Does anyone know if there is music for solo mandolin of the concertos?
thanks.
Does anyone know if there is music for solo mandolin of the concertos?
thanks.
I am not sure what exactly you are looking for. None of the concertos were originally scored for one instrument. You can access all of them in various arrangements from IMSLP.org All six are linked on this page under B. Here is the original solo instruments for each concerto:
I attended Carlo Aonzo's mandolin workshop many years ago in New York City and we played the all mandolin version of #3 and I was played in the mandola section. Each string section had three parts that were fugal, similar but coming in at different times. Really fun!
I am sure that IMSLP has some arrangements of each transposed for strings but I can't see how one mandolin can play all the instruments at once. I am assuming you don't mean that.
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Ken Eidson, who worked with Jethro Burns, did a solo mandolin "arrangement" of #2, that's published in sheet music form in Mando 2000 (https://books.google.com/books/about...d=bCyVngEACAAJ)
Don Stiernberg plays it on the cd version that comes with the book. In the 70s & 80s Eidson and Stiernberg were chicagoland-dudes. Stiernberg I think is still there, but that Mando 2000 is the last mention of Eidson I recall seeing.
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not mandolin, but 4 guitars
I realize that this does not address the OP's needs, but vonbiber reminds me that the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet has recorded Brandenburgs #3 and #6. If interested, you can find these recordings on youtube, itunes, Spotify.
#3 on mandolin, mandola, guitar and bass
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