by Peter Feher
Not enough repertoire — that’s the basic challenge for anyone looking to program a violin and guitar recital. Transcriptions can work, but the players are faced with a competing pair of approaches: to emulate the original instrumentation, or to forge an entirely new sound and interpretation. Guitarist Jason Vieaux and violinist Adam Barnett-Hart experimented with those approaches on Tuesday night, September 24 in their season-opening recital for the Tuesday Musical series. The results were uniformly pleasing, though some transcriptions felt more substantial than others. [Read more…]