Thread: Piano transcriptions

Hello guys and gals.

This is a thread where you post CDs that feature awesome, ravishing, breathtaking and exquisite piano transcriptions (and paraphrases). So let other people know about an awesome piano transcription you have discovered while you bought a CD, any CD.



A few of mine to begin with :


http://www.musicweb-international.co...to_SME1001.htm
http://satomusic.com/recordings/




http://www.musicweb-international.co...v01/Homage.htm
http://www.classicstoday.com/review.asp?ReviewNum=5203




http://www.avi-music.de/html/inhalt/kfr.html
http://www.klavierfestival.de/index.php?id=308









http://www.petronelmalan.com/recordings.htm

And a few more


http://www.camerata.co.jp/eu/cm28/e_28064.html
http://www.adam-online.at/wb_adam/pa...doris-adam.php




http://www.classicstoday.com/review.asp?ReviewNum=610




http://www.danacord.dk/frmsets/records/483-r.html




http://www.angelikanebel.de/musik_cd_jsb.html.en




http://www.musicweb-international.co...r_CDA67683.htm
http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/al.asp?al=CDA67683




http://www.musicweb-international.co..._cda67709p.htm
http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/al.asp?al=CDA67709

http://www.thomaslabe.com/pianist/tr...ntal-bach.html




http://www.bach-cantatas.com/NVD/PT-Naoumoff-Rec.htm
http://www.larchipel.net/component/p...id,2/vmcchk,1/






http://www.valerykuleshov.com/discography.html
Vivaldi-Stradal = epic!





http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Piano%2B21/P21030
http://www.cyprienkatsaris.net/commu...s/P21030-N.htm
Kreisler-Vaneyev = epic!





http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Piano%2B21/P21017
http://www.cyprienkatsaris.net/commu...cital-vol2.htm





http://www.classicstoday.com/review.asp?ReviewNum=7145

http://www.classicstoday.com/review.asp?ReviewNum=11009
http://www.audaud.com/article.php?ArticleID=2890

http://www.musicweb-international.co...l_Tocc0035.htm
http://www.toccataclassics.com/cddetail.php?CN=TOCC0035



http://www.cyprienkatsaris.net/commu...-promethee.htm




http://www.cyprienkatsaris.net/commu...scriptions.htm





http://www.danacord.dk/frmsets/records/429-r.html

http://www.classicsonline.com/catalo....aspx?pid=2853




http://www.musicweb-international.co...2876612732.htm




http://www.matsuev.ru/eng_main.mhtml?Part=23







http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Antes/BM319258
http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Pic-Non...ntes-CD%5D.jpg
http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Pic-Non...ntes-CD%5D.jpg

Well, you said awesome and paraphrases, right?

Great thread Aggelos! Thank you!

Cheers Danae!!!!
I'm glad you like them!
Ola kala ekei pera?


http://www.classicsonline.com/catalo...spx?pid=550519



http://www.classicsonline.com/catalo...spx?pid=257040








http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/...album_id=65699







http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/...lbum_id=147239

I just can't imagine how anyone would rather listen to a poor man's version of the original piece..

Originally Posted by ravellian

i just can't imagine how anyone would rather listen to a poor man's version of the original piece..

You are annoying! Go someplace else to disseminate your appalling ideas.






http://www.classicsonline.com/catalo...spx?pid=611379



http://www.classicsonline.com/catalo...spx?pid=824770





http://www.classicsonline.com/catalo...spx?pid=869625




http://www.classicsonline.com/catalo...spx?pid=988862




http://www.classicsonline.com/catalo...spx?pid=638593



http://www.classicsonline.com/catalo...spx?pid=618350

Inevitably Ferenc Liszt would never be too far away here - I particularly like the collection of Rossini trancriptions featuring the 12-part Soirees Musicales and, at the end, the William Tell Overture (on Naxos 8.553961 - played by Kemal Gekic).

I'm also interesting in hearing a transcription/reduction I've seen on the market of Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde. I like the work a lot but find some of it a bit too shrill so I'd like to find out if the atmospherics can still be evoked without an orchestra.

I saw Atamian play the Raphling transcription of the Rite on public television around 1982. Lucky for me, they showed it twice and I recorded the second time (and bought the LP after that, and the CD later still). He started each section composed and dry, and by the time he reached the end of each section, he was so hot that any move of his head sent a spray of perspiration into the air. Incredible performance from a musical standpoint.

Raphling also made a solo piano fantasia on Scheherazade. I picked up the score on my last visit to good old Patelson's in NYC, but haven't ever found a recording of it.

Some new discoveries


http://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item...._code=8.557717
http://www.theclassicalshop.net/Deta...mber=NA%207717




http://www.theclassicalshop.net/Deta...mber=NX%200418
http://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item...._code=8.570418



http://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item...._code=8.550215
http://www.theclassicalshop.net/Deta...mber=NA%200215






Tchaikovsky's own piano transcription for Marche Slave Op. 31 is wonderful
http://www.theclassicalshop.net/Deta...mber=NA%203330




http://www.theclassicalshop.net/Deta...mber=DN%200399
http://www.theclassicalshop.net/Deta...mber=DN%200689

I'm surprised this hasn't been mentioned:

Originally Posted by Ravellian

I just can't imagine how anyone would rather listen to a poor man's version of the original piece..

I sort of agree. I can't think of any piano transcriptions that I would take instead of the real thing - but they can still be insightful. I do quite enjoy Liszt's transcriptions of the Beethoven symphonies, although some work better on the piano than others.

Damn, double post