This is the online premiere of Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture arranged for violin and melodica solo by Cliff Bernzweig. No multitracking has been done; in other words, both parts are played as is. This was lots of fun to play, and was recorded in one day using an Olympus portable dictaphone that was then used as [...]

I have here chosen to use only one melodica for all 9 parts of Vivaldi’s b minor quadruple violin concerto from L’Estro Armonico. This means that all parts are constrained within 3 octaves. This has no effect on the violin parts, little effect on the viola parts (of which there are 2) and pretty significant [...]

For my second Vivaldi arrangement, I only needed to rewrite a small segment of the solo First Violin part, due to problems transferring the distinctive bowed patterns to a keyboard instrument.  I also encountered 4 high F’s in the Cello part that I needed to cover on the Alto Melodica (my Bass doesn’t go that [...]

This is the first non-Bach video that I have done with multiple melodicas, but since Bach rewrote this piece for organ, it still retains some connection to him. I have chosen to use Vivaldi’s original though, since the writing for two solo violins, two tutti violins, viola, and continuo has more of an ensemble texture [...]

With 10 solo parts divided into three trio groups and continuo, this semi-lengthy movement required the use of at least 9 individual video tracks in order to make it work. Because of the natural size restrictions that embedded video presents, I needed to make three sets of individual movies with 3 soloists each and then [...]

This is the first Bach project that can accurately be called an arrangement.  There are several elements in Bach’s brief yet jubilant finale from the Fourth Brandenburg Concerto that are problematic for the purposes of direct transcription.  First, the solo violin part is exceptionally virtuosic, with long roulades and distinct bowed arpeggios.  This doesn’t transfer [...]