Great Piano Transcriptions

On this CD:

1. Valse de l'opéra Faust, transcription for piano (after Gounod), S. 407 (LW A208)
Composed by Franz Liszt
Performed by Geoffrey Saba

2. Ramble on Richard Strauss's Love duet From "Der Rosenkavalier"
Composed by Percy Grainger
Performed by Geoffrey Saba

3. Ständchen ("Mach' auf, mach' auf, doch leise, mein Kind"), song for voice & piano, Op. 17/2 Ständchen, transcribed for piano by Gieseking
Composed by Richard Strauss
Performed by Geoffrey Saba

4. Paraphrase for piano of Isolde's death from Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"
Composed by Moritz Moszkowski
Performed by Geoffrey Saba

5. La valse, poème choréographique for orchestra (or piano) Transcribed for paino by Ravel
Composed by Maurice Ravel
Performed by Geoffrey Saba

6. Les Contes d'Hoffmann, opera in 4 acts Barcarolle~Transcribed by Moszkowski
Composed by Jacques Offenbach
Performed by Geoffrey Saba

7. Paraphrase on Tchaikovsky's Waltz of the Flowers
Composed by Percy Grainger
Performed by Geoffrey Saba

8. The Man I Love, transcription for piano (transcription from Gershwin)
Composed by Percy Grainger
Performed by Geoffrey Saba

9. Love Walked In, for piano (transcription from Gershwin)
Composed by Percy Grainger
Performed by Geoffrey Saba

Tracks:

Toccata & Fugue In D minor
Menuet
'Little' Fugue In G Minor
Adagio Sostenuto
Hungarian Dance No. 6
Clair De Lune
F-Dieu A Slle
La Cathale Engloutie
Prelude In C Sharp Minor
Night On Bald Mountain
The Great Gate Of Kiev

Customer Reviews:

Magical and Majestic..........2004-12-30

Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops take a break from their usual contemporary program; to perform this eclectic selection of transcriptions by the flamboyant Leopold Stokowski. The novice wouldn't have known that Stokowski got his start in 1909 with the Cincinnati Symphony. I guess they are paying homage to him with this album. Where other discs usually concentrate on just Bach or baroque items; this disc offers orchestrations from Boccherini to Rachmaninoff. The digital recording is fine and detailed complementing the instrumentation. Though purists find Stokowski's meddling offensive, his transcriptions can make classical music more approachable to new ears. Kunzel kind of gives us his version of Stokowki's greatest hits, showing serious affection for the music. You get "Toccata and Fugue"
to start it off, and a very different "Great Gate of Kiev", less congested in orchestration than the Ravel, to end it. Most of the pieces have bombastic finales, which include heavy brass and percussion and even carillons ring out. A very likable program that won't fade with repeated listening. Add a star if your not aware that Stokowki's own recordings of these pieces are still available.

A MUST HAVE!!! Buy two you might ware this CD out........1999-06-12

Arranged by the greatest, conducted by one of the greatest, and performed by the best you could not ask for anything more. These performances will inspire forever. Five stars do not do this music compilation justice!

Speaking In Strings - A Musical Companion To The Film (1999 Documentary) / Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg

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Profile of passion
Nadja - breakthrough artist
Bravo Nadja!
Bits and pieces winningly played

Speaking In Strings - A Musical Companion To The Film (1999 Documentary) / Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg
Sergei Rachmaninov , Masao Kawasaki , Benny Kim , Lynn Harrell , and Ryo Sasaki
Manufacturer: EMI Classics
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Speaking in Strings
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg - It Ain't Necessarily So
Humoresque
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg - Mendelssohn, Saint-Saëns, Massenet
Brahms: Violin Concerto in D/Bruch: Concerto #1 in G Minor; Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg

ASIN: B00000K4EY
Release Date: 1999-09-14

Tracks:

