The Virtuoso Piano Transcription Series

The concert piece Paganini Jazz by Faz?l Say, which was inspired by classical, modern and jazz styles, is reminiscent of the music of such greats as Scott Joplin, Art Tatum, Gershwin and Bernstein, an...

The final movement of the Sonata in A major KV 331 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the Rondo Alla Turca, is one of the most famous piano pieces of all time. Once only familiar to musical experts, later a...

The Turkish pianist and composer Faz?l Say has from the age of sic begun each day with the performance of a keyboard work by Bach; his concert programmes include both numerous original compositions an...

Das Requiem von Gabriel Fauré gehört zweifellos zu den wichtigsten Werken seiner Gattung. Der weltweit gefeierte bulgarische Pianist und Komponist Emile Naoumoff, Schüler von Nadia Boulanger, schrieb...

Between 1920 and 1940 Grainger published a loose series of piano transcriptions under the title of 'Free Settings of Favourite Melodies' in order to make a wide audience acquainted with the music of g...

Summertime Variations is the third arrangement I have made of Gershwin's Summertime - and the first for solo piano. It begins and ends very quietly and cantabile with a meditation on the well-known op...

The Virtuoso Piano Transcription Series presents sophisticated piano transcriptions of well-known past and present works. The art of transcription and paraphrase, particularly established by Franz Lis...

In her transcription of Brahms' Symphony No. 4 Idil Biret follows the original score. Sometimes, however, she also notated by ear, thus creating a broad spectrum of timbres and expressions for the pla...

Der erste Band dieser Reihe enthält die wegen ihrer Virtuosität berüchtigte sogenannte 'Donau-Arabeske' des polnischen Pianisten Adolf Schulz-Evler, in deren geradezu genialer Einleitung das berühmtes...

The opera paraphrases take a prominent place among Liszt's complete works as a self-contained art form alongside original compositions. Feruccio Busoni values the high artistic merit of these composit...

Ich schrieb diese kleine Paraphrase der Gavotte aus Bachs Partita in E-dur vor zwanzig Jahren. Eigentlich ist sie eine Art doppelte Hommage: auf der einen Seite ist es natürlich ein Tribut an J. S. Ba...

Glenn Gould's transcriptions of the Siegfried Idyll, Morning Mist and Siegfried's Journey along the Rhine from Richard Wagner's Ring of the Nibelungen are already legendary as recordings. The Siegfrie...

With the prelude to the Mastersingers we now publish the second of three Wagner transcriptions already made legendary by Gould's 1973 recording. Gould brought Wagner's 'brilliant counterpoint' to life...

In this series, Schott presents demanding piano transcriptions of well-known works. The series comprises 14 editions, all volumes of which have been compiled with great care and given a special cover....

The Turkish pianist and composer Faz?l Say has from the age of six begun each day with the performance of a keyboard work by Bach; his concert programmes include both numerous original compositions an...

I devote one movement of this work to each of the two figures. I have interpreted Nietzsche's character as energetic, painful and harsh. In contrast, the second movement 'Wagner' with its calm and med...

The exceptional pianist Marc-André Hamelin has written this arrangement of the Brazilian world hit Tico Tico no Fubá for piano solo. Using all means of classical virtuoso piano playing, Hamelin has Ti...

Die Rosenkavalier-Fantasie über das berühmte Schluss-Duett der Oper stammt aus der Feder des 1882 in Melbourne geborenen Percy Aldridge Grainger. 1895 kam Grainger als Wunderkind nach Europa, gastiert...

Partiendo de la idea de las musas griegas, Musae es un reflejo contemporáneo de diferentes aspectos de la mujer, en todo su poder, vulnerabilidad, desorden, belleza, sabiduría y capacidad ilimitada de...

When Franz Liszt arranged Isoldens Liebestod for piano solo, he adhered closely to Wagner's orchestral setting. The Latvian pianist and composer Vestard Shimkus, however, approaches Wagner from a mode...

Obwohl Glenn Gould in erster Linie für seine Interpretationen von Bach, Beethoven und Schoenberg berühmt wurde, war er am Klavier ein überzeugender Darsteller von Opern- und Orchestermusik des späten...

Gefürchtet, geachtet und geliebt. Prüfstein, Grenzerfahrung und Versuchung. Eines der großen, bis heute geheimnisvollsten Werke der Musikgeschichte ist die Chaconne von Johann Sebastian Bach, ein Werk...

La Cumparsita, which means something like little street parade, is among the best-known tangos and melodies ever. The pianist and composer Cyprien Katsaris has transcribed the work by the Uruguayan ta...