TRANSCRIPTIONS

Bach/E Petri Schafe können sicher weiden, BWV 208
Schubert/Liszt
Lieder
Auf dem Wasser zu singen, D774
Ständchen, D889
Gretchen am Spinnrade, D118
Die Forelle, D550
Erlkönig, D328
Liszt Réminiscences de Don Juan, S418
Bach/Rachmaninov Violin Partita No 3, BWV 1006
Liszt Concert-Paraphrase on Verdi’s Rigoletto, S434
J Strauss/Dohnanyi Schatz Walzer
Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue (piano solo transcription by the author)

Alessandro Taverna’s programme celebrates the art of the transcription, from Liszt’s reworking of Schubert’s Lieder and Mozart’s Don Giovanni to Egon Petri’s popular version of Bach’s aria Sheep may safely graze. The recital ends with Gershwin’s own version for piano solo of his popular Rhapsody in Blue, made three years after the work was premiered in 1924 in a concert entitled ‘an experiment in Modern Music’.