Who rewrote Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto?

[Davydov]

The editors of a new critical edition of Tchaikovsky's works need your help!

See: http://www.tchaikovsky-research.net/en/ ... s0005.html

[Davydov]

Just been told this information is needed by the end of July, to meet publication deadlines. Please help or spread the word if you can. Thanks!

[HonkyTonk]

I can't help with what the editors of the forthcoming edition require, but it's interesting that Sapelnikoff, who played the work with Tchaikovsky conducting, recorded the work in the 1920s and performed it in the form that is usually played. This doesn't necessarily prove, of course, that he used this version in his performances with Tchaikovsky or that the composer sanctioned the changes; it might just mean that, later in his career, he adopted the version in which the work had become generally known.