Liszt Sonata in b minor (for solo violin )

[g_s_223]

Well, in the Jan 2006 edition of The Strad, a magazine for stringed instrument players, I read the following:

New York composer Noam Sivan has transcribed Liszt's Piano Sonata for solo violin. The half-hour-long, single-movement work is one of the crowning glories of the Romantic repertory and the transcription will present a major technical and musical challenge to any violinist.
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US publisher Carl Fischer will be publishing it later this year.

Well, I suppose if we have the Bach-Busoni and Bach-Brahms Chaconne, then traffic the other way is not out of the question. Sounds a bit of a handful though...

[kreso]

Who knows, maybe one day violinists will make a transcription off some of the Chopine studies? 

[stevie]

very interesting!

of course each instrument has qualities that can express certain sounds and things that the other cannot, imagine those beautiful liszt melodies with vibrato.

the major problem though may be the range, the cello may have been a better choice, because when i think of the liszt sonata i think of thundering bass.

[pita bread]

Who knows, maybe one day violinists will make a transcription off some of the Chopine studies? 

They already have the Paganini Caprices, heh.