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Re: Violin concerto

Author: Philip Caron
Date: 2020-11-02 04:14

I'm curious as to others' reactions to the following recording, which might be said to suffer some of the same weaknesses that the clarinet transcription of the Beethoven concerto does. It's played here on saxophone, but every time I listen to it I wonder how it would work on clarinet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdUWPA_AX6o

When wearing my Omniscient Listener's hat, (the only music hat I owned for several decades,) I prefer hearing Collin's performance of the Beethoven to hearing quite a number of concerti originally written for clarinet, including some that are fairly prominent in the repertoire for the instrument. That may be because I really like Beethoven, particularly his violin concerto, and his music is still largely there in the clarinet transcription, especially when played well.

Naturally clarinetists will turn first to works written for them and expend whatever efforts necessary to present those effectively. However, some people, I've read, automatically reject the idea of transcriptions by anyone who's not the original composer, regardless of how the piece may affect average omniscient listeners. Maybe that's part of "fidelity to the score" thinking.

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