be dethroned as a substantial contributer (and downgraded to the status of an editor of an urtext edition, who regularizes articulations etc.) it seems to me that it would be OK for the IMSLP EU server to host a copy of the Campbell-Watson full score. But without slogging through the article and the two scores, it would be difficult to assess the extent of the Campbell-Watson contributions. Campbell-Watson) and the autograph full score MS. This article tabulates the major differences between the printed full score (ed. It can be purchased online for $14 if you cannot find it in a nearby library. There is an important article by Wayne Shirley on the orchestration of the concerto that may have a bearing on its copyright status. And if your orchestra creates parts from this score, feel free to upload them and do everybody a service. If it is PD in Europe, then it can be carried by IMSLP's EU server. I have not seen this score but it bears investigating. So it must be determined whether the EM score is PD and where. Parts derived from the EM score would have the same copyright status as the score.

A search of the Editio Musica site produced no printed parts for this score. There is a non-Campbell-Watson mini-score from Editio Musica Budapest listed at Įditio Musica claims a 1992 copyright on the first page of their edition.

The album saw a limited release in Japan.Ĥ.I believe that the Concerto's first appearance in full score was in the Campbell-Watson redaction and this was first published in the 1942. This was Roberts' second time working with Ozawa on a live recording, A Gershwin Night being the first. It features Roberts' arrangement of Gershwin's concerto. Gershwin: Piano Concerto in F is an album by Marcus Roberts, his trio and the Saito Kinen Orchestra under the direction of Seiji Ozawa, recorded live at the Saito Kinen Festival in 2005.
