29410 Brahms/arr. Lazic - Piano Concerto no.3 after Violin Concerto Dejan Lazic & Robert Spano

Full video on http://www.channelclassics.com/dejanbrahms.html
Pianist Dejan Lazić was born into a musical family in Zagreb, Croatia, and grew up in Salzburg, Austria, where he studied at the Mozarteum. He is quickly establishing a reputation worldwide as a brilliant pianist and a gifted musician full of ideas and able to project them persuasively (Gramophone).

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[channelclassics]

The Atlanta public was very positive about this venture and were certainly showing it with a good deal of applause! (even after the first movement) You will not be disappointed. If only you had a better sounding hall. No matter I think it worked out with the recording

[lovingee1]

Dejan, beautiful pianist indeed. This music is GORGEOUS! Maestro Robert, come out from behind the piano so I can see you.

Barbara Todres/NYC

[OrangeSodaKing]

@driemaaldrommels Overall I agree with you, but I think it's okay to arrange things, at the very least, out of personal interest.

[Jimsinc]

Brahms was a pianist and would have thought of this piece in pianistic terms and it was Joachim who turned it into a violin concerto for him and I think it is fascinating to hear it as Brahms would have heard it in his head.

Jasper

[Timmmmartin]

Dejan - you're a genius!

What next - Brahms Piano Concerto No4 in A minor Op102?

Bring it on!!!

[nevskixx]

This was a very interesting project and obviously a labour of love. Well done!

[MrKipW]

@driemaaldrommels

I'm comfortable with giving posterity the chance to judge whether Lazic was great enough to touch Brahms. I don't expect this particular piece will end up as a standard.

We seem to agree that transcription is an option, just not on who can do it. Still, there's a whole spectrum of transcribers, from Liszt on down, and it includes one-hit wonders like Schulz-Evler, whose "Blue Danube" version is still enthusiastically performed and listened to.

[driemaaldrommels]

@MrKipW

I respect your opinion, however...I don't want to put someone like Brahms and someone like Lazic in the same catagorie! Brahms was a master of composition and Lazic is more pianist (in my opinion not a very good one, but that is now irrelivant) than composer. I think Brahms knew very well that this piece fitted best for a violin.

[MrKipW]

@driemaaldrommels

Should Brahms not have transcribed Schumann, Weber, Bach, and others? (I haven't heard this arrangement yet, apart from the above samples.) It would appear he was not against it on principle.

[otterhouse]

Heee Jared, goeie stunt! Ik ben benieuwd of het verkoopt. Ga in ieder geval de CD kopen. Groetjes van Rolf