The Piano Transcriptions (two hands) by Vincent Stoks

Vincent Stoks lives in Australia and his fascination with the piano transcriptions of Anton Bruckner's symphonies has led him to create transcriptions of Symphonies 4, 7 and 9 that present as much orchestral color as possible. He writes: My background is that I am a (retired) theoretical physicist, born in the Netherlands, who has played the piano all my life as a hobby. After hearing the Liszt transcription of Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony years ago, I got interested in other symphony transcriptions. I came across the Bruckner ones and decided to start to modify the ones that Stradal didn't do (4, 7, 9) in the hope that I could make them equally rich in orchestral detail. With no disregard to the various attempts that have been made, it is my personal opinion that none of the Finales for Symphony 9 give me the full "Bruckner feel", so I have restricted myself to the 3 traditional movements. Other projects I have been working on are transcriptions of various romantic piano concertos for solo piano, again including as much orchestral detail as possible. I plan to upload them to the IMSLP website at some point in the future. The scores are highly advanced as I followed Stradal's examples in trying to get as much orchestral information in there while still being "playable" with only two hands. As a consequence, people might only be able to play certain passages; but I found that even just reading along is already very rewarding in appreciating Bruckner's genius and skill. The generated MIDI has no dynamics other than accents and I have only roughly adjusted changes in tempo (incidentally this is also the reason that tremolos are not sounded-out specifically - that would only swamp the melody). I haven't indicated different instruments specifically, but I mostly did follow their individual voices, which is the reason that the score might look a bit convoluted in some places. Doing it this way these individual voices also seem to be more clearly defined when listening to the MIDI. Note that Symphony No.9 has an extra PDF for pages 45-46 where I kept the violins as in the original orchestral score but which makes it incredibly more difficult to play. A really ambitious player can swap those 2 pages with what is in the main file. The .zip files below contain the full scores and corresponding MIDI files. My thanks to Vincent Stoks for making this material available.