Florian Noack Plays His Own Piano Transcriptions

PETER TCHAIKOVSKY (1840-1893): Suite from Swan Lake, Romeo and Juliet, NIKOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV (1844-1908): Excerpts from Sheherazade, ANATOLY LYADOV (1855-1914): The Enchanted Lake, SERGEI RACHMANINOV (1873-1943): Suite from Aleko.

Description: Here's something you don't see too often: a respected independent label giving a 23-year-old pianist an entire 68-minute disc for performing his own transcriptions of Russian orchestral music. Four pieces from Swan Lake, the entire Romeo and Juliet tone-poem, three pieces from Aleko but note that Noack deals with themes from each of Sheherezade's four movements - he does not transcribe the whole huge work (21 minutes instead of the 40-44 min. which most orchestral recordings take). Florian Noack (piano).