(Dis)Arrangements 17: Brahms

In 1862 Brahms tried his hand at his own string quintet. Unsatisfied with the format, he refashioned the work for two pianos before finally transforming it into a piano quintet.

(Dis)Arrangements 2: Goldberg Fever

A recent check disclosed 228 available recordings of Bach’s Goldberg Variations. Most are for a single keyboard as intended, but there are also arrangements and transcriptions. Here’s a random scattering of BWV 988 arrangements and digressions.

Label Report: NMC Recordings

If anything NMC lately has issued threatens to become a best-seller, it’s Arianna…