For half a century Henle’s edition of the Beethoven sonatas – the “New Testament” of the piano repertoire – has been universally recognized as the stan-dard starting-point for any serious study of these works. Now, with the publication of the three op. 31 sonatas in revised separate editions, we are raising the yardstick another notch: no less a musician than the pianist and conductor Murray Perahia hasagreed, for the first time ever, to publish his fingerings and, as co-editor, to confide his profound insights into the sources to music lovers everywhere. The musical text has been prepared in strict accordance with the rules of modern Urtext editing, and the volume is rounded off with a lengthy and informative preface and detailed notes on sources and alternative readings.
半個世紀以來,亨勒出版社的貝多芬奏鳴曲集——鋼琴曲目的「新約」——一直被公認為研究這些作品的權威入門之作。如今,隨著三首作品31號奏鳴曲修訂版的出版,我們又將這一標準提升到了一個新的高度:鋼琴家兼指揮家默里·佩拉西亞首次同意出版他的指法,並作為聯合編輯,將他對樂譜來源的深刻見解分享給世界各地的音樂愛好者。樂譜文本的編排嚴格遵循現代原始文本編輯規範,本書還附有篇幅較長、內容豐富的序言以及關於樂譜來源和不同讀法的詳細註釋。