Do you love transcriptions?

[pskim]

Do you love transcriptions like I do?  I have been collecting and still am of out of print and rare piano music scores, mainly virtousic transcriptions of this now slowly reviving art of composing.  I have over 1 gig of collected scores in pdf form.  So if any of you are interested in them, let me know and i'll send you a list of what I have.  I'll never be able to play them all in my life time so might as well share them with other piano enthusiasts like me.  As I said, they are mostly all virtuosic.  So they are DIFFICULT and you should have the chops to play them.  But most of the forum lurkers seem to be well accomplished pianists.  I'll be waiting.

[pianoloverus]

Dear pskim:

I don't know whether you got my e-mail. I am new to computers and sometimes make some errors in transmission. I would be extremely interested in receiving a list of your available transcriptions!

Thank you !!

[musik_man]

Do you have a transcription of Night on Bald Mountain or the Hebrides (fingal cave) overture.

[pianoloverus]

Dear pskim:

Did you get my e-mail about the  Feinberg transcriptions of Bach?

Pianoloverus

[sparrow]

I hope this mail won't get sent twice, as I pressed some key and gone it was.  

Musik_man, I've got a transcription of Mussorgskij's Night on a bald mountain, which says:
- version by Nikolai Rimskij-Korsakow
- transcription by C. Tchernow.
If you want it, just mail me. It'll be 18 pages, so even in pdf-format, it'll be rather huge.

Same goes for pskim if he doesn't have it already.

Pskim, I'm going to mail you too for your list!  

Bi, Thea
sparrow@vinden.nl

[Hands]

Dear pskim,

I would be interested in what you have. I too am interested in transcriptions. Presently working on a transcription of Die Fledermaus.

Could you send me a list?

Thanks

[ned]

Dear pskim:
Do you happen to have the Moszkowski transcription of Isolde's Liebestod from Tristan? Earl Wild recorded it. Wonderful! I like it better than the Liszt version.
Ned

[pskim]

ned, I have these two:
Wagner/Moszkowski : Idoldens Tod, #1 (586 KB)
Wagner/Moszkowski : Der Venusberg, #1 (1.32 MB)

I don't know if one of these are what you want.

[Martijn1]

I made my own paraphrase on operatic themes by bellini and rossini (la sonnambula (b), norma (b) and la donna del lago(r)) (b = bellini, r = rossini)

you can download the mp3 from

https://www.vromans.tk

as well as three sample pages from the sheetmusic.

anyone interested? I can mail the score for free

[Nemo]

hey pskim I emailed you with what i want my email is yemil@hotmail.com so you'll konw:-) and thats a great  idea, collecting them, i have some but not THAT much

[rachfan]

In Liszt's day piano transcriptions brought the larger works to people who could not otherwise attend concerts--much like CDs do today.  Thus, they served an important purpose.  When I was first studying piano in the 50s and 60s, playing transcriptions was considered anathema.  The purists became riled if you even mentioned a transcription.  If a pianist played a transcription of a Bach Chaconne, the criticism was that "There are more Bach keyboard pieces than one could hope to play in a lifetime, so why play a violin or cello piece on the piano?"  In the 80s people started to lighten up a little.  

Several years ago, Earl Wild selected some of  Rachmaninoff's Songs and created a a wonderful set of transcriptions from them.  Of course, Rachmaninoff himself transcribed a couple, "Daisies" and "Lilacs", (both of which I've played as well as his original accompianments) setting the stage for a broader effort.  I have a couple of Wild's transcriptions, "In the Silent Night" and "Floods of Spring".  Both are marvelous in capturing Rachmaninoff's idiom, and I plan to learn and play them both when I have the time.

[Remon]

Hey there!

First let me introduce myself.
I'm Remon Holsbergen from the Netherlands, I'm 16 years old.
I have played piano (classical) since I was 12 years old.
Besides school, I study at the conservatory of Arnhem.
I really love the piano and its amazing literature, and it's my dream to become a professional pianist.

I really like piano transcriptions, and therefore I'm definitely interested in virtuoso transcriptions you may have (in pdf format?).
So my question is if there is anyone who would send me some transcriptions or tell where I can find them?

Thanx!

Remon

[Remon]

By the way, excuse me for my bad english  

[Remon]

Hey, is there anyone who has the Khachaturian - Sabre Dance transcription by Cziffra and would send me this piece? (rrremon@hotmail.com)
Thanx! Remon

[krc820]

Yes.  I love virtuoso transcriptions as well and am always looking for them.  I would love to hear what you have. 
Karin

[thalbergmad]

A late entry for the Old Thread Reactivation Award of 2012.

Thal

[redbaron]

Transcriptions are generally rather wonderful. I think that the transcription of Finlandia is better than the original.

[indianajo]

Oh, wow, what a wonderful offer! I love the Liszt transcriptions for piano, say of the Beethoven symphonies and others when I hear them on the radio (very rare).  I looked at buying one, it was E42 in a printed copy from Bulgaria. Something about sending my debit card info to Bulgaria - - - I'll send a PM. I didn't even know we could do PM's on pianostreet until your generous offer.