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Topic: Stravinsky's petrouchka trancription for Arthur Rubinstein.  (Read 2593 times)

Offline classical pianist

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Stravinsky's petrouchka trancription for Arthur Rubinstein.
on: June 16, 2007, 09:51:17 PM
The piano version of the three mouvements from the ballet Petrouchka was written and dedicated to Arthur Rubinstein... I would like to know how Rubinstein interpreted the work himself.

And which recording of this work is recommended?
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Offline mephisto

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Re: Stravinsky's petrouchka trancription for Arthur Rubinstein.
Reply #1 on: June 16, 2007, 10:55:22 PM
There are no commercially available recordings of Rubinstein playing this piece, but we know that RCA has a live recording from 1969 in their archive somewhere.

Recomended recordings:

Pollini, Gilels, Weissenberg and Sokolov. Maybe Kissin, but I haven't heard the recording.
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Re: Stravinsky's petrouchka trancription for Arthur Rubinstein.
Reply #2 on: June 17, 2007, 12:31:58 AM
Rubinstein was the first to make the transcription but it was apparently more difficult than Stravinsky's so he did it himself and made it....less ;D difficult lol.
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Re: Stravinsky's petrouchka trancription for Arthur Rubinstein.
Reply #3 on: June 17, 2007, 07:00:50 AM
Rubinstein never played it because he loathed Stravinsky for saying that the piano is a percussion instrument, or so I've heard.
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Re: Stravinsky's petrouchka trancription for Arthur Rubinstein.
Reply #4 on: June 17, 2007, 07:25:15 AM
Well at leats that is not true, since he played it in public.
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