Tag: J. Strauss II

  • PROGRAM NOTES: BENJAMIN GROSVENOR

    PROGRAM NOTES: BENJAMIN GROSVENOR

    J. S. Bach: Five transcriptions Benjamin Grosvenor opens his program with a series of piano transcriptions, a genre that was wildly popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, then went out of fashion, and is now making something of a comeback. Transcription – the transferal from one medium to another – is as…