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  • Scarlatti Sonata in E Major, K. 380, Played by Leo Brouwer

    Cuban guitarist Leo Brouwer plays his transcriptions of 12 keyboard sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti in a 1974 recording. The specific piece featured is Sonata in E Major K. 380/L. 23…


  • Andrés Segovia Plays Asturias by Albeniz

    Andrés Segovia, the father of the modern classical guitar movement, transformed the perception of the instrument. He started playing at four and gave his first concert in Madrid, playing transcriptions


  • Scarlatti Sonata in A Major K. 208

    Cuban guitarist Leo Brouwer performs his transcriptions of 12 keyboard sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti in a 1974 recording. The Sonata in A major K. 208/ L. 238 (1753) is part…


  • Piano Performance of Grieg’s In the Hall of the Mountain King

    …visit http://imslp.org/wiki/Peer_Gynt_Suite_No.1,_Op.46_%28Grieg,_Edvard%29 and scroll down to ‘Scores’ then ‘Arrangements and Transcriptions.’ If you enjoy this piece, you might also like ‘March of the Trolls,’ which you can download for free…


  • Flight of the Bumblebee for Two Pianos – Rimsky-Korsakov

    Rachmaninoff, Horowitz, Cziffra, and Volodos played two piano transcriptions of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Flight of the BumbleBee….


  • The Magic Toy Shop by Leibowitz, Based on Themes by Rossini

    …of twelve-tone music. Leibowitz’s kaleidoscopic transcriptions showcased his talent, including a double orchestra rendition of Bach’s Passacaglia and Fugue in C. His personal interpretations of Classical and Romantic repertoire were…


  • Classical Guitar Performance of Rondo Alla Turca by Mozart

    …Turca rearranged for guitar by William Kanengiser. Recorded on Nokia N95 with a Yamaha CG 40 guitar. Processed with Creative X-fi Sound Blaster soundcard and software. Transcriptions available at http://dirk.meineke.free.fr/classical.html….


  • Mozart’s Jupiter Symphony, No. 41

    Rene Leibowitz (1913-1972) was a renowned conductor known for his interest in contemporary music and his colorful transcriptions. He studied with Webern and Schoenberg and wrote an analysis of twelve-tone…


  • Bach Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565

    …has gained recognition as one of the world’s best. They have recorded with Salonen on Sony Classical and have received critical acclaim for their orchestral transcriptions of J.S. Bach’s works….


  • Francisco Tárrega

    …in reviving the guitar as a solo instrument in recital and concerts. Tárrega’s legacy lives on through his compositions of approximately 78 original works and 120 transcriptions for the solo…