Neecher's Sound Clips

Here you can hear me playing the piano (both serious and not-so-serious stuff). The following selections are mostly my re-workings of other pieces. If you happen to be one of those who dislike arrangements and transcriptions and call themselves "purists," too bad. These are pure arrangements and transcriptions. :-)

At one time, a mountain climber, asked why he climbs mountains despite knowing the risks involved, replied something to the effect: "I climb mountains because they're there." I make arrangements and transcriptions of pieces for the same reason: because they're there (the pieces, that is, not the mountains. Actually, some of my works were influenced by mountains). But I digress.

Please keep in mind that, just because I do an arrangement or transcription of a work, it doesn't mean that I hate the work or think that it's "lacking." As a matter of fact, I believe that, uh, that I'm talking too much. Okay, on with the recordings:

The beginning of my transcription of Bach's Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor, BWV 582 (1:57)
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(A complete recording of this work is available on CD; click here for more information)

My arrangement of the Fugue in D Major from Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, BWV 850 (2:19)
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An excerpt from my transcription of Liszt's Psalm XIII, S. 13 (1:59)
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(A complete recording of this work is available on CD; click here for more information)

The ending of my Variations on a Theme by Czerny (1:09)
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My Variation on a Swiss Song (1:00)
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My arrangement of the opening to Grieg's Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 16 (1:06)
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The beginning of my Variations on a Japanese Air ("Kojo no Tsuki") (cellist: Rachel Galay) (1:24)
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For descriptions of the above pieces (and more), click here.

And now, a bonus recording. This is a blip from the Schumann Fantasia. For those of you who know the piece very well, yes, it is that moment in the second movement that many pianists dread. Listen to it first, then guess who's playing. If you said that I'm playing, that's only half of the answer. Click here to reveal what's really going on. No cheating!

A mystery performance of an excerpt from Schumann's Fantasia (0:33)
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