[78-L] Pictures & Bach...

[Joe Scott]

Imo Mussorgsky's version didn't need to be transcribed to anything, it's the best. The harmony was very adventurous and individualistic, even odd (Rachmaninov and Scriabin were in diapers at the time) and someone else's idea of harmony too, ladled on top of all that, can get your attention but compared to the original doesn't really work, the original is enough. (Ravel didn't even get all the melody notes right.)
Joseph Scott
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From: DAVID BURNHAM
Sent: 11/01/13 06:14 PM
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Subject: Re: [78-L] Pictures & Bach...

Stokowski's is very good, although as he is prone to do there are too many cuts, of course even the Ravel is not complete - I don't think Stokowski's would have sounded as it does if the Ravel wasn't there because it seems to try to do the opposite from what Ravel did with every theme, compared to, say the Ashkenazy which sounds like he never heard the Ravel, and I think his version is the Mussorgsky score complete. Another interesting transcription available,as far as I know, only on 78s is Lucien Caillet's, (unless someone has made a CD of it). Another approach is that of Tomita which I think can still be called a transcription and I've also heard it as an organ solo. db >________________________________ > From: Ted Kneebone <tkneebone1 at abe.midco.net> >To: 78-l <78-l at klickitat.78online.com> >Sent: Friday, November 1, 2013 5:15:08 PM >Subject: [78-L] Pictures & Bach... > > >My favorite orchestral transcription of the >"Pictures at an exhibition" is the one by >Stokowski. That is surely an exciting version. > Speaking of the Bach Toccata & Fugue..., >I have saved a version done by two guys who >walk on a keyboard. It is incomplete but the >themes are all there. I think Bach would have >enjoyed their performance. > >Ted Kneebone >1528 S. Grant Street >Aberdeen, SD 57401 >Old Time Radio catalog... >http://abe.midco.net/tkneebone3 > >_______________________________________________ >78-L mailing list >78-L at klickitat.78online.com >http://klickitat.78online.com/mailman/listinfo/78-l > > > _______________________________________________ 78-L mailing list 78-L at klickitat.78online.com http://klickitat.78online.com/mailman/listinfo/78-l