17 BEATRICE BERRUT In other words, transcribing means bringing a personal perspective to a work written by someone else. Isn’t that intimidating? To try to reproduce on the piano the full splendour of the orchestra, with its blistering brass and long string sostenutos, is a very tricky exercise. It’s a real challenge in intellectual, pianistic and artistic terms. But it’s so stimulating! All the more so because you sometimes let yourself be led into the unknown when you take unexpected paths. What’s more, you have to feel free, not paralysed by the sacrosanct need to respect the original text, even if our teachers always told us the contrary. Because great music is so powerful that it can tolerate the omission of a crescendo or an accent, or a few other minor compromises. Transcription is necessarily an act of blasphemy. So I suppose I enjoy blasphemy!
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