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Sheet Music -Arrangements

Richard Strauss - 'Zueignung'

Solo Piano

Level: Advanced/Professional

My virtuoso solo-piano transcription of Richard Strauss's well loved 'Zueignung', originally for voice and piano. The downloadable PDF product includes an extensive note about the transcription, an english translation of the german poetry, and a detailed score, with fingering suggestions.

Richard Wagner - 'Träume'

Solo Piano

Level: Intermediate

My solo-piano transcription of Richard Wagner's 'Träume', the last number in the Wesendonck Lieder, originally for voice and piano. The downloadable PDF product includes an extensive note about the transcription, an english translation of the german poetry, and a detailed score, with fingering suggestions. This arrangement also features a transitional passage, should the performer like to use this piece as a prelude to Liszt's transcription of 'Isolde's Liebestod' from Tristan und Isolde.

$20 CAD

$20 CAD

Commission an Arrangement

If there is a particular piece of music that you would like to be able to play on the piano, but there is currently no piano version of it, you are in the right place! I can create arrangements for all levels and purposes: whether you are a professional pianist who would like a virtuoso transcription of an orchestral piece to add a unique element to your concert programs, or if you are an amateur pianist who would like to be able to play through one of your favourite pieces in the privacy of your living room, I can write a piano arrangement tailored to your needs. Pricing depends on the complexity and length of the work. Click on the button below to get in touch with me.

Tosca Fantasy

Solo Piano

Level: Advanced/Professional

My Tosca Fantasy is a 20 minute concert paraphrase based on scenes from act one of Puccini's tragic opera. It is written in the grand style of operatic paraphrases by Franz Liszt. The downloadable PDF product includes an extensive introductory note about the piece, and a detailed score with fingering suggestions. The original cover art is by Madeline Kerr.

$40 CAD

Watch my video performance of the Tosca Fantasy HERE

Watch my video performance of Zueignung HERE

Albums

Richard Strauss: Piano Works

Solo Piano

This album features the three opuses of piano music published during Strauss's lifetime: the Five Pieces for Piano, op. 3, Piano Sonata in B minor, op. 5, and Stimmungsbilder (Mood Pictures), op. 9. Also included in the album is my solo piano transcription of Strauss's song 'Zueignung', op. 10 no. 1. Strauss wrote all of these works at a young age: he was sixteen when he completed op. 3 and op. 5, and nineteen when he finished op. 9. They show musical influences ranging from Beethoven to Mendelssohn, Schubert, Brahms, and Liszt. The album paints a fascinating picture of a composer 'in the making', and features works that are rarely heard.

Richard Strauss: Lieder op. 10, 15, 17

With Wallis Giunta, mezzo soprano

This album features Richard Strauss's first three published opuses of lieder. Contained in these opuses are some of Strauss's best loved lieder, including 'Zueignung', 'Die Nacht', 'Allerseelen', and 'Ständchen', but also many lesser known and seldom-performed songs that will delight listeners. Strauss is primarily known as a composer of large-scale operatic and orchestral works, but composed art songs throughout his life. His songs feature elements of true operatic drama, but also moments of tender intimacy that follow on the art song traditions of Schubert, Schumann, and Brahms. This album was recorded at the Venturing Hills Concert Studio in April 2014.

$25 CAD

$25 CAD

Beethoven, Brahms, Liszt, Wagner

Solo Piano

This is my first album, recorded in 2012. Featured are some of the standard works in the piano repertoire, including Liszt's demonic 'Après une lecture du Dante', his transcription of 'Isolde's Liebestod' from Wagner's 'Tristan und Isolde', and Brahms's symphonic Piano Sonata no. 3 in F minor. These works are paired with the little-known improvisatory Fantasie op. 77 by Beethoven, and my own transcription of the final song from Wagner's Wesendonck Lieder, 'Träume'.

$25 CAD