Tetris theme re-imagined as a collection of variations written in the style of Chopin, Liszt, Alkan, Rachmaninov and Thalberg. Live encore.

Korobeiniki Fantasy (19th century Tetris - live encore)

Samples from "A Night at the Opera", available from http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/andrewwright and featuring the world premiere commercial recording of Giuseppe Martucci's Fantasy on Verdi's La Forza del Destino.

The CD is also available from Divine Art Records under the title "The Operatic Pianist" http://www.divine-art.co.uk/CD/25113info.htm catalogue number DDA25113

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Audio samples from my CD of transcriptions

Gyorgy Cziffra's crazy improvisation/paraphrase on Il Trovatore. Performance by myself, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2009. My thanks are due to Rafael Orth for having somehow notated the original Cziffra performance.

Verdi-Cziffra Il Trovatore (live)

Live recording, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2009. Thalberg's variations on Moses' prayer from the opera Moses in Egypt.

Rossini-Thalberg Dal tuo stellato soglio (live, 2009)

Obscure 19th century piano paraphrase on Verdi

Alfred Jaell Rapsody sur La Traviata

Setting of Casta Diva - extract taken from studio recording of A. Jaell's Reminiscences de Norma, Dundee April 2016.

Alfred Jaell Casta Diva

Thalberg variations on Moses' Prayer from Rossini's Moses in Egypt. Extract from recital commemorating Kenneth van Barthold.

Kenneth van Barthold commemorative recital

Rossini-Thalberg Dal tuo stellato soglio (2016)

Conclusion of warmup, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017.

Warmup improvisation

Live recording, remastered and edited for album release :)
Arrangement by myself - variations in the style of different composers.

Tetris Fantasy

Live recital recording of my paraphrase on themes from Bellini's La Sonnambula. The fantasy is very much in the style of Liszt and Thalberg.

Bellini-Wright Fantasy on La Sonnambula

The conclusion of my improvised piano sonata..
A march to Hell.
Think of Dante and Bosch.

Marche à l'enfer

The third movement of my improvised piano sonata. A brief interlude before the storm!

Dies Irae

Intermezzo

Improvisation on the Dies Irae mediaeval theme

Dies Irae - Epilogue

A short, quirky piece from a set of improvised preludes for piano.

Nine Preludes No 1 - Goblins

A collection of goblins, elves, fairies and pixies steal a train and run off in the night.

Train des lutins

Pianist specialising in 19th century transcriptions and paraphrases and obscure romantic repertoire.
Studio CD and digital downloads available from https://divineartrecords.com/recording/the-operatic-pianist/
https://divineartrecords.com/recording/operatic-pianist-volume-two/
and https://open.spotify.com/album/5WlQ5D6W9n0vD99ZoDN8S9

Andrew Wright, piano

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