Virtuosic arrangements of well-known tunes

[throwawaynotreally]

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[chopinlover01]

Volodos' Alla Turca arrangment of course, but you're probably better off writing your own Show off what you can do!

[liszt1022]

Schulz/Evler's Blue Danube always comes to mind here.

[j_menz]

Stephen Hough's arrangements, especially his Rogers & Hammerstein arrangements are well worth a look.

Percy Grainger did a number of rather difficult arrangements - have a look at his Folk tune from County Derry (Danny Boy) for starters.

[visitor]

See my reply in the student board for your thread on comp tunes for one of my favs
Here is another goody. Great composer, not too different from Sam Barber and company

Warren also gave this treatment to two other Foster tuned they are published as a set I three ad this is the last of the lot. All are great!

[jhkreisler]

How about this one:

Thalberg - Fantasia on 'God Save the Queen', Op.27

[j_menz]

How about this one:

Thalberg - Fantasia on 'God Save the Queen', Op.27

Or the Beethoven Variations on it. Or on Rule Britannia.

[8_octaves]

Carnival of Venice:

Chopin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kGwRulsURI

https://imslp.org/wiki/Variations_in_A_major,_B.37_%28Chopin,_Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric%29

Gottschalk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJRKnfAs_VI

https://imslp.org/wiki/Le_Carnaval_de_Venise,_Op.89_%28Gottschalk,_Louis_Moreau%29

Cordially, 8_oct!

[symphonicdance]

Fazil Say - Paganini Jazz, Passacaglia

Pletnev - Nutcracker Suit

Hamelin - Etudes (after works by Chopin, Liszt, Scarlatti, Bach, etc.)

[throwawaynotreally]

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[stevensk]

Earl Wilds arrangements of Gershwin tunes

Hamelins arrangement of Nokia ringtune    (ok, not virtuosic but funny)

Godowsky´s arrangement of "Le Cygne" (Saint-Saens).  (not very virtuosic either)

Cziffra´s Bumble bee, Lizst´s La campanella

[8_octaves]

Hi again, what about this one?

Barere:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWpRBBGBqr0

Cherkassky:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi-StyBBa5k

Accidentally, I have the volume I of the 4 volumes "Renaissance" of Godowsky's Rameau-arrangements, which contains:

Sarabande, Rigaudon, Menuett a minor, Menuett g minor, Elegie, and Tambourin. And the originals by Rameau!

All of them are very nice, they may be not too easy, but are "handy", though. My favourites are: The sarabande, the Menuett a minor, and the Tambourin, of which the Tambourin is the most difficult, I think!

I try to attach 4 photos of my very old Schlesinger-Score, of the Tambourin, since at first glance I didn't find the "Renaissance"-Volumes on IMSLP. But maybe they are easily findable out there. Sorry for bad quality, but I haven't got a working scanner at the moment, and I think perhaps some of you have the Renaissance-volumes, too, complete.

Very cordially, 8_octaves!

[chopinlover01]

Also, Cziffra, as you mentioned, has many fantastic arrangements.
"On the Beautiful Danube":

(this one's a little long)
His famous "Flight of the Bumblebee" Arrangement:

There are many others on youtube if you wish!

[richard black]

Tico Tico arr. Hamelin.

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