{"id":10030,"date":"2018-07-15T19:16:21","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T00:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=10030"},"modified":"2018-07-27T08:55:54","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T13:55:54","slug":"searching-foor-chopins-prelude-in-e-minor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/10030","title":{"rendered":"Searching For Chopin’s Prelude in E Minor"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Thing about classical music is there is so much of it out there on LPs that never seems to have been migrated to digital and I can’t find it on either Apple or Amazon music. This is particularly true of orchestral transcriptions of piano music. Since that’s a…let’s call it a “cover” like the rock kids do…of some original piece that the composer never intended to be orchestrated, there is no “standard” version of it and everyone does it a little differently.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Case in point: There’s a really evocative Chopin piece…his Prelude in E Minor, that I first heard on an album of “covers” of classical film music. This one was a cover of music played in Five Easy Pieces. So…a cover of a cover. I fell in love with it instantly, but then I went to get a copy of the original version and discovered it’s a solo piano piece, and the version I heard was so breathtaking, with the piano and string orchestra basically doing a call and response to each other, I just could not get into the original solo piano version. I still can’t. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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But the version I heard on that LP<\/a>, is the only version like it. I just looked around online for it and I can’t find it in any other form but the LP. And the other orchestral versions of it I just reviewed are, IMO horribly over melodramatic. That piece is a very emotionally strong piece, it dives deep into a solitary place inside of you, but it needs its original simplicity to be that. Transcribing it for orchestra is a delicate maneuver. Too many heavy hands have taken it on and ruined it. Though I’ll allow that Stokowski’s full orchestra transcription<\/a> is very good for a dramatic interpretation. He’s like…the exception to everything in classical music. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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So…just now I played the version I have on LP, it is still in very good shape, and I’ve been meaning to get updated LP to digital software because I have a Shostakovich symphony I’ve also been meaning to transfer over…so…<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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