Schubert Unfinished Symphony - Piano Trio Arr.

[aldona]

I know there are many versions of Schubert's "Unfinished" Symphony arranged/transcribed for piano solo, piano 4-hands, two pianos, and there is a version for piano and violin (arr. Hans Sitt). Does anybody know whether there exists a version for piano trio (piano, violin, violoncello)?

If not, does anybody feel like making one (and uploading it under a CC licence as you see fit)?

I promise to restrain myself to private performances only with my friends (I don't mix in the right kind of circles to stage a public performance, and any attempt to do so would probably result in our arrest by the Music Police, or whatever government body deals with noise pollution)

I also promise to scan and upload the Sitt version for piano and violin as soon as my patients leave me alone for long enough.

Aldona

[pml]

I haven't heard of a piano trio arrangement, not to say that there might be one out there.

As for requesting one: I might possibly, if i didn't loathe doing piano reductions... so I'd probably think of adding a cello part to the Hans Sitt version, and suggesting places where the piano can leave out the lines given to the cello (second subject of the first movement is an obvious place). :-)

Philip

[aldona]

places where the piano can leave out the lines given to the cello (second subject of the first movement is an obvious place).

Earworm alert!!

(singing, or a reasonable facsimile thereof...)

"this is the sym - pho - ny,
that Schubert wrote and never finished...."

(oh well, I can think of much worse tunes to have stuck in my head for the rest of the day!)

My music theory skills do not quite extend to making piano reductions - I'm still teaching myself the finer points of harmonising things for SATB choir, and when I managed to transcribe the "Arpeggione" sonata for alto flute I had to have a cup of tea and lie down for a while because my brain cells were exhausted.

I'll definitely be leaving this one to someone who knows what they are doing.

Aldona

[pml]

I don't know that one! (Or, rather I do now... and it keeps goes around on itself like an ouroborus... arrgh)

I suppose you've heard the one that goes to the tune of Bach's little organ fugue in G minor (BWV 578)?

J.— S.— Bach——, wrote many tunes that go like this:
suites and sonatas, passions and cantatas,
masses, harpsichord and Brandenburg concertos and fugues!

There's a very good one that a friend who was doing Bernstein's Chichester Psalms sang me once, but I can't remember the exact words to it: it's to the opening melody in the first movement that casually wanders through various keys in 7/4 metre...

PML :)

[aldona]

I also promise to scan and upload the Sitt version for piano and violin as soon as my patients leave me alone for long enough.

Well, I thought I had it all scanned and uploaded...then it looks like the last page of the violin part is borked...

I'll fix that as soon as I can (although I'm having computer headaches at the moment) - it may not be until Sunday.

aldona