Strauss/Grünfeld - Soirée de Vienne, Paraphrase on Fledermaus (Cohen) Audio + Sheet music 

A wonderful performance of a pianist undeservedly little known, thanks. His Liszt is really splendid too. And more to the theme, among living pianists I also love Buchbinder's version...

0:43 - Fledermaus Waltz 1:55 - Morgenblätter 3rd Waltz 2:28 - Künstlerleben 2nd Waltz 3:00 - Wein, Weib und Gesang 3rd Waltz (2nd part) 3:30 - Morgenblätter 4th Waltz 4:17 - Cagliostro-Walzer 1st Waltz

The chandelier lit rooms, the trailing gowns, the anguish concealed behind smiles, the velvet-trimmed furniture, the strongly scented salons and the swooning effervescent appeal of a Viennese matinee.... this is its purest evocation and form.....

charming and elegant interpretation, full of virtuosity

lush and imaginitive. I liked the liberties he took with the score!

Beautiful interpretation !

Bravo, an excellent work played with great technical fortitude by Mr Cohen - I have him playing the solo Liszt Totentanz and until hearing this performance, have always considered his playing a little on the light side...

Playful interpretation! I love it! ^_^

Excellent!! you inspire younger pianists!!

Глядя на ноты, я не представляю, как ТАКОЕ можно вообще исполнить. Пальцев не хватит! 😂👍

Wonderful!

Great piece!

Maravilhoso!!!!

Very fun.... with a Horowitzian ending!

Супер

not only fledermaus, cagliostro too ;)

Is there any one know that what is the original waltz start from 3:00? Thank you so much. I really want to know that where does it come from.

Fantastic!!

Amazing do you have this score in pdf?

La campanella at 2:58 ?

Brazilian Pianist

how about kaiserwalzer as well?

sf and he plays piano, ritenuto and he plays in tempo. what is it?

The ending is missing parts 🥲

A rather charming transcription, most winningly played. Godowsky's transcription is obviously better-written though.

Download it here: musescore.com/user/116681/scores/2857076 (you may need an account)

Compare this to the infinitely more complex paraphrase by Godowsky.

Disappointing, because Cohen is a good pianist. Now I realize this is fluff music and a performer has a wider latitude to "play" with it to his own taste, but what's the point of disobeying dynamics and tempo indications to the point where it destroys the line and phrases don't make sense. And on a basic level Cohen thinks he's being crafty by turning on the rubato, but it's obvious he just slows down when it gets hard. Not his best work. Terrific piece though, I wish he'd played it with more musical integrity.

Really bad performance.

This is a great arrangement,... Then came along a bored Cziffra

How awful. This Cohen is snuffing the music out with his twisted caricature of Strauss.