{"id":453405,"date":"2026-10-01T17:56:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T17:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/453405\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T17:56:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T17:56:14","slug":"fort-worth-symphony-premieres-a-new-arrangement-of-brahms-concerto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/453405\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth Symphony Premieres a New Arrangement of Brahms Concerto"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Saturday\u2019s (9\/26) Dallas Morning News<\/a>, Scott Cantrell writes, \u201cFamiliar composers Joseph Haydn and Johannes Brahms, born almost exactly a century apart, were paired in the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra\u2019s Friday night concert. But one of the pieces was presented in a world premiere arrangement\u2026. The novelty, conducted by music director Robert Spano at Bass Performance Hall, was pianist Dejan Lazi\u0107\u2019s piano-concerto arrangement of Brahms\u2019 Double Concerto for violin and cello. A Croatian native trained in clarinet and composition as well as piano at the Salzburg Mozarteum, Lazi\u0107 has composed original works as well as an earlier piano-concerto version of Brahms\u2019 Violin Concerto. What\u2019s billed as the Brahms\/ Lazi\u0107 Piano Concerto \u2018No. 4\u2019 leaves the orchestral score untouched but adapts the solo parts for more or less Brahmsian pianistic effects\u2026.\u00a0 I rather enjoyed it. Lazi\u0107\u2019s arrangement supplied pianistic sonorities that effectively filled in solo parts originally for just a violin and a cello. Whether unaccompanied or integrated within orchestral textures, the piano parts sounded plausibly Brahmsian to me\u2026. Brahms was no stranger to rearrangements. He developed his Piano Concerto No. 1 from a two-piano sonata and an intermediate symphonic version. And he produced piano arrangements of all four of his symphonies\u2026. Lazi\u0107 played his Double Concerto arrangement with panache \u2026 The performance was personable and caringly formed, and violins produced a particularly lovely silvery sheen\u2026. I rather like the current FWSO practice of introducing concerts with well-produced videos featuring members of the orchestra.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Saturday\u2019s (9\/26) Dallas Morning News, Scott Cantrell writes, \u201cFamiliar composers Joseph Haydn and Johannes Brahms, born almost…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[33338,116,118,117,13473,33339],"class_list":["post-453405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-composers","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-musicians","tag-repertoire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}