Piano Rarities Vol.3: Transcriptions | Piano 21 P21045

Piano Rarities Vol.3: Transcriptions

Label: Piano 21

Cat No: P21045

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 10th December 2012

Contents

Works

Borodin, Alexander

Prince Igor: Polovtsian Dances
» no.17 (arr. piano)

Dvorak, Antonin

Zigeunerlieder (Gypsy Songs) (7), op.55 B104
» no.4 Als die alte Mutter (Songs my mother taught me) (arr. piano)

Karlowicz, Mieczyslaw

To a Grieving Maiden (arr. piano)

Khachaturian, Aram

Gayaneh
» Adagio (arr. piano)
» Lullaby (arr. piano)
» Sabre Dance (arr. piano)
Masquerade Suite
» I Waltz (arr. piano)
Spartacus
» Adagio (arr. piano)

Moniuszko, Stanislaw

Mia Madre (O Matko Moja) (arr. piano)

Rachmaninov, Sergei

Suite no.2 in C major for two pianos, op.17 (arr. piano solo)
Symphony no.2 in E minor, op.27
» III Adagio (arr. for piano)

Strauss, Richard

Lieder (8), op.10 TrV141 (Gedichte aus 'Letzte Blatter')
» no.8 Allerseelen (arr. piano)

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich

Romances (6), op.38
» no.3 Amid the Din of the Ball (solo piano)

Artists

Cyprien Katsaris (piano)

Works

Borodin, Alexander

Prince Igor: Polovtsian Dances
» no.17 (arr. piano)

Dvorak, Antonin

Zigeunerlieder (Gypsy Songs) (7), op.55 B104
» no.4 Als die alte Mutter (Songs my mother taught me) (arr. piano)

Karlowicz, Mieczyslaw

To a Grieving Maiden (arr. piano)

Khachaturian, Aram

Gayaneh
» Adagio (arr. piano)
» Lullaby (arr. piano)
» Sabre Dance (arr. piano)
Masquerade Suite
» I Waltz (arr. piano)
Spartacus
» Adagio (arr. piano)

Moniuszko, Stanislaw

Mia Madre (O Matko Moja) (arr. piano)

Rachmaninov, Sergei

Suite no.2 in C major for two pianos, op.17 (arr. piano solo)
Symphony no.2 in E minor, op.27
» III Adagio (arr. for piano)

Strauss, Richard

Lieder (8), op.10 TrV141 (Gedichte aus 'Letzte Blatter')
» no.8 Allerseelen (arr. piano)

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich

Romances (6), op.38
» no.3 Amid the Din of the Ball (solo piano)

Artists

Cyprien Katsaris (piano)

About

With this third volume in the series 'Piano Rarities', Cyprien Katsaris continues exploring the almost limitless world of transcriptions for solo piano.

This album, largely devoted to Russian and Central European composers, offers us tastes of the many aspects of the art of transcription. Melodies by Dvořák, Tchaikovsky, Moniuszko and Karłowicz offer up their charms in these arrangements in which transcribers each pits his ingenuity against the others’, imparting to them the qualities of true piano romances.

The orchestral music of Khachaturian lends itself wonderfully to the piano: the extravagant virtuosity of the Sabre Dance keeps easy company with such moving pieces as the Lullaby or the Adagio from Spartacus; Suite no.2 for Two Pianos by Rachmaninov, freed from the constraints of having two performers, comes across with the style of a single player, so gaining in coherence; the Adagio from Symphony no.2 by the same composer is striking in the immediacy of its emotion and in the richness of its transcription for the piano.

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