Edward Johnson writes… Herewith some December 1st suggestions, a waltz by Tchaikovsky from his “The Seasons, Opus 37a” in its original form for piano and also as arranged.
Piano solo, played by Seong-Jin Cho, playing in the 14th International Tchaikovsky Competition, 2011, in the Moscow Conservatory Great Hall when he was 17 years old. …
Arranged for Piano Trio by Alexander Goedicke and played by members of the Nouvelle Philharmonie, Minsk, Belarus in 2016. …
For Piano and Orchestra, played and arranged by Georgii Cherkin in the Bulgaria Hall, Sofia, in 2010. …
Arranged for orchestra by Alexander Gauk with Evgeny Svetlanov conducting the USSR Symphony Orchestra in a televised performance from Moscow in 1972. …
Note: Already in the Column from last year so not obligatory …
Arranged for orchestra by David Matthews and conducted by Carl Davis, from the 1991 first performance of Matthews’s arrangements, played by the Norddeutsche Rundfunk Orchestra. …
Anderson additions…
Charles Tomlinson Griffes’s A Winter Landscape, recorded by Garrick Ohlsson for Hyperion…
Another Anderson, Leroy, his Sleigh Ride (recorded 1950 by the composer & his orchestra)…