Stravinsky's petrouchka trancription for Arthur Rubinstein.

[classical pianist]

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?

[mephisto]

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.

[mikey6]

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 difficult lol.

[Kassaa]

Rubinstein never played it because he loathed Stravinsky for saying that the piano is a percussion instrument, or so I've heard.

[mephisto]

Well at leats that is not true, since he played it in public.