Carnival Of The Animals: The Swan
Violin Concerto In D Minor, Op. 47: II. Adagio di molto
Trio in A Minor, Op. 50: II. A. Tema con variazioni
The Love For Three Oranges: March
Italian Serenade
Carnival Of Venice (Variations On A Famous Theme): V. Rhumba
Moto Perpetuo
Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14
Souvenir De Florence, Op. 70: II. Adagio cantabile e con moto
Violin Concerto No. 1 In A Minor, Op. 99: IV. Burlesque

Customer Reviews:

Profile of passion.......2000-02-20

I have not yet been in the right place at the right time to see this film but I have followed Nadja's career since she won the Naumberg competition. This is a beautiful and lovingly compiled profile of her life in music, as selected from her recording history to date (not included is the astonishing recent album of gypsy music with the Assad Brothers). I knew that the creators of this soundtrack had a spiritual affinity with their subject when I saw the Souvenir de Florence second movement selection, the Sibelius second movement, the Shostakovich Burlesque and the Rachmaninov vocalise - pieces that capture the Nadja that has always captured me. Indeed, for us long-time fans, and for anyone, this is a wonderful souvenir album of one of the most soul-possessing fiddlers of our time.

Nadja - breakthrough artist.......1999-12-30

The picture on this album cover is horrible... gotta say this up front.

Now, if I could only give a one sentence appraisal of both this CD and the documentary, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg is the one person, the one superior artist who is also a "real" person (well, who let us see that), who could possibly reach out and grab the non-classical music enthusiast and make them thirst for classical music, because they will want more of her music.

And, if there were no other reason, I love the album, but then it and the film it stems from are so rich on so many other facets. The music itself is perfect beyond reproach.

For those of us who were never completely classically inclined, like myself, we are presented with a whole person here. Nadja is not stiff and unreachable, but rather, someone who is so very much an "average joe" who loves her family and treasures her friends, perhaps with an extremely heightened awareness that we would all kill for but might kill us if we ever got there without a likewise outlet as she has with her music, but also with a "who you lookin' at" New York accent.

I'd like to see Paola Di Florio's documentary of Nadja, "Speaking in Strings" as required viewing, world-wide. I think then that classical music would have a whole new audience. Not a doubt in my mind.

Until I saw "Speaking in Strings", I thought all classical soloists were people with sticks up their behinds who talked down their noses at everyone else. Shows you what I know.

Her music reduces me to tears, in a way I never thought possible (there's an old phrase that goes -- "This guy not only knows nothing, he don't even suspect nothing").. and that was really honestly me and classical music.

I can't even watch TV now without hearing the violin in the music of shows or commercials and then instantly switching to the stereo to this or another of her albums to hear Nadja, to hear the really good stuff. I want to feel it now, and no longer being fed junk or be a passive observer.

Just my opinion, but we've shortchanged ourselves in what "feeds" us. I never knew it was missing, until I saw this documentary, which led me to buy the album, which now, happily takes me from smiles to tears throughout. So that now I am listening to it all. A whole new world has been opened up to me.

So, I give this album as many stars as there are in the heavens. I've gotten a great gift, and if I go any farther, I'll ruin it with words.

Thank you Paola and Nadja for taking the time, the caring, and to Nadja especially for letting us so deeply into her life to make sure we "got it."

Nadja, I "got it", and I now totally believe that line in the film where you say that great moments we all have are fleeting and they are only good if you "share it." You sure have shared it. Thanks.

Bravo Nadja!.......1999-10-23

Saw the film...now have the album...love both. She's an inspiration to all of us who live in the fast lane...both emotionally and professionally... Allegro Vivace Con Mucho Brio!

PS: Per the previous reviewers comment, in the days of Mozart/Beethoven, etc., it was quite customary to perform sections of long-form works independently when playing concerts...which just confirms by example that there's nothing "wrong" or low-brow about doing it now, either in concert or on a recording.

