The Lark by Mikhail Glinka/Mily Balakirev
by Scott
In some ways, it is more challenging to arrange a solo work for 4-hands, than a work featuring multiple instruments reduced down to 4-hands. As an arranger, I don’t want to impose too many new ideas onto an original solo work, but at the same time would like to make use as much as possible of all of our hands! I didn’t want to just put the solo version’s left hand part in the secondo and right hand part in the primo throughout the piece, so I sometimes had to try out different writing techniques to keep things interesting. Here are some examples: