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dyim
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(5/20/01 9:47:06
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Bach Cello
Suites Eisenberg Edition
Does anyone know where I can find them? I've heard that it's out of
print, but I would really love to get a hold of #3 from it. Any
leads would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Oh, and if anyone
even remembers me, hello! I haven't had much free time lately and
had to make a tough choice between reading about playing the cello
on the Internet, and playing the cello... Maybe it wasn't such a
tough choice, but anyways it looks like I've been missing some juicy
stuff here lately, so I'll be sure to hang out here more
often!
Derrick
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dyim
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(5/23/01 1:54:48
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OK Let Me Try
the Direct Approach...
Since nobody seems to know where I can get it, does anyone HAVE the
Eisenberg edition and would they be willing to make a copy of #3 for
me? I'll pay for postage, and I promise to buy you one dozen Krispy
Kreme doughnuts (or a similar non-dougnut meal) the next time you're
in the SF Bay Area. Any takers?
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lblake
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(5/23/01 9:47:31 pm)
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Re: Eisenberg
reward
you have a KK there now?
Don't you think two dozen would be
a more appropriate reward?  I
mean, one dozen might be kinda insulting... don't want to risk
that....
yeah, get the first dozen as a variety, and the
second dozen glazed. 
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Nicholas
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(5/25/01 12:49:04 pm)
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Re: OK Let Me
Try the Direct Approach...
I looked it up in Dimitry Markevitch's 1989 catalogue, "The Solo
Cello," which has an appendix that lists many of the Bach Suite
editions. It says that the edition by Maurice Eisenberg with Michael
Masters was published in 1975 by Paganiniana. That's the company
that I understand was the brainchild of Dr. Herbert Axelrod, and I
believe it's been out of business for a few years now. However, the
good news is that the listing has the asterisk indicating that
Markevitch has this edition in his personal collection. So now we
know at least one cellist who owns it! Given that he's a very
friendly and enthusiastic person, it would probably be productive
and enjoyable for you to get in touch with him, over in Switzerland
where he's based.
Now, if you don't mind my asking - just out
of *morbid* curiosity - why, pray tell, are you so interested in
that particular edition, and only that particular suite within it?
You must have very good reasons! I just love it when a person gets
energized over finding something that's both intriguing and obscure.
In any case, let us know if you track it down! You probably know
Eisenberg's detailed book on cello playing and technique, etc. that
he wrote with Milly Stanfield and which had the input of Casals, to
whom they were both very close; it was published by The Strad back
in the 1950's.
(Of course, by now, Derrick has probably given
up on us in despair, and disappeared into the woodwork again for a
few more months, so now I'll never get an answer to *my* question!
)
-Nick
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lblake
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(5/25/01 8:59:00 pm)
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Re: OK Let Me
Try the Direct Approach...
I'll get Derrick to answer..... although, i think the answer you're
imagining might be a little more interesting than the actual
answer.....
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dyim
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(5/30/01 3:03:09
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Re: Bach Cello
Suites Eisenberg Edition
Mey Micholmas.... moops... ptooey! Sorry, had some wood in my teeth
there!
So
it seems the thing to do is to get in touch with Dimitry, see what
happens. And judging from the picture that was in his interview, it
certainly looks like he has a lot of sheet music! I know his contact
info is around here somewhere, anyone know specifically
where?
In answer to your question, I'm currently learning
Suite #3, and all of the various editions that I have (some of which
I think I went out and got after asking here, as a matter of fact)
have some strange bowings, and my teacher mentioned that she really
liked the Eisenberg edition, which she believed to be out of print
and which she doesn't seem to be able to locate her personal copy
of... So Laura's right on that, it's nothing too exciting, like
Eisenberg was actually an operative for the CIA, and he ENCRYPTED a
secret message in his transcription of Suite #3 which is of
importance to NATIONAL SECURITY (hmmm, I wonder if the NSA is going
to flag this message?).
Anyways, thanks for the
info.
Derrick
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Nicholas
Anderson
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(5/31/01 12:18:06 am)
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Re: Bach Cello
Suites Eisenberg Edition
Derrick - forget the CIA - I was hoping Eisenberg had finally found
the authentic secrets of Baroque performance practice to be still
extant among the proto-vegetarian wood-eating tribes of southwestern
Melanesia! Actually, that might not be as far-fetched as it sounds -
certainly a lot less so than many of the real "Baroque" claims that
are made. (I have a few picaresque theories of my own about it - I
may even publish them someday!
)
On a much *less* mundane note - it would in fact be
interesting to know what your teacher liked so much about
Eisenberg's edition. With something like 93 published editions in
existence (if not in print) by a recent count, one wonders what it
is about that specific one. (After all, Eisenberg was nothing if not
formidable.) Of course, it's always the one that can't be found; the
story of my life!
By the way - to say that Dimitry Markevitch
has a lot of sheet music is an understatement of epic
proportions!
Anyway, have fun with it, and don't be a
Bach-Suite driver!
-Nick
Edited by: Nicholas
Anderson at: 5/31/01 12:36:43
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