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Influences and the Process of Arrangement: From Historical Backgrounds to Composing of an Original Cadenza My source of inspiration was a joint one: the piano versions of the Violin Concertos of Bach and Beethoven, which were made by the composers themselves. I started working on this project in early 2003 and completed it in 2008. The violin was always a favourite love, and I continue to hold violinists in high esteem, realising just how wonderful their literature is. Thus far, I have been tremendously lucky to have had many an opportunity to perform with some wonderful colleagues. And it is with a degree of pride that I present – after Bach and Beethoven – the third “great B” in the present arrangement. Subjectivity plays a role of course, and I have always found this particular concerto, along with Beethoven's 4th Piano Concerto, to be amongst the best instrumental concertos ever written. Naturally, I felt the challenge to arrange the Brahms early on. I was intrigued by the idea of rendering it in an idiomatic version for piano and orchestra. The ultimate aim was clear: I wanted to perform it myself!
The desire to arrange a violin concerto as a piano concerto just because one envisages donning the garb of the soloist, is not a good enough motive to take on this challenge. But I also do not feel there is any other romantic violin concerto that would survive the transformation. At a musicological level, the correspondence between Brahms and his dedicatee Joseph Joachim played a major role for me. After numerous changes, much good advice, and actual corrections by Joachim it remains quite clear that Brahms had always composed as a pianist (at the piano) and therefore felt this music as a pianist, if also as a symphonic composer (originally, Brahms wrote the Violin Concerto in four movements, which was typical for a symphony). It is quite obvious that the Violin Concerto had its roots in both friendship and practicality: his aim was to write a concerto for Joachim, from which we can infer the term concerto took on a greater significance than the violin itself. But we are skating on thin ice here, what I mean to say is that it is quite justified to speculate about what would have happened if Joachim had been a cellist or a clarinettist, or even… a pianist!
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Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 77 (Arr. for Piano and Orchestra by Dejan Lazić) (Johannes Brahms)
Johannes Brahms, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Dejan Lazic, Arranger, Soloist, MainArtist - Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Robert Spano, Conductor, MainArtist
2010 Channel Classics Records 2010 Channel Classics Records
Johannes Brahms, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Dejan Lazic, Arranger, Soloist, MainArtist - Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Robert Spano, Conductor, MainArtist
2010 Channel Classics Records 2010 Channel Classics Records
Johannes Brahms, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Dejan Lazic, Arranger, Soloist, MainArtist - Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Robert Spano, Conductor, MainArtist
2010 Channel Classics Records 2010 Channel Classics Records
Johannes Brahms, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Dejan Lazic, Soloist, MainArtist
2010 Channel Classics Records 2010 Channel Classics Records
2 Rhapsodies, op. 79 (Johannes Brahms)
Johannes Brahms, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Dejan Lazic, Soloist, MainArtist
2010 Channel Classics Records 2010 Channel Classics Records
Johannes Brahms, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Dejan Lazic, Soloist, MainArtist
2010 Channel Classics Records 2010 Channel Classics Records
Johannes Brahms, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Dejan Lazic, Soloist, MainArtist
2010 Channel Classics Records 2010 Channel Classics Records
Album review
Influences and the Process of Arrangement: From Historical Backgrounds to Composing of an Original Cadenza My source of inspiration was a joint one: the piano versions of the Violin Concertos of Bach and Beethoven, which were made by the composers themselves. I started working on this project in early 2003 and completed it in 2008. The violin was always a favourite love, and I continue to hold violinists in high esteem, realising just how wonderful their literature is. Thus far, I have been tremendously lucky to have had many an opportunity to perform with some wonderful colleagues. And it is with a degree of pride that I present – after Bach and Beethoven – the third “great B” in the present arrangement. Subjectivity plays a role of course, and I have always found this particular concerto, along with Beethoven's 4th Piano Concerto, to be amongst the best instrumental concertos ever written. Naturally, I felt the challenge to arrange the Brahms early on. I was intrigued by the idea of rendering it in an idiomatic version for piano and orchestra. The ultimate aim was clear: I wanted to perform it myself!
The desire to arrange a violin concerto as a piano concerto just because one envisages donning the garb of the soloist, is not a good enough motive to take on this challenge. But I also do not feel there is any other romantic violin concerto that would survive the transformation. At a musicological level, the correspondence between Brahms and his dedicatee Joseph Joachim played a major role for me. After numerous changes, much good advice, and actual corrections by Joachim it remains quite clear that Brahms had always composed as a pianist (at the piano) and therefore felt this music as a pianist, if also as a symphonic composer (originally, Brahms wrote the Violin Concerto in four movements, which was typical for a symphony). It is quite obvious that the Violin Concerto had its roots in both friendship and practicality: his aim was to write a concerto for Joachim, from which we can infer the term concerto took on a greater significance than the violin itself. But we are skating on thin ice here, what I mean to say is that it is quite justified to speculate about what would have happened if Joachim had been a cellist or a clarinettist, or even… a pianist!
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 7 track(s)
- Total length: 01:06:05
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Dejan Lazić Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Robert Spano
- Composer: Johannes Brahms
- Label: Channel Classics
- Genre: Classical
2010 Channel Classics Records 2010 Channel Classics Records
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