Grande Valse Brillante" Op. 34 Nr.2 (transcr. for harp by I. Moretti)

Pity about the audio, evocative with the harp.

Doesn't it seem a bit "distorted"? I mean, if you didn't know the original work, would you say it was by Chopin?

My impression is that it doesn't really suit the harp, but my judgment cannot be valid for several reasons. One among many is that having heard it often only on the piano and having also played it several times, I find it difficult to imagine it being "coherent" in other contexts.

TheSimon wrote:

My impression is that it doesn't really suit the harp, but my judgment cannot be valid for several reasons. One among many is that having heard it often only on the piano and having also played it several times, I find it difficult to imagine it being "coherent" in other contexts.

I am perfectly in agreement.....

It depends Simone, for example I listened to the ricercar no. 6 from Johann Sebastian Bach's Musical Offering, but when I heard Webern's orchestration from 1934, I found it difficult to imagine it being coherent in other contexts.

It depends on the orchestrator's skill... we all discovered Jean Françaix (thanks Frank)

http://www.pianoconcerto.it/forum/index.php?/topic/2315-chopin-preludes-op-28-%E2%80%93-orchestrazioni-di-jean-francaix/

As I was saying... it depends

I'm reviewing some old topics, I'm flagging

http://www.pianoconcerto.it/forum/index.php?/topic/2314-trascrivere-per-altri-organici-la-musica-di-chopin-si-puo

http://www.pianoconcerto.it/forum/index.php?/topic/2284-perche-chopin-compose-quasi-esclusivamente-per-il-pianoforte