COMPOSERS: Bach,Brahms,Janacek,Maratka,Mozart,Schoenberg,Stravinsky
LABELS: Praga Digitals
ALBUM TITLE: Arrangements or Transfigurations
WORKS: Works by Bach, Mozart, Stravinsky, Brahms, Schoenberg, Janácek, Maratka
PERFORMER: Arthur Grumiaux (violin), Wilhelm Kempff, Artur Rubenstein (piano) etc
CATALOGUE NO: PRD/DSD 350132 (hybrid CD/SACD) (1962-2016)
Fascinating juxtaposition of Bach and Brahms originals with Mozart and Schoenberg arrangements. An idiomatic and stunningly performed transcription of Mládí could easily pass muster as Janácek’s Third Quartet.
Erik Levi