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Bazzini - The Round of The Goblins

Author: Big Ben
Date: 2002-09-01 07:47

Hi Everyone,
Does anyone know who arranged the Round of the Goblins by Bazzini as found on the Robert Spring CD "Dragon's Tongue"... and where I might be able to obtain a copy from?

Ben

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RE: Bazzini - The Round of The Goblins

Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2002-09-01 13:11

Ask Bob: robert.spring@asu.edu

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RE: Bazzini - The Round of The Goblins

Author: Ken Shaw
Date: 2002-09-04 19:29

The Bazzini Round of the Goblins (usually known as La Ronde des Lutins) is originally for violin and is a calling card for virtuosos. If you can play it, you can play anything.

It's infamously difficult, full of things you can't do on clarinet: double stops, harmonics, playing an extremely high passage successively on each of the four strings, simultaneous bowing and left-hand pizzicato, and on and on.

Robert Spring manages to bring off what can be done on clarinet, but I'm not sure anyone else could.

Heifetz's recordings are famous. It was the final eye-popper in his famous Carnegie Hall debut recital (at age 16), at which a well-known violinist remarked "It's awfully hot in here," to which a pianist replied "Only for violinists, Misha."

Best regards.

Ken Shaw

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