Pianophilia

Dear Kamator. I am glad you enjoy the Kaper transcriptions. Here are the other ones you requested. I may have a source for Nos. 8 and 9, but the other I cannot find anywhere. frlszt1811

Thank you frlszt1811, for the most excellent Kaper transcriptions. I've never seen these before and glad to see such quality work. They are much fun to play.

Request: Leah (Leea) Levinson's transcription of Schumann Op. 25 No 3. To my knowledge it is her only transcription. She wont a prize in 1932 at the All Russian Competition as was assistant to Alexander Goldenweiser at the Moscow conservatory. I believe she wrote this down in the early 1960's.

Scriabinoff wrote:Not unusual to give 'concert transcription' treatment to these, but first Theme and Var. I have come across.

Butler, MW - Brilliant Variations on Holy Holy Holy (1).pdf

Can't find any bio info, but welcome any input. He apparently did a lot of this sort of thing.

Thanks very much for that. As a pianist and church organist I am very interested in such music, and especially piano transcriptions of hymns. If there are any more available I would certainly love to see them. I have a book of similar transcriptions at home (can't remember who the transcriber is) and will try to scan and post it.

Here is Cyril Scott's piano transcription of Bach's "My Heart Ever Faithful" :

passthesalt wrote:Here is Cyril Scott's piano transcription of Bach's "My Heart Ever Faithful" :

Bach My Heart Ever Faithful 2h Scott.pdf

Nice transcription-thanks.

Jim Faston wrote:

passthesalt wrote:Here is Cyril Scott's piano transcription of Bach's "My Heart Ever Faithful" :

Bach My Heart Ever Faithful 2h Scott.pdf

Nice transcription-thanks.

Seconded!

Two other song transcriptions by Jules Rochard.

The Irish Melody Love's young dream and the Hunting Song Old Towler composed by William Shield (1748-1829).
Original song is on Levy:
https://jscholarship.library.jhu.edu/handle/1774.2/3937

Published by Edwin Ashdown, London, n.d. (c. 1860-80).

Thank you FW190 for reminding us about the English composer William Shield.
Scottish Nationalist members of Pianophilia might like to check this out:-
http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/tyne/hi/peo ... 414980.stm

Timtin wrote:Thank you FW190 for reminding us about the English composer William Shield.
Scottish Nationalist members of Pianophilia might like to check this out:-
http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/tyne/hi/peo ... 414980.stm

Bloody sassenachs always wanting to steal from Scotland and call it their own. The tune was originally called "I fee'd a lad at Michaelmas"
Please see the folowing link for the truth about the tune.
http://books.google.nl/books?id=l-PWAAA ... 22&f=false

The original tune consisted of the first four lines altered by Shield and used in his opera, however Burns notated the last two lines from an old man that he heard singing it, as he said, and I quote from a letter Burns wrote to Thomson "The air is but mediocre; but the following song, the old song of the olden times, and which has never been in print, nor even in manuscript, until I took it down from an old man's singing, is enough to recommend any air.'
To be charitable you could say that the original melody was very old but subsequently altered and extended into the well known tune that it has become by many more hands than just Burns and William Shield.
Timtin I sentence you to eating one haggis per week for 6 months!!!!!
regards
Rob Roy MacGregor