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Topic: Playing piano reductions/transcriptions of orchestral scores  (Read 5400 times)

Offline stiefel

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Playing piano reductions/transcriptions of orchestral scores
on: August 12, 2012, 07:49:00 AM
Hi everyone!

What's your advice on playing piano reductions of orchestral scores?  I'm going to accompany a choir on Mozart K47 "Veni Sancte Spiritus," but the music I have doesn't leave out a single texture or voice from the original orchestral score.  The result is a piano part that is so thickly textured that it is too difficult to play and also sounds bad.

Am I "allowed" to edit the music/leave out textures to make it more playable and pianistic?  How should I do this?

Thanks, Joe.
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