Bits and pieces winningly played.......1999-10-07

The EMI release of (72435 56908-2) is subtitled "A Musical Companion to the Film." So I assume the music herein is not from the film but a sampling that represents, as the soloist is quoted as saying, "the variety and growth of my musical life so far." The writer is Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg and the film is to be about her life as an artist. But none of that need concern us here. As a rule I object to movements being played out of the context of the work from which they come--e.g., the Adagio movement of the Sibelius Violin Concerto--but in this case the opening selection, Saint-Saens "The Swan," was so winningly played that I found myself liking this program very much indeed. Other composers represented here are listed above in this website. The artist is given more than adequate assistance from several pianists, chamber players, and the London Symphony Orchestra, making me suspect the selections are drawn from earlier recordings. Nevertheless, for those who like violin music in general and do not care if you hear an entire composition or just part of one, or for those who simply admire this artist, I can recommend this CD.

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Liszt: The Great Transcriptions

Manufacturer: Philips
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Classical | Styles | Music

Jean-Yves Thibaudet ~ Liszt - Opera Transcriptions ~ Wagner · Mozart · Donizetti · Verdi · Gounod · Tchaikovsky
Franz Liszt: Schubert Song Transcriptions
Franz Liszt: Années De Pèlerinage
Dvorak: Piano Concerto; Schubert: 'Wanderer' Fantasy / Richter, Kleiber
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No.2; Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.5 "Emperor"

ASIN: B0000041MP
Release Date: 1997-06-10

Tracks:

Waltz from Gounod's Faust
Polonaise from Tchaikovsly's Eugine Onegin
Illustration #2 (les patineurs) from Meyerbeers Le Prophete
Spinning chorus from Wagner's Der fliegende Hollander
Elsa's Bridal Procession from Wagner's Lohengrin
March from Wagner's Parsifal
Widmeng (after Schumann)

Tracks:

Reminiscences de Norma (Bellini)
Rigoletto
Ernani
Il Trovatore: Miserere
I Lombardi: Salve Maria de Jerusalem
Aida: Dansa sacra e duetto finale
Do Carlo: Coro di festa e marcia funebre

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Great Piano Transcriptions

Manufacturer: Innov. Music Prod.
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Waltzes | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music

Fantasies | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Classical | Styles | Music

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ASIN: B000000TG2
Release Date: 1993-09-11

Tracks:

Waltz from 'Faust'
Fant On The Final Love Duet from 'Der Rosenkavalier'
Ser
Liebestod from'Tristan and Isolde' (Isolden's Tod)
La Valse (Poem choregraphique)
Barcarolle from 'The Tales of Hoffman'
Paraphrase on 'Waltz Of The Flowers' from 'The Nutcracker'
The Man I Love
Love Walked In

Leopold Stokowski: Orchestral Transcriptions

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Leopold Stokowski: Orchestral Transcriptions

Manufacturer: Polygram Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Mazurkas | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music

Pavanes | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music

Preludes | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Oratorios | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Oratorios | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Tracks:

Toccata & Fugue in d - Czech PO/Leopold Stokowski
Prelude in e flat - Czech PO/Leopold Stokowski
Geistliches Lied: Mein Jesu - Czech PO/Leopold Stokowski
Chorale prelude: Wir glauben all an einen Gott - Czech PO/Leopold Stokowski
Chorale (from Easter cantata) - Czech PO/Leopold Stokowski
Passacaglia & Fugue in c - Czech PO/Leopold Stokowski
Pavan: The Earl of Salisbury & Galliard - LSO/Leopold Stokowski
Trumpet voluntary - Howard Snell
Moment musical No.3 in f - LSO/Leopold Stokowski
Mazurka in a, op.17 no.4 - LSO/Leopold Stokowski
Chant sans paroles - LSO/Leopold Stokowski
Extase - David Gray
Prelude in c#, op.3 no.2 - Czech PO/Leopold Stokowski

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Everyone should own a disc of Leopold Stokowski's Bach transcriptions. Since his death they have actually gained in popularity, owing to their sheer color and sense of fun. The most famous of them--the Toccata and Fugue in D Minor--was the one that appeared at the beginning of the film Fanstasia, and Stokowski himself conducted and recorded it about 10 million times over the course of a very long career. General critical consensus places these live recordings as among the best Stokowski ever made of his Bach arrangements. He had a world-class orchestra playing their collective hearts out for him, and it was all captured in immediate, multi-miked stereo sound. Cool! --David Hurwitz

Vladimir Viardo: Organ/ Piano Transcriptions

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Viardo touched God.
Wonderful & sensitive performance!!

