What is your favorite piano transcription?

[houseofblackleaves]

Like everyone else, there are too many... this moment:

Gounod/Liszt - Valse de Faust

In my opinion, the ultimate waltz outside of Chopin. 

Other random ones...

Don Juan
Bach's concerto for four pianos off of Vivaldi's concerto for four violins

some more random Liszt...........................


maybe some Cziffra....... GAR to many.

Bach/Busoni Chaccone is okay, then again most of Busoni's revisions are pretty decent for the most part.

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Bellini/Liszt - Reminiscences de Norma
Wagner/Liszt - Tannhauser Overture
Bellini/Thalberg - Casta Diva from Norma
Bach/Busoni - Chaconne

Most of the Bach Chorales as transcribed by Busoni.

[arensky]

Reminiscenes of Norma, Bellini-Liszt.

[jre58591]

bellini-liszt réminiscences de norma
wagner-liszt isoldens liebestod
bach-sorabji chromatic fantasia
chopin-sorabji pastiche on the minute waltz
bizet-sorabji pastiche on the habanera from carmen
bach-busoni chaconne in d minor

many many others i forgot...

[lau]

didn't chopin make a transcription of the turkish march? or someone else besides volodos.

[etudes]

Koji schubert rulez! 

[thalbergmad]

didn't chopin make a transcription of the turkish march? or someone else besides volodos.

Pintel, Brubeck and even Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen, but i don't think Chopin did.

Thal

[christiaan]

Wagner-Liszt Isolends Liebestod
Wagner-Liszt Tannhauser Overture

[bachundrach]

Good Grief!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No one has mentioned the Feinberg transcription of the Scherzo from Tchaikovskii's 6th Symphony?

Come on already - It's a ripsnortin' swashbuckler

[thalbergmad]

My favourite is and always will be the Tausig - Weber - Invitation to the Dance.

Thal

[klavierkonzerte]

one of my all time favorites is   earl wild/tachaikovsky  pas de quatre
the transcription is very masterfull.

and one of my favorites, for now, is murdochs arrangment of bach trascription of a concerto by vivaldi.
it's a taxing piece, musically and technically, and very rewarding.
i loved this piece instantly when i listened to samples from hyperions recording.

[prongated]

...this one;

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[tengstrand]

Here is a brand new transcription we just perormed by Paul Henning: Franz Waxman's "Ride of the Cossacks" for two pianos. This is a soundtrack from a weird Hollywood production, the movie Taras Bulba, If you see Tony Curtis in there, man does he look wrong in those cossack clothes!

Original soundtrack:

The transcription:

It was real hard to learn, but once you got it, it's so much fun!

Hope you enjoy it!
Per

[drjames]

I like Angela Hewitt's arangement of Bach's Alle Menschen mussen sterben. It is found on her CD of Bach arrangements.  It is supposed to be a funeral march but to me it sounds like a wedding march.  Several years ago I sent an e-mail to some Angela Hewitt websight inquiring about the availabilty of her transcriptions.  I received a reply from her manager(?) saying that they may be available in a few years.  I haven't checked since.  Jim.

[vuvais]

La Campanella by Franz Liszt
The Trout - transcription of Schubert's quintet by Liszt

[jehangircama]

Pabst: Eugene Onegin

one of my favourite pieces- was just looking at the sheet music, but the file is very cluttered with fingerings and other written markings. would you have a good pdf of this or do you know where I could buy it from? thanks

[richard black]

Blimey, that's a tough one! I think I'll have to plump for Ronald Stevenson's 'Peter Grimes Fantasy' (yes, not exactly a transcription but then neither are most of the other popular choices!), as much for sentimental reasons as musical ones - there are lots of others I'd hate to be parted from.

In terms of absolutely strict transcriptions, I'd like to put in a word for the vocal score of Wagner's 'Ring', the original Karl Klindworth version (not the 'erleichtete' one currently in print from Schott and Schirmer), which is effectively a top-notch, 14-hour-long, concert transcription. And yes, I've played it all.

[ronde_des_sylphes]

Pabst Eugene Onegin

one of my favourite pieces- was just looking at the sheet music, but the file is very cluttered with fingerings and other written markings. would you have a good pdf of this or do you know where I could buy it from? thanks

Sounds like exactly the same pdf that I have..

[retrouvailles]

I'll add to my earlier list many of the Ronald Stevenson transcriptions that I have heard. He is the new Busoni or Liszt, it seems, when it comes to transcriptions.

[pita bread]

In terms of absolutely strict transcriptions, I'd like to put in a word for the vocal score of Wagner's 'Ring', the original Karl Klindworth version (not the 'erleichtete' one currently in print from Schott and Schirmer), which is effectively a top-notch, 14-hour-long, concert transcription. And yes, I've played it all.

Where can you get this original edition? (I'm very interested in transcriptions from Wagner's later operas) And what edition would you recommend for the vocal score of Wagner's Tristan and Isolde? I've been wanting to learn both the Prelude and the Liebestod but cannot find a good transcription of the Prelude.

[pita bread]

And oh yeah, my favorites in no particular order:

Berg/Stevenson - Weingenlied aus Wozzek
Ravel - La Valse
Stravinsky - Petrouchka
Stravinsky/Agosti - Firebird Suite
Wagner/Busoni - Funeral March from Gotterdammerung
Wagner/Gould - Dawn and Siegfried's Rhein Journey from Gotterdammerung
Wagner/Liszt - Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde

[richard black]

The Klindworth Wagner I mentioned is long out of print (since 1899) so you'll have to rely on second-hand vendors or libraries, except for Die Walküre which was reprinted by Könemann Musik a few years ago and is still to be found in shops - grey and blue cover. It's very cheap too!

There's no perfect piano score of Tristan, though there is a ridiculous number of different transcriptions in existence. The most interesting historically is by Hans von Bülow, which was published by Brietkopf shortly after the opera was written, but musically it's disappointing. Breitkopf subsequently published two, or possibly even three, other vocal scores including one by Otto Singer who's very reliable, though I've never got my hands on a copy. The usual recommendation is the Peters edition, done partly by Felix Mottl and the rest by Gustav Kogel, which is frankly pretty good.

With the Tristan Prelude I can't really help as I've almost never played it, but I've done the Liebestod so many times (for singers in competitions, mostly) that I ended up making my own version, which I'll post here some time when I've the energy to scan it. I realised years ago that the Liszt concert transcription is usable as an accompaniment since the voice is basically never melodic except when it's doubled in the orchestra, but in places the Liszt is over the top for that duty, so I did a scissors and glue job between Liszt, Kogel and Bülow which works reasonably well.

By the way, that Wagner/Busoni you mention was disowned by Busoni later in life. He did it when quite young, probably for the money, and later took a passionate displike to Wagner as both man and musician.

[pita bread]

By the way, that Wagner/Busoni you mention was disowned by Busoni later in life. He did it when quite young, probably for the money, and later took a passionate displike to Wagner as both man and musician.

But the transcription is so good!

[amelialw]

petrushka. I listened to it every single day till I could'nt stand it anymore...lol, that was about 2 weeks ago and I still can't listen to it, had to take it out of my mp3 player

[richard black]

Just thought of another favourite of mine - Grainger's 'Ramble on themes from the last love duet in Strauss's 'Der Rosenkavalier''.

[storyseller]

Martucci : La forza del destino

[klavierkonzerte]

one of my favorite piano transcription is kabalevsky/bach  dorian toccata and fugue
i just recently found out about it and i kind of obssesed with it at the moment.