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(More customer reviews)I am preparing the Goldberg Variations for a recording that I am making. I used the Dover edition for awhile, since I had purchased the Dover collection of Bach keyboard music (which is dirt cheap). Of course, like all Dover Bach editions, the Dover is a photocopy of an Bach Gesellschaft edition. It was cutting-edge editing based on the latest scholarly research--of the late 19th century.
The Henle is a modern Urtext edition with fingerings. There is a decent set of editorial notes in the back, and (excellent) supplied fingerings--I should say revelatory fingerings. The print is extremely clear, and on the large side. The paper is high quality and the binding is good.
If there are any down sides, they are 1. The price. Like most Henle and Baerenreiter scores, this edition rather expensive. 2. Unlike some other editions, there is no attempt to show alternate versions of variations with tricky hand-crossings. In at least one other edition (one of the Schirmer editions) the variations with monstrous hand-crossings are re-written (in extra staves) to show the lines without crossings. It would have been nice to have something like that here. As it is, I had to do some re-writing here and there.
Overall, though, an excellent purchase.
Larry D
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