In the notes accompanying this recording, Dejan Lazic points to the transcriptions for keyboard of Bach's and Beethoven's violin concertos as inspiration for his own piano arrangement of Brahms' Violin Concerto. It is rare that something as large as a full concerto is arranged for a different instrument, but Lazic took on the challenge for two reasons: he loves the music and Brahms was a pianist who wrote as a pianist. Lazic went back to Brahms' correspondence with the violinist for whom he wrote the concerto, Joseph ...
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In the notes accompanying this recording, Dejan Lazic points to the transcriptions for keyboard of Bach's and Beethoven's violin concertos as inspiration for his own piano arrangement of Brahms' Violin Concerto. It is rare that something as large as a full concerto is arranged for a different instrument, but Lazic took on the challenge for two reasons: he loves the music and Brahms was a pianist who wrote as a pianist. Lazic went back to Brahms' correspondence with the violinist for whom he wrote the concerto, Joseph Joachim, in essence to reverse-engineer the soloist's part and rebuild it for the piano. Lazic's arrangement generally works well. There is nothing missing in terms of the melodies, harmonies, and emotion; anyone who is familiar with the Violin Concerto will immediately recognize this. Looking deeper, however, it seems like the contrapuntal nature of the piano isn't used to its full advantage often enough; in other words, there are numerous times when the left hand is just a note-for-note...
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