isokani wrote:I have the Gonzalez edition -- but I think there's already so much information in each bar, that adding fingerings (that work for one person) is frankly too much! It's a pity Albeniz didn't add any (as far as I know) -- but I think he was far too ill to play the pieces when he was writing them. Gonzalez's fingerings are from many pianists -- it would have been good to know which pianists suggested which ... I'd love to see a facsimile of the ms ... I saw one advertised, for about 200 euros!
Imho opinon to find an appropriate fingering is
not the biggest difficulty when playing Iberia!
BTW Rubinstein took the liberty to "thin out" the score a little - claiming that this was exactly what the composer did himself (according to Rubinstein this was testified by his widow).
You may generally follow Debussy's advice in the forword to his Etudes and find all your fingerings yourself (and a pianist indeed should be able to do that). But in my experience it is quite fruitful to play through a couple of editions, edited and fingered by the best pianists of their time ---- and then to go back to an unfingered Urtext edition!!
Just one example for a really "new" and imho quite interesting fingering is that by Stefan Askenase for the left hand in Chopin's Nocturne op. 27 No. 1 (see the respective posting by a certain "alfor"). Askenase, one of the most sensitive and poetic Chopin players did proove by his recording that such a fingering does
not disturb the perfect legato line.
