Jan Templiner ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>...appearance of a piano in a violin concerto.  He pointed out that
>there was no candenza by Beethoven for the Violin Concerto, but one
>for his arrangement of it for piano. He and the soloist Roland Greutter
>transcribed this cadenza for piano and timpani to a trio-cadenza for
>piano, violin and timpani.  Eschenbach ended by saying that 'this has
>the huge advantage of all notes being from Beethoven'.

A similar approach was taken in the Kremer/Harnoncourt recording.

Personally I think adding the piano is somewhat daft, given that the
original cadenza was written for it.  A bit like arranging Beethoven's
piano sonatas for piano duet (which some loon apparently once did).

I prefer the Schneiderhan approach, to transcribe the piano part (maybe
I should say reduce) for violin, leaving the timps as Beethoven wrote
'em and hang the piano.

deryk barker
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