Vladimir Viardo: Organ/ Piano Transcriptions

Manufacturer: Pro-Piano Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Vladimir Viardo: Liszt Transcriptions, Schubert Landler

ASIN: B000007TRK
Release Date: 1996-04-16

Tracks:

Prld and Fugue in a, BWV 543: Prld
Prld and Fugue in a, BWV 543: Fugue
Choral No.2 in b World Premiere
Choral No.3 in a World Premiere
Prld, Fugue and Var, Op.18 in b: Prld
Prld, Fugue and Var, Op.18 in b: Fugue
Prld, Fugue and Var, Op.18 in b: Var

Album Description

Vladimir Viardo

Born in the Caucasus Mountalns near the Black Sea, Russian pianist Vladimir Viardo traveled to Moscow at the age ot fourteen to further his musical formation. Once in the capital, he was taken to the family of Lev Naumov (Custodian of the Heinrich Neuhaus methods that are credited with producing the extraordinary twentieth-century Russian keyboard masters, Gilels and Richter), with whom he later studied at the Moscow Conservatory. During his six years of study he was tenured as a soloist by The Moscow Philharmonia, and after receiving his doctorate, went on to the position of assistant professor with Naumov at the Conservatory where he is associated to this day.

In 1971 he was awarded the Grand Prix and the Prix du Prince Rainier in the Marguérite Long-Jacques Thibaud Competition of Paris, and two years later was the top prize winner of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, subsequently receiving contracts for some seventy recital and symphony orchestra appearances in major US cities.

Then, despite having already launched an impressive global career, Mr. Viardo's travel visa was mysteriously revoked, resulting in his virtual imprisonment behind the iron curtain for fourteen years. During his confinement he developed new horizons in artistic achievement, and enlarged his repertoire, which eventually included thirty-seven concertos.

With the era of "Glasnost" and "Perestroika," Vladimir Viardo returned to public engagements in Germany and in the US, and was quickly offered a tour and recording contract with the Dallas Symphony. As Artist-In-Residence at the University of Nor1h Texas, Mr. Viardo established the Viardo Fellows Foundation, which is committed to providing musical training of the highest artistic quality.

Mr. Viardo's tours have taken him to leading Nonh American and European cities, as Well as to Asia, South Africa, Israel, and to Central and South America, where he has appeared as soloist with such conductors as Mehta, Maazel, Penderecki, and Mata. His recordings have Included the works of Nicolai Medtner, Lutoslawski with the Polish National Radio Orchestra, and a SONY release honoring Penderecki's sixtieth birthday. Mr. Viardo's first Pro Piano Records release of Bach-Liszt and Franck-Viardo Organ Piano Transcriptions (PPR 2245O9) received critical acclaim internationally and continues its worldwide popularity.

Customer Reviews:

Viardo touched God........2002-11-21

It's the most precious recording that I ever heard. It caught my soul and dropped my tears. Listening to the Mr. Viardo's transcriptions I could hardly believe that the piano could sound like that...what a genius work.
This CD proves that we still have great pianists that are concerned with our feelings. Mr. Viardo is a pianist-artist, is playing is a full painting with a deep meaning.

Wonderful & sensitive performance!!.......2000-12-04

Bach has lovely polyphonic music compositions which have to be sensitively & insightfully performed to bring out his harmonic & stylistic intentions for any particular works of his and the C.Franck's Chorals were carefully transcribed to retain it's original depth & beauty of the texture & harmony.

