[davevillajr]

I have a question for the group.

I have lost (or loaned to a fellow saxist who never returned them) my original green cover/"yellow" page copies of the Karg Elert 25 Caprices books.

Is this ( https://www.amazon.com/Twenty-five-Caprices-Atonal-Sonata-Saxophone/dp/B001C10Z1K ) the same book? The caprices don't look the way I remember.

Still Book I and Book II?

I really wish things would just stay the same! :crybaby: hahahaha

Thanks in advance.

 

[Currawong]

This edition contains all 25 caprices plus an Atonal Sonata, as the cover says, 48 pages in all, including title page, etc. I am not familiar with the two-volume edition you describe.

 

[Reet McVouty]

I have a question for the group.

I have lost (or loaned to a fellow saxist who never returned them) my original green cover/"yellow" page copies of the Karg Elert 25 Caprices books.

Is this ( https://www.amazon.com/Twenty-five-Caprices-Atonal-Sonata-Saxophone/dp/B001C10Z1K ) the same book? The caprices don't look the way I remember.

Still Book I and Book II?

I really wish things would just stay the same! :crybaby: hahahaha

Thanks in advance.

Yeah, they do that all the time. They change the covers and then people buy them again thinking it's a new book or an addition to the original. They did the same with the H. Klose' book. My original had an orange cover, and I gave it to my son. Rather than get it back from him later, I just decided to by a new one for myself. Well, they changed the cover so when I bought it I wasn't sure if it was the same until I received it.

 

[davevillajr]

My rusty memory suggests that the caprices are primarily modal(?), the edition I had contained lots of text in English, German and French, before the music started, I think.

I found the cover I'm used to seeing, it's attached.

I want to get the "right" one. :mrgreen:

 

[Currawong]

This may be one current version (PDF) of the edition you have in mind:

https://en.schott-music.com/shop/25-capricen-und-sonate-noq47386.html.

This may be another (hard copy):

https://www.adlibmusic.com.au/collections/woodwind-sheet-music/products/25-caprices-and-sonata-op-153-vol-1-for-saxophone-solo-sigfrid-karg-elert-saxophone-zimmermann-softcover

They both come in two books.

 

[davevillajr]

yeah, Currawong! those are the ones I remember!

If the Amazon one is the same etudes, I'm in business. One book instead of two saves a bit of dosh, don'tcha know.