Ambitious folk from Barack Obama on down have claimed the mantle of audacity in recent years, and so it is with Swiss clarinetist Reto Bieri, who writes of his "audacity" in transcribing Schubert's violin-and-piano sonatas for clarinet and piano. The project is indeed a bit audacious; it's not something that would have been beyond the pale in 1816, when these sonatas were written, but in his transcriptions and performances Bieri treads into the territory of making something fundamentally new of these pieces. The best ...
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Ambitious folk from Barack Obama on down have claimed the mantle of audacity in recent years, and so it is with Swiss clarinetist Reto Bieri, who writes of his "audacity" in transcribing Schubert's violin-and-piano sonatas for clarinet and piano. The project is indeed a bit audacious; it's not something that would have been beyond the pale in 1816, when these sonatas were written, but in his transcriptions and performances Bieri treads into the territory of making something fundamentally new of these pieces. The best results are obtained when performers (or politicians) have the talent to deliver on audacious plans, and that's what happens here. Schubert's three "pianoforte sonatas with violin accompaniment," as they were originally styled, aren't among his most popular pieces, and that name suggests a rather old-fashioned set of pieces with a dominant piano part ornamented by simple violin lines. Bieri undercuts this expectation in two ways. First and in general, he pushes Schubert not back toward the...
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