transcriptions Archive
O’Riley’s LISZT, Blu-ray (2013)
The Blu-ray video release of an album that we liked earlier—a lot.
SARASATE Transcriptions = Works of MOZKOWSKI, BACH, HANDEL, LECLAIR, GOUNOD, CHOPIN & Others – Tianwa Yang, violin/ Markus Hadulla, piano – Naxos
Violinistic derring-do by way of Sarasate transcriptions makes this album by Tianwa Yang hard to resist.
“WAGNER and the Piano” = Severin von Eckardstein, p. – MD&G“Magic Fire and Other WAGNER Transcriptions” = Risto-Matti Marin, p. – Alba
Comparison-and-contrast-a-plenty in these two fine recordings of Wagner transcriptions.
“WAGNER and the Piano” = Severin von Eckardstein, p. – MD&G“Magic Fire and Other WAGNER Transcriptions” = Risto-Matti Marin, p. – Alba
Comparison-and-contrast-a-plenty in these two fine recordings of Wagner transcriptions.
STRAVINSKY: The Rite of Spring; Pastorale; BACH (arr. Stokowski): Toccata and Fugue in d; Fugue in g; Passacaglia and Fugue in c – Philadelphia Orch./ Yannick Nezet-Seguin – DGG
Conductor Nezat-Seguin revisits the Stravinsky masterpiece this centenary year, but even with Stokowski’s orchestra, the original magic fails to appear.
“Stokowski, A Renaissance and Baroque Concert” = Works of BACH, VIVALDI, LULLY, CETI, FRESCOBALDI, PALESTRINA & GABRIELI – Solosts/Leopold Stokowski & His Sym. Orch. – Pristine Audio
A collection of Leopold Stokowski’s transcriptions of ‘older’ music, this Pristine reissue presents works in the glorious Stokowski Sound that purists denigrate but music-lovers applaud.
“Bach Crossings” = Bach Transcriptions for Piano Four Hands by KURTAG, GLEICHAUF, and REGER – Stephanie Ho & Saar Ahuvia, pianos – New Focus
Delightfully anachronistic and idiomatically ear-pleasing all at once.
“O’Riley’s LISZT”: = Reminiscences de Don Juan (after MOZART); Fruhlingsnacht (after SCHUMANN); Prelude & Liebestod (after WAGNER, ed. Moszkowski and O’Riley); Fruhlingslaube (after SCHUBERT); BERLIOZ: Symphonie fantastique (trans. LISZT) – Christopher O’Riley, p. – Oxingale Records (2 CDs)
Christopher O’Riley performs an illustrious series of Liszt transcriptions—each brilliant, audacious, and sensuous in its own way, a dazzling tribute to the transcriber and architect of keyboard magic.
BACH: The French Suites 1 – 3; Praeludium XXIV; Passacaglia in c – Mika Väyrynen, accordion – Alba
If you share the European predilection for classical transcriptions on the accordion, this is for you.
“Rite” = STRAVINSKY: The Rite of Spring; Petrouchka (piano transcriptions) – Jon Kimura Parker, p. – self
A bold and mostly successful transcription effort.
Sergei Kvitko – Ad Libitum = BACH: Prelude in C Major; MOZART: Fantasy in D Minor; HAYDN: Variations in F Minor; GRANADOS: Escenas Romanticas; MUSSORGSKY: Trepak from Songs and Dances of Death; YSAYE: Sonata No. 3 – Sergei Kvitko, piano – Blue Griffin
Russian virtuoso Segei Kvitko offers up a program of dynamic transcriptions and arrangements of music dear to his heart, especially an Ysaye sonata whose tradition reaches back to Bach.
Piano Rarities, Vol. 3: Transcriptions = of works by KHACHATURIAN, RACHMANINOV, BORODIN, TCHAIKOVSKY, KARLOWICZ, R. STRAUSS – Cyprien Katsaris – Piano 21
This disc claims a tradition that embraces the great transcribers like Franz Liszt, Sergei Rachmaninov, Leopold Godowsky, Earl Wild, Karol A. Penson, and Vladimir Leyetchkiss.
ALBÉNIZ: Serenata = Prelude, Cordoba, Oriental; Granada, Sevilla; Mallorca; Zambra Granadina; Torre Bermeja – Stephen Marchionda, guitar – MDG
The perfumed romance of Albéniz is in large supply on this fine disc.
RAVEL: Music for Two Pianos = Rapsodie Espagnole; Intro. and Allegro; Entre cloches; Sheherazade; Frontispice; La Valse – Stephen Coombs & Christopher Scott, pianos – Regis
A superior Ravel disc from 20 years ago.
DEBUSSY/COLIN MATTHEWS: 24 Preludes for Pian0; Postlude: Monsieur Croche- Hallé Orchestra/Sir Mark Elder – Hallé
These are not note-for-note transcriptions, but efforts to discover the real intent behind each Prelude and to translate that into orchestral music.
BACH: Original works and transcriptions – Evgeni Koroliov, piano/ Ljupka Hadzigeorgieva, piano – Tacet
Adventurous programming from a pianist who is starting to really make some noise.
“Bach-Centric” BACH: Sonata in a; Ave Maria; Little Fugue in g; Sel. from Cantata 29, Sonata No. 2, Cello Suite No. 1, Two-Part Inventions, Concertos in d and F – Teal Creek Music MICHAEL PAGAN: 12 Preludes & Fugues – Colorado Sax. Quartet – Tapestry
Two interesting albums of classical saxophone quartet with a Bachian connection.
DVORAK: Songs My Great-Grandfather Taught Me = 30 Transcriptions by JOSEF SUK: 7 Gypsy Songs; In Folk Tone: 2 Songs; 8 Love Songs; “Leave Me Alone,”; Lullaby; 10 Biblical Songs; “Captured” from Moravian Duets – Suk/Vladimir Ashkenazy – Toccata Classics
Josef Suk pays homage to his illustrious Great-Grandfather Dvorak’s song legacy through a series of plaintive and melodious transcriptions.
Christopher O’Riley, piano – Hold Me To This (World Villge)
O’Riley’s own solo piano transcriptions of songs by Radiohead
Stereotypes Audio
Cembal d’amour
Pure Pleasure / Speakers Corner
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