Brahms: Concerto for Viola Op. 120 No. 1 (3/4) (arr. Berio)
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
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Arrangement of Brahms Sonata Op. 120 No. 1 in F minor by Luciano Berio
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Amihai Grosz, viola
Guy Braunstein, conductor
Symphoniker Hamburg
Live performance from 16. February 2017
Hamburg, Germany
© Amihai Grosz
The first note brought a smile to my face; my facial expressions exclaimed an "ahhhh"
Beautiful viola! Very nice deep, full-bodied and soft sound.
So beautiful...
💕 Dwight Yoakom!
What a find! I'm sure only violists know about this transcription (more or less of a transcription from the original clarinet sonata), and god knows, they need the repertoire. A lovely performance, maybe lacking in the amazing sound of the original clarinet/piano version, but well worth hearing. One knows that Brahms was a great contrapuntalist, devoted student of Bach's genius. Maybe it's not surprising to find that, like Bach, his music isn't specific-instrument bound, nor absolutely dependent on "authentic" arrangements. Does anyone know why someone like Luciano Berio undertook this?
Brahms wrote the original sonata for clarinet and the transcription for viola, the latter for his friend Joachim, who was a violist as well as a violinist. So the viola part has existed nearly as long as the clarinet part. Berio was commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic to orchestrate the sonata in 1986 -- he was active as an arranger as well as being a composer, and had made orchestrations of similar chamber works previously (notably one of Boccherini's string quintets). Why this particular commission? Anyone's guess, really. But the solo parts are relatively untouched, so it can be either a clarinet or a viola concerto. It would be lovely to see an arrangement that took the solo part and made it into a double concerto for clarinet and viola, after the model of Bruch's concerto 🙂