Cyrillic (probably Russian) interpretation help of one footnote

• Feb 16, 2025 - 20:39

Hi,

maybe this is not the right forum, but perhaps someone can help?

A friend would like to know the meaning of the footnote on PDF page 29 of https://imslp.eu/files/imglnks/euimg/4/42/IMSLP309572-PMLP08817-Op.45_S… (especially about that D in the notes there). The quality of the scan is atrocious, though, and no better scan has these footnotes, and nobody seems to have transliterated them yet.

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My Cyrillic is more than rusty, and my Russian nōnexistent, but so far I’ve got variations of:

в авторском переложения "симфонических танцев" для 2-х фортепиано последняя шестнаддатая второй четвер-ти 'ре' (фл., гоб. (Oboe), кл. (кларинета), скрипки и альты (Viola)) заменена на ми-бемоль.

A Bulgarian friend thought the transcription was at least close, but doesn’t know enough musician terms to interpret it.

Google Translate leaves us still unclear about this (is the D replaced by the E♭ (and the latter played), or does it replace it (and the D is played), etc.) so anyone who could shine a light on this would be welcome.

What I think it means is: “in the version for 2 pianoforte, it has an E♭, but in the version for orchestra it’s (deliberately?) replaced with a D, so play that D”

The friend is also interested in whether the fingerings on page 30 are Rachmaninoff’s original or added by the editor. https://imslp.eu/files/imglnks/euimg/a/a9/IMSLP268944-PMLP08817-7226.pdf is probably a better ressource for this as it contains a long foreword in Cyrillic.

Thanks in advance!


Comments

In reply to by kovalev_ev_

Ah, so the other way round!

Hmm. According to Wikipedia, he wrote the two-piano arrangement at the same time as he wrote the orchestral version, do the extra dissonance from the D in the orchestral version is probably intended.

Thank you, I’ll tell the person who had the question.

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