Shostakovich: The Limpid Stream. Op. 39 - Piano score

This publication is based on the 1997 edition, which has been correlated with the score published in Vols. 64a and 64b of New Collected Works.
 
As we know, in The Limpid Stream, Shostakovich included several items from the ballet The Bolt. During preparation of the performance, many changes were made to the score: rearrangements, repetitions and xclusions of certain items, their expansion or abridgment, and finally the inclusion of new items. When the ballet was transferred to the stage of the Bolshoi Theatre, the libretto was radically revised (for more about this see the article in this volume) and new changes were made to the score, to which, in particular, additional items were added written by Shostakovich especially for the Moscow performance.

  This publication features the piano arrangements of several items and fragments that are absent in the 1997 edition. All of these rearrangements were done by musical editor of the volume Viktor Ekimovsky. The repetitions of small fragments of the score revealed are designated by reprise signs in this publication. In several of the pieces, the score was written without key signatures or accidentals; the key signatures are shown in the piano arrangement. These differences are not stipulated in the comments. Nor is a note made of the insignificant differences between this publication and the 1997 piano score with respect to the dynamic nuances (for example, their distribution with respect to the bar beats). Slips of the pen and inaccuracies in the previous publication are removed without stipulation.