Author: Philip Caron
Date: 2020-11-03 21:50
Glass's original violin concerto should be heard, including, naturally, the remaining two movements. (Gidon Kremer's recording is a good one.) In the first movement the violin scoring vividly intensify the drama in the middle section, and it's compelling.
In a homophonic reduction the soloist must "indicate" such intensification by other means. That would seem a disadvantage, but then again, you might say that music is fundamentally made of indications. Dickson uses several means to intensify those points, quite subtly too, but they catch the ear.
I also admire the saxophone's sonority in this transcription - mournful but intense, indicative of unsatisfied need. It's more personal, perhaps, than the violin, which seems on a higher plane. I like both versions.
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