2 posts tagged “strings”
Enchanted by Camille Saint-Saëns's work for solo piano, "Carillon", I recently decided to have a go at arranging the work for different instrumentations, resulting in both an orchestral arrangement and an arrangement for string quintet (2vn, va, vc, cb). In the end I think each, these as well as the piano original, has a certain charm of its own, though perhaps I'm biased: what do you think?
Postscript: I've also arranged his "Toccata" piano solo for strings.
Considering Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber's, Rosenkranz Sonaten, and having, as he, "faith in the strings" (i.e., his "fides in fidibus" remark which I've used as a subject here), I wanted to work a bit with them and, studying him, work with his style as well. That toying around resulted in three pieces, or alternatively, one throw-away piece and two fragments. For any interested, "Duet for Violin and 'Cello in Eb minor" is the finished study, and the fragments are the duet in G# minor and the piece for solo violin. I may pick up the fragments for further development at some point, the other duet in particular.
