Rochberg: Caprice Variations (arranged for guitar)

George Rochberg (Artist), Eliot Fisk (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 15, 1994)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Music Masters
• ASIN: B000000FS3
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #524,593 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Variation 1: Allegro Energico

2. Variation 50: Fantasy

3. Variation 41: Allegro Molto (After Webern Passacaglia Op. 1)

4. Variation 35: Allegro Molto; Fantastico

5. Variation 5: Poco Agitato Ma Con Molto Rubato

6. Variation 20: Quasi Cadenza; Andante Con Molto Espressivo

7. Variation 7: Presto (After Beethoven Op. 74, Scherzo)

8. Variation 10: Vivace (After Brahms Op. 35, Bk. I, No. 3)

9. Variation 16: Andante Amoroso

10. Variation 2: Presto

11. Variation 3: Allegro Molto E Con Fuoco

12. Variation 13: Feroce Energico (After Brahms Op. 35, Bk. II, No. 10)

13. Variation 39: Elegiac; Fantastico

14. Variation 37: Barcarolle; Legatissimo E Dolcissimo

15. Variation 33: Moderato; Con Umore

16. Variation 18: Allegro Fantastico

17. Variation 4: Poco Allegro Ma Quas Recitando

18. Variation 14: Alla Guitarra; Allegretto Con Molto Rubato

19. Variation 6: Poco Allegretto Ma Con Rubato

20. Variation 36: Largo: Sereno

See all 51 tracks on this disc

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3.0 out of 5 stars Classic Eliot..., February 11, 2008

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This review is from: Rochberg: Caprice Variations (arranged for guitar) (Audio CD)

Eliot Fisk might be the most clinically insane member of the classical guitar community. The task of arranging Rochberg's titanic set of 50 variations for solo violin on Paganini's 24th caprice for solo guitar might be the craziest thing anyone has done for the instrument. The transcription the Eliot has made for this piece is an amazing addition to the repertoire (that statement being made with the provision that anyone besides Fisk can play this piece). Thanks to Fisk, the guitar repertoire now has a work of comparable scale and affect of Rzewski's monumental solo piano piece "The People United Will Never Be Defeated." However, I don't understand why Fisk decided to record the 50 variations out of order. This causes a ***HUGE*** determent to the piece. I personally cannot sit through the entire piece in the order that it has been recorded on this recording. There is a clear path of moving away from tonal constructs as the piece progresses and the order that it is recorded in here makes little to no sense at all. So what is the solution? Rip the CD to your computer and set up a playlist with the pieces in order. Granted, some of the track cuts are a little strange, but it is much better than sitting through a piece that is played in such an illogical order. The thing that really confuses me is that Eliot Fisk's publication of the score of his arrangement is in the correct order... I hope he fired his producer after this disc was made.