Rachmaninov, Rachmaninoff :Works for Violin

August 11, 2007 at 11:33 PM · Does anyone have any knowledge or information on transcriptions of Rachmaninov's preludes for violin or any other of his works. I know that one such transcription of his prelude B flat Major exists, and has been written for harps and violins. Starting at 3:50 of this video about Oistrakh. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVkTl4kC9Hw

Any knowledge would be greatly appreciated

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Scott 68

August 12, 2007 at 05:42 PM · not sure but i do want to say this

id love to see more piano music transcribed for violin especially chopin and rachmaninoff, i think some scriabin has been done would love to see more, or how about debussys images? have you ever heard these pieces? open your mind to new music and give it a chance!

hey if ysaye transcribed a chopin ballade for violin and piano i think a rachmaninoff sonata could be done, or how about rachmaninoff's variations on a theme of chopin, some of the best music i ever heard, was listening to mozart piano concerto 23 today and was learning some melodies by ear and improvising to themes and thinking someone should write a violin part for that also

there are 2 cds full of this stuff so far that im in love with one was done by rachel barton playing liszt music on violin and for that she will always be a hero of mine the other is a recording called "chopin on violin" - yes of course milstein, ysaye, and saint saens did alot of these transcriptions but id like to see people pick up where they left off

if i were a great violinist id focus alot of my time into writing out and performing these transcriptions and also performing and recording unplayed romantic works i discussed in the suaret thread, you know like when you record the mendelssohn concerto for example pair it with an unrecorded beroit concerto - or record the strauss sonata and pair it with rachmaninoff sonata 2, mix it in

if i was a world class soloist i would be doing this, if at all possible - and 100 years later people will probably still be playing them

on a different note i think the music of reger should be as commonly played as bach or mozart, im a repretoire junky starting to get really really bored hearing the same works played over and over, if i was a performer id try to play music that is just as good but less common (richter claimed to do this in the documentary richter the enigma), reger is a perfect example

i hope there are some great soloists out there listening

Raphael Klayman

August 12, 2007 at 06:31 PM · I've transcribed one of Scriabin's pieces, and recently saw that someone else had done the same one - the etude in c#. (I've renamed it it my version). Re Rachmaninov arrangements, there's the Vocalise, which had its own thread a little while back. And Kreisler arranged some melodies from the 2nd piano concerto into a short piece. Rosand plays it on his Mill College recital DVD.

Kevin Cheung

August 12, 2007 at 11:54 PM · I have played my own transcriptions of various things though not of Chopin or Rach. I think any violinist who wants to play any non-violin piece bad enough will probably transcribe it. However, whether or not these transcriptions get published is quite another thing.

Anne Horvath

August 12, 2007 at 07:52 PM · There is a Kreisler arrangement of the 18th Variation from "Rapsodie on a Theme of Paganini". It is published by Carl Fischer. Nice piece!

C. F. Nieweg

August 13, 2007 at 12:49 AM · emusicquest "Music-in-Print" http://www.emusicquest.com/pricing.htm

lists 97 works for strings.

Most are arrangements for Violin and Piano.

These are the preludes listed:

Rachmaninoff, Sergey Vassilievich ( 1873 - 1943 )

Edition: Prelude, Op. 3, No. 2 for Violin and Piano, [arr.]

Arranger / Editor: Fiévet

Instrumentation: vln, pno

Publisher: Hamelle et cie.

Edition: Prelude, Op. 23, No. 4, orig for pno

Arranger / Editor: Erdenko