Brandenburg No. 3, arranged by Reger for piano four hands

[Larry Kart]

This tickles me, but then Reger often does (I know, there's medicine for that):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzHPJ0UnU18

[MomsMobley]

dead link above, this likely the recording, Trenker-Speidel on MDG, great stuff.

and of course tho' today i'd nearly always rather hear Bach on period instruments, for much of the 20th century, this wasn't possible or practible, and there are things to enjoy, learn from the best pianists-- and piano transcriptions of Busoni, Reger, some others.

more beer?

[Larry Kart]

Yep, that's the recording. I also have their recording of Reger's arrangement of the Bach Suites for Orchestra.

Edited August 12, 2015 by Larry Kart

[mikeweil]

Transcribing ensemble pieces for two keyboards was common practice in the 17th and 18th centuries already. Bach knew a printed work by Gaspard Le Roux that describes the method in detail; Francois Couperin encouraged playing his chamber works on two harpsichords. Not to mention the large number of original works for  two harpsichords, including some of the Bach family - among them is the original version of BWV 1061. One of the Brandenburgs - BWV 1051 -  can be played this way without skipping one note.

This is a nice example on two harpsichords (BWV 1061/1066/1067/1051):

Edited August 12, 2015 by mikeweil

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dead link above, this likely the recording, Trenker-Speidel on MDG, great stuff.

and of course tho' today i'd nearly always rather hear Bach on period instruments, for much of the 20th century, this wasn't possible or practible, and there are things to enjoy, learn from the best pianists-- and piano transcriptions of Busoni, Reger, some others.

more beer?

that's nice, man.