plays Piano Transcriptions  LISZT, BACH, FRANCK, GERSHWIN, RACHMANINOFF Z6802 “Transcriptions have always fascinated me. They are very personal and end up telling us more about artists-composers than we would suspect at first glance. Have you ever been curious about what other artist's paintings might hang on David Hockney's walls, or what movie would play on a Tuesday night in Robert Redford's living room? I think about transcriptions the same way. They draw you into the intimacy of a musician's personal life and allow you to experience the kind of music they might play when they are alone, show you what piece fascinates them enough to compel them to add their own touch to it, or what work in their own opus is worth rescoring without discarding the original. A transcription is a musical homage from one artist to another, whether it comes a century or so later (Bach/Bauer) or whether it is a testimony of a deep friendship between contemporaries (Rachmaninoff/Kreisler). But it always starts with true affinity for the original, an affinity that inspires the composer to write a “new” work that can vary from a faithful interpretation to a fantasy that just vaguely references the original. …” Gabriela Imreh
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