Pianophilia

Aggelos wrote:alfore, if possible gives us some slick (and rare) piano transcriptions' scores as well!!

OK. One in advance:

The "other" Petrouchka Suite:

Igor STRAVINSKY
Suite
de cinq pièces tirée du ballet
Pétrouchka
et transcrite pour piano à deux mains
par
Théodore Szántó** Very interesting to compare this with the composer's own arrangement (who took much more liberty, especially in the last piece - "La semaine grasse" - where he combined a couple of numbers to make a very effective ending)!

**(b Vienna, 1877; d Budapest, 1934). Austrian‐born Hung. pianist and composer. Pupil of Dachs, Fuchs, Chován, Koessler, Busoni. Rev. vers. of Delius's pf. conc. (1906–7) is ded. to him; gave f.p. at Promenade Concert in London 1907. Wrote opera Typhoon (1924), orch. works, and chamber music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nkks3iV9JGE

Re Polovinkin sonata

Thank you very much for the helpful responses - all of which make sense to me.
I must have seen "duole" before, but for some reason these ones leapt out of the page at me and looked very odd.
The more I tried to reconcile the two hands the more muddled I got! Much easier to ask the experts, I thought - and I was right.

Jetz, ist alles klar.
Thanks,

tobyjj

Alternative scan (the "Liadov First Editions Project"):

Anatoly LIADOV
Trois Bagatelles op. 53

Alfred, the Stravinsky-Szántó Petrushka is a very interesting transcription. It is indeed very instructive to compare the two versions. Seems I'm usually comparing versions of Bach transcriptions, but this Szántó version gives me something new to compare: It is a bit simplified, but not by much and is very interesting! I feel Stravinsky's own transcription is one of the best ever done by any composer.

Posted as an example of the "non jazz-influenced" piano works of this
well-known but still widely neglected composer:

Erwin (Ervin) SCHULHOFF
3. Suite (Piano left hand alone)

alfor wrote:
**(b Vienna, 1877; d Budapest, 1934). Austrian‐born Hung. pianist and composer. Pupil of Dachs, Fuchs, Chován, Koessler, Busoni. Rev. vers. of Delius's pf. conc. (1906–7) is ded. to him; gave f.p. at Promenade Concert in London 1907. Wrote opera Typhoon (1924), orch. works, and chamber music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nkks3iV9JGE

Thanks Alfor!!!!
Szanto is indeed one of my favourite transcribers! I don't know whether you have "access" to Bach-Szanto transcriptions such as : BWV 531, BWV 535, BWV 555, BWV 564, BWV 566?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Co-qFv5etY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M_uDavhaAo#

In any case, thanks a lot for the rarities in terms of original piano works. However, be bound to remember the rare piano transcriptions as well, on the grounds that a good transcription shall always be an enjoying work (not matter how rare it is).

Apropos Stravinsky-Szanto:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7q3jsx21huo

Apropos Bach-transcriptions:
http://etd.ohiolink.edu/view.cgi?acc_num=ucin1322052457

Alfor it seem we have pretty good coverage of Pretrushka with Stravinsky, Szántó and Brumberg weighing in, although I don't think Brumberg published "Petrushka's Death".

The Cyprien Katsaris performance of Badinerie & Fugue, truly glitters—what an amazing performance of an amazing transcription.

Feeling the need to put in a plug for my favorite Bach transcriber, Alexander Siloti, this volume is indispensible:

http://tinyurl.com/7qpe9h8

Didn't know Schulhoff's Suite #3 for the left hand, and I thought I had most of his music. Schulhoff is always much fun to play and a welcome addition.

Let's all join in the celebration of Johann Sebastian's birthday tomorrow!

A BACH BOOK for Harriet Cohen
Transcriptions for pianoforte from the works of J. S. Bach made by
Granville Bantock, Arnold Bax, Lord Berners, Arthur Bliss, Frank Bridge,
Eugene Goosens, Herbert Howells, John Ireland, Constant Lambert,
R. Vaughan Williams, William Walton and W. Gillies Whittaker From my own copy (original first edition), which lacks a corner of one page (due to an
overly temperamental page turner??). I provided the two complete pages from another source, though.

alfor wrote:A BACH BOOK for Harriet Cohen

I'll offer an alternate (nmo) scan