Shostakovich's symphonies in a new edition
The publishers Boosey & Hawkes and Sikorski are publishing a corrected new edition of all 15 symphonies by Dmitri Shostakovich.
Parts of the new, revised and corrected edition of all Shostakovich symphonies are now available. The first group of four publications spans the composer's life from his youthful Symphony No. 1 through Nos. 9 and 11 to his enigmatic farewell with No. 15.
No. 15 is to be completed by the 50th anniversary of the composer's death in 2025. The first four volumes of the edition, Nos. 1, 9, 11 and 15, are published as large-format study scores for optimum readability. All scores and the accompanying orchestral parts have been provided with new computer typesetting, and the orchestral parts are also compatible for performance with the scores in "The New Collected Works of Dmitri Shostakovich".
As the British music journalist Norman Lebrecht explains in his magazine Slipped Disk, the publishers do not specify how serious the errors were in earlier scores from the Soviet and post-Soviet era.
