Kunneke Piano concerto

[Wheesht]

I was in touch with publisher Edda Wrede in late August last year in connection with another composer, and she replied to my email inquiry very quickly and also said I could phone her, which I did. So contacting her should not end in a long frustrating wait as is sometimes the case...

[Gareth Vaughan]

Alan's post noting that the MS partitur is lost does not sound encouraging. If,  however, the work was ever performed it is possible the publisher may have a set of parts.  But I am not sanguine. 

[Wheesht]

Neither am I, but I have now written to them anyway – just on the off-chance.

[Gareth Vaughan]

Well done - and thank you very much.

[Alan Howe]

Indeed. Thank you.

[Wheesht]

The reply has just come in: all they have is a version for two pianos of this work in one movement. They didn't say how substantial (how long) the piece is - and no trace of a set of parts...

[eschiss1]

There's at least one book about Künneke, Schneidereit's "Eduard Künneke, der Komponist aus Dingsda" (Berlin : Henschelverlag, 1978). Does anyone have a copy, does it mention a 2nd piano concerto?
Ah, hrm, ok, more to the point, "Eduard Künneke (1885-1953) : Komponistenportrait und Werkverzeichnis" (Ries & Erler, 1995.)

(I'll see if I can't interloan that latter book. Request put in, will see if the libraries that have the book work with my local library...)

[Wheesht]

There is a copy of the 1995 book in Zurich, in the reference section and thus not available for interloan, but I could have a look at it when I'm next in Zurich.
Wrede publishers suggested in a second reply that the GEMA could be contacted, although they didn't sound very hopeful.

[Alan Howe]

So, it is as we surmised - probably only the reduction has survived. But one lives in hope...

[eschiss1]

No free interloan available of the 1995 book anyway...

[adriano]

The new cpo recording features the same work, which Koch-Schwann had produced in 1998, i.e. "Klavierkonzert Nr. 1 (1935)". That is an excellent performance, by the way!

[FBerwald]

Just a matter of Opinion but I found the Koch-Schwann recording lacking a bit performance wise. The slacking of tempo in the thrilling Piano Introduction and dynamics made me feel instantly that it could have been done a bit better [just my opinion]. On the other hand I found the rendition by Ernst August Quelle to be excellent.

[Wheesht]

I have finally had a chance to look at the 1995 Ries & Erler Werkverzeichnis, but it does not mention the whereabouts of any score, unfortunately.

[eschiss1]

Are we talking about the first concerto? I think that's rented by Birnbach ("Lochham Berlin Richard Birnbach Musikverlag, Administration: Ed. Intro Meisel") according to D-NB not by Ries & Erler? (Though admittedly if it's a werkverzeichnis of all works of the composer, not just those rented by R&E, that wouldn't matter, true...)

[Wheesht]

I was referring to the second concerto in one movement.  Regina/Wrede publishers have this only in a two-piano reduction and as such it is listed in the composer portrait and list of works published by Ries & Erler.