This is undoubtedly my favorite violin concerto. Some years ago, I transcribed the work into a small leather bound book that could fit in a pocket and I carry it with me from time to time, mostly to impress the girls.... girls like musicians, lol. Last year, at my wedding I played this work for the wedding party. I had to transcribe for a string quartet and that was a challenge having to lean heavily of the viola and cello. But we made it work and checked one off my bucket list of finally playing this with an audience.
You are a magnificent transcriber and this arrangement of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto for solo piano is genius. I imagine this would be how Liszt would have transcribed the concerto and you have incarnated *THE* perfect piano transcription of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto. Certainly Liszt approved. Would you be open to connect? I would love to learn more of your work in producing such excellent piano transcriptions! My many applauds and admiration to you!
Well, in hindsight, some passages are incredibly unpianistic. Many thanks for your compliment anyways. I am a bit unsure whether some passages are possible to play at the indicated speed, but without the small notes it should be possible. So far, I have slowed down in terms of creating transcriptions, because I am after all only an amateur transcriber (and life got in the way a bit), but if I upload again, it would be a transcription on the Frank Symphony in D Minor that I am working on.
@@cziffra-eg9st Hello again! Returning to your comment after going back to listen to your transcription many times since our last correspondence! Your transcriptive work is in absolutely no way amateur. I have studied many transcriptions (especially those of Liszt) and feel I have developed an understanding of what constitutes a truly great transcription holding to that of a Liszt standard, and my goodness yours is one of those. Seriously. I can’t express how I admire your work and how cool it is to know that someone with your very specific talent exists in this world. It’s truly an honor to be speaking with you. May I ask what has been your recent work? I know you mentioned you have been working on other transcriptions but haven’t been able to dedicate as much time to. I hope you have since been well! And final question, would you at all be open to staying in touch? I have not often come across a community so invested in the art of transcribing. I’m an undergraduate studying music and piano at the University of California San Diego and I recognized completely how much detail you have put in your transcription. I hope to one day play it! My apologies for such a long and overdue reply, but I want to thank you again for making such a needed work of art in the piano world world come true! Take good care!
@@cziffra-eg9st I was looking at just the last two minutes and playing every note written at that speed without slowing down or otherwise sounding bad is gonna require a lot of practice. Look at the first beat of 606, keeping the semiquavers/quality of sound consistent while doing those jumps bro I don’t know if it’s possible to jump two octaves like that, I suppose you would take the the second semiquaver with the left hand. And on the last page: playing the chord on the first beat of bars 629-631 is crazy and then the final run starting on 632 is gonna require some wacky fingering if you wanna play all the optional notes. I haven’t actually tried playing the music though so maybe I’m wrong about impossible, but I’m not wrong in saying that you may need some form of autism to be able to play this well.
@@cziffra-eg9st I'm going to give the third movement a shot and I'll let you know which ones are unplayable(I knew a girl who was part of a program for advanced pianists I was in in high school who could play hungarian rhapsody #2 with a reach of an octave haha, so people can adapt for sure :))
As a former violinist, I slightly disagree with the very final notes in this arrangement. Despite this, I consider this arrangement very playable and not very difficult even for the non-skillful players. Definitely a great success for such a complicated source.
thanks for your response. Do you mean the final notes in the third movement, or the final notes attached in the appendix? I only included them because many violinists did actually play that version, rather than the Tchaikovsky original.
@@cziffra-eg9st I mean the final notes in the third movement. There is some kind of orchestral pause before the last two notes so I think there should be the similar pause in the left hand before "tutti" in the last two notes. I believe it will accentuate solo part as well as the final in general.
@@wolfmonk9d I understand your concern. However I think that the violin notes alone will be too thin for the piano, so maybe I should only leave the octaves at the right hand, and remove the notes at the left hand? Anyhow, the performer should study the original thoroughly, and make distinctions between orchestra and soloist. Also, regarding the playability, I strongly recommend actually attempting the transcription. I think it is only just barely playable, especially the very quick third movement, but can be executed by a human performer nonetheless.
@@wolfmonk9d I will edit it as soon as I have the time, so hopefully in a few days. The page alignment has gone wrong in the original document, so I have to attend to that too.
