EXPANDING THE REPERTOIRE
Piano Transcriptions
“The process of making a transcription is akin to the most consuming and passionate process of taming a wild animal. You never know if it will follow you completely, if you would be able to domesticate it and conquer its unpredictable character. The same is true with a “wild” piece of music. You have to discover an approach to it before you can tell that it will let you possess it – meaning that all of its stunning, heartbreaking and seemingly impossible episodes would let you portray them on the keyboard. And when you finally find that all of it is possible, you are the happiest creature in the world.”
© Asiya Korepanova
Transcriptions For Piano Solo: Large Works
Sergey Rachmaninoff: Cello Sonata, Op. 19
Over her career, the Cello Sonata has become one of Asiya’s favorite chamber pieces to perform. Her transcription, hailed as ‘a miraculous achievement’ by the New York Classical Review, is a heartfelt tribute to one of her favorite composers. It is a significant contribution to the solo piano repertoire and the first complete transcription of this Sonata ever made.
Peter Tchaikovsky: Manfred Symphony
Asiya premiered her piano transcription of the complete Manfred Symphony on January 30, 2023 in New York City.
Modest Mussorgsky: Songs And Dances Of Death
In 2017, Asiya has written the transcription of No. 2, the Serenade, for her Midnight Pieces series. In 2019, she completed the whole set of four songs to commemorate the 180th anniversary of Mussorgsky's birth, and premiered it at the Rockefeller University’s Tri-I noon Recital Series. The cycle was recorded and filmed in 2024 on a 1882 'Centennial-D' Steinway&Sons Grand Piano in New York City.
Transcriptions For Piano Solo: Small Works
Johann Sebastian Bach: Christmas Oratorio - Opening Choir
Johann Sebastian Bach: Christmas Oratorio - Sinfonia
Leonard Bernstein: 'Maria' from 'West Side Story'
W.A. Mozart: Queen of The Night Aria from 'Magic Flute'
Amy Beach: 'Extase' Art Song
Peter Tchaikovsky: Rose Adagio from 'Sleeping Beauty'
Peter Tchaikovsky: 'If Only I Had Known' Art Song
Cesar Franck: 'Le Mariage Des Roses' Art Song
Alban Berg: 'Liebesode' from Sieben Frühe Lieder
Anton Bruckner: Scherzo from Second Symphony
Transcriptions For One Piano, 4-6 Hands
Heitor Villa-Lobos: 'Air' For 1 Piano, 4 Hands
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