This was fascinating. I'm particularly fond of the Henle editions. My music library is dominated by their distinctive grayish-blue palette. How delightful to learn some inside perspectives from Henle's managing director. His reflections on the meaning of Urtext were quite intriguing.

@Living-the-Classical-Life

Жыл бұрын

So glad you enjoyed this! ✨

This episode was such a pleasure and a diversion from the expected. My dear and now departed college piano professor lives on through his written exhortations in my Henle Bach scores. You two get at something important with this conversation: these texts take on an emotional life of their own, wrapped up in the toil and triumph of their performers. It is heart-warming to hear about the meticulous care and craftsmanship that are invested in the process and product.

We needed this one! Love Henle!

@Living-the-Classical-Life

Жыл бұрын

And he's such a character--a great spokesperson for the company!

What an interesting subject and what interesting questions (and answers!). It makes me happy to see two people being enthusiastic about something. I am a huge fan of your interview series and this interview stand out for me. Thank you very much!

@Living-the-Classical-Life

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so so much for watching and for giving us your enthusiastic words of feedback, Erik! Please keep in touch, zsolt

Such a wonderful interview, thank you so much for sharing it!

@Living-the-Classical-Life

Жыл бұрын

So glad you enjoyed it! We were surprised by how engaging this subject of publishing could be--and of course Wolf-Dieter is such a charismatic storyteller.

What a fascinating interview.Absolutely brilliant Urtext interview😄I find the emotional detachment to scores fascinating and the way scores are laid out and in a way “engraved”

@Living-the-Classical-Life

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for your words!! We’re grateful to have you aboard ✨🙏

More than interesting! Wanted to jump into my iPad and join in with questions. This is a wonderful programme. Thank you, Zsolt Bognár, for sharing it with us.

@Living-the-Classical-Life

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much--I was surprised at fascinating this subject is, and brought to life through such a charismatic guest! -zsolt

It would be interesting to hear from other publishers like schirmer’s…. Really like your videos!,,😊

@Living-the-Classical-Life

8 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for your great feedback-yes that would be indeed fascinating!

Loved this episode, this was such an interesting conversation. I have a Sheet music group on Facebook so this is something that's interests me deeply and my favourite scores are usually the Henle ones.

@Living-the-Classical-Life

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much-so happy to hear you found this meaningful-how can we find your group? We would love to follow it-zsolt

@ornleifs

Жыл бұрын

@@Living-the-Classical-Life Yes it's called "Sheet Music - Old & New. "

Nice to see someone be brutally honest about their work, not hidden behind any words of marketing or other forms of seduction. Very interesting! I never considered any version other than Henle (with the exception of 2 books), the paper quality is just too pretty snd the commentary is very interesting as well

@Living-the-Classical-Life

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for this great feedback! It's exactly what we hope to do, give a completely open and honest look at the guests and their world. Thank you so much for watching! -zsolt

@jordidewaard2937

Жыл бұрын

@@Living-the-Classical-Life Ah I didnt even realise this is a fairly new channel lol. Keep it up!

@Living-the-Classical-Life

Жыл бұрын

@@jordidewaard2937 in fact we started in 2011 but operated off a different channel when we were working with a different production company in New York. Now since 2021 we are working with one based in Germany so with the new channel we are working to quickly bring the archive over to this one. We really hope you enjoy, and hope you keep in touch!

@jordidewaard2937

Жыл бұрын

@@Living-the-Classical-Life Ah I see I see. Looking forward to future interviews!

Great video! I wish you had asked whether an actual pianist determines page turns. I love my Henles but have been moving to Barenreiter for some years now for a very unfortunate reason: the Henle editions have started to introduce some horrifically terrible page turns - many that could have been avoided. This is most noticeable in shorter works which comprise a 2 page work with a repeat of the first section - I find them printed on opposite sides of the same piece of paper, requiring 3 PAGE TURNS for a 2 page piece. It's simply baffling! The same happens with 4 page pieces - they end up requiring 4 page turns when only 1 is needed. Henle - please hire me to sightread through your volumes before you publish them! ☺️

@Living-the-Classical-Life

Жыл бұрын

That’s amazing! Now I wish I had asked about that as well-I’ll ask him the next time I see him ✨ thanks for watching-zsolt

@da__lang

Жыл бұрын

That's a great point. I'd love to hear what he would have to say about that.

@yoonchun6945

8 ай бұрын

Yup , great question 😊

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@richterkleiber

Жыл бұрын

🙂

Visited the website to see the entire list of interviews. Disappointed that classical guitarist have no representation!

@Living-the-Classical-Life

Жыл бұрын

We are disappointed too--but we are working on it and have been in touch with a few potential guests for the future--we've been working to expand our roster but it takes time. Thanks for watching!

@reh0119

Жыл бұрын

Great! There are some amazing women players that deserve to be heard from.

@Living-the-Classical-Life

Жыл бұрын

@@reh0119 We have featured many of them in our 11 year archive--reference the old channel please--and we are working on many more.