Author: clarinetist04
Date: 2011-06-30 16:20
Thanks for the background, Ed. Now that you say that I recall hearing that somewhere (probably right here on this board).
Thank you for the feedback. My inclination is to do this with wind ensemble as opposed to orchestra but the piece has some parts where the string "luster" is somewhat critical but that's the fun in being an arranger - getting creative to figure out how to represent the original intentions of the composer with a different medium.
The most famous recording if this is David Oistrakh as the soloist playing with, I believe, the USSR State Symphony (recorded in 1949, written in 1948). He plays it at a blistering pace, a bit faster than Kabalevsky even calls for but he can do it really effectively without losing too much musicality in my opinion.
I'm not worried about the technical side as a soloist. A, Bb, C, F# (tongue-in-cheek) whatever it turns out to be isn't that big of a deal to me. But some of the violin effects, such as harmonics, would be a lot harder to make work in some keys than others.
Your advice is greatly appreciated. I don't perform a lot of transcriptions in my own ensemble but I don't think, looking at the score, that moving the ensemble from the concert keys of C to Bb would be detrimental especially if going to wind ensemble. Or I could invest in a C clarinet....
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