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Offline xrathos

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What Child Is This (Greensleeves) arranged by Liberace
on: November 13, 2014, 01:54:37 AM
I know this probably isn't the strongest of first posts, but I was looking for a really elegant and flashy version of Greensleeves and I found Liberace's. Does anyone happen to have the sheet music/score for it?

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Re: What Child Is This (Greensleeves) arranged by Liberace
Reply #1 on: March 03, 2015, 07:08:13 AM
I know this probably isn't the strongest of first posts, but I was looking for a really elegant and flashy version of Greensleeves and I found Liberace's. Does anyone happen to have the sheet music/score for it?

Hi,
hmm. that's not so easy, since there are -seemingly- no hints.  Let's have a closer look at the CD, of which the nice "What Child Is This"-version can be heard, under certain circumstances, at Youtube. The CD's name is:

A Liberace Christmas
Liberace; Gordon Robinson, (Arranger)
 Universal City, Calif. : MCA, [1987?] ©1973.

And it contains the desired work.

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As does this recording, but may be in another version: I quote from https://ernienotbert.blogspot.de/2011/07/christmas-in-july-2011-day-21.html  :

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. Greensleeves by Liberace And Gordon Robinson from The Magic Pianos Of Liberace And Gordon Robinson (Coral CRL 57305, Stereo, 1960).  I don't know if the dual piano treatment really adds anything to this song, but getting to share anything by Liberace is always a bonus.

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But as we can see, and as I guessed a priori, Liberace didn't arrange it himself, and to "get" the arranger was my first thought. I detected Gordon Robinson as arranger, and now the "only" problem still existing is:

If neither Robinson (nor Liberace) did publish the arrangements in printed form, then we all have to a ) rely on our ears, while trying to write down the heard notes for ourselves, or b ) contact one of the sheetmusic-trade-sites on the web ( but some have closed or moved, as I saw recently ). Or c ) contact someone who can write it down and then send the score.

The Liberace-Museum, it seems, has closed.  :( ;)

Greetings from 8_octaves!
"Never be afraid to play before an artist.
The artist listens for that which is well done,
the person who knows nothing listens for the faults." (T. Carreño, quoting her 2nd teacher, Gottschalk.)

Offline pytheamateur

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Re: What Child Is This (Greensleeves) arranged by Liberace
Reply #2 on: July 11, 2015, 05:09:53 PM
There is s person on the Internet who writes down the music of unpublished piano arrangements by Volodos, e.g Turkish March and the slow movement of Rachmaninoff's cello sonatas.  Anyone remember what his name is? You might contact him if you think you can motivate him to take this on.
Beethoven - Sonata in C sharp minor, Op 27 No 12
Chopin - Fantasie Impromptu, Nocturn in C sharp minor, Op post
Brahms - Op 118, Nos 2 & 3

Offline dcstudio

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Re: What Child Is This (Greensleeves) arranged by Liberace
Reply #3 on: July 15, 2015, 12:07:50 AM


lol...working on a dueling piano's type act ---

my stage name will be

Libby Racci

if I transcribe it I will post it.
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