Tracks:

Fant And Fugue In g, BWV 542: Fant
Fant And Fugue In g, BWV 542: Fugue
Die Stadt, D 957 No.11
Der Doppelganger, D 957 No.13
Aufenthalt, D 957 No.5
Der Muller Und Der Bach, D 795 No.19
Gretchen Am Spinnrade, D 118
Kriegers Ahnung, D 957 No.2
Das Wandern, D 795 No.1
Standchen, D 957 No.4
Auf Dem Wasser Zu Singen, D 774
Landler

Album Description

Vladimir Viardo, Piano Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886) Transcription

-- Organ - Piano Transcription --

J.S.Bach - Liszt: Fantasy and Fugue in G Minor, BWV 542M
· Fantasy
· Fugue

-- Song - Piano Transcriptions --

Franz Schubert - Liszt
· Die Stadt D957 No.11
· Der Doppelgänger D957 No.13
· Aufenthalt D957 No.5
· Der Müller und der Bach D795 No.19
· Gretchen am Spinnrade D118
· Kriegers Ahnung D957 No.2
· Das Wandern D795 No.1
· Ständchen D957 No.4
· Auf dem Wasser zu singen D774

Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828)
Ländler
No.1 -6 from "17 Ländler D.366"
No.3 from "16 Ländler D.734"
No.8 - 12, 14 & 1 from "17 Ländler D.366"

Tracks:

Salut d'amour/Liebesgrub Op.12
Liebesfreud
Liebesleid
Schon Rosmarin
It's Peaceful Here, Op. 21 No.7
Vocalise, Op.34 No.14
Melodie, Op.42 No.3
Valse sentimentale, Op.51, No.6
Valse scherzo, Op.34
Meditation (from Thais)
La capricieuse, Op. 17
Lotus Land, Op.47, No.1
Alt-Wien
Valse Sentimentale
Romantic Pieces, Op.75
Romantic Pieces, Op.75
Romantic Pieces, Op.75
Romantic Pieces, Op.75
2 Hungarian Dances (Nos.9 & 6)
2 Hungarian Dances (Nos.9 & 6)
Hymne zur Verherrlichung des groben Joachim

Bach: Organ Transcriptions; Chopin: Sonatas Nos. 2 & 3

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Bach: Organ Transcriptions; Chopin: Sonatas Nos. 2 & 3

Manufacturer: Biddulph Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Etudes | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music

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ASIN: B000001ZFM
Release Date: 1994-08-18

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Percy Grainger is remembered mostly as a composer, but in his time he was a noted touring pianist as well. On this disc, one of two from Biddulph featuring his work, Grainger plays the well-known Chopin Sonatas No. 2 and 3, and a group of Bach transcriptions, one of them his own. Grainger could be a very uneven pianist, but most of these performances catch him at his best, playing accurately and imaginatively with that special insight that only composers seem to have. I like the Chopin sonatas especially well, but the early electrical sound and low-level surface noise must be braved o enjoy all of this playing. --Leslie Gerber

Picture This: Artistic Transcriptions for Brass

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Picture This: Artistic Transcriptions for Brass

Manufacturer: Summit(Classical)
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Suites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Classical | Styles | Music

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ASIN: B0007X9TVG
Release Date: 2005-04-12

Tracks:

Promenade
Gnomus
Promenade
The Old Castle
Promenade
Tuileries
Bydlo
Promenade
Ballet Of The Unhatched Chicks
Samuel Goldenberg And Schmuyle
Promenade
Limoges, The Marketplace
Catacombs
Con Mortuis
Baba Yaga, The Hut On Fowl's Legs
The Great Gate Of Kiev
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
Les Toreadors
Prelude
Argonaise
Intermezzo
Seguedille
Les Dragons D'Alcala
Marche Des Contrebandiers
Habanera
Chanson Du Toreador
La Garde Montante
Danse Boheme

Album Description

This is a reissue of a recording that was scantily distributed first time around. The works selected for this recording were originally conceived for a different instrumentation. Pictures at an Exhibition by Mussorgsky and Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 were both written for solo piano, while Bizet's Carmen Suites were taken from the opera. As this recording will demonstrate, the brass quintet is more than capable of doing justice to such challenging works. Widely acclaimed as one of the world's finest brass ensembles, the Atlantic Brass Quintet has been heard in 48 of the United States and more than a dozen countries across four continents, performing a unique repertory spanning the Renaissance to the present.

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