Undaunted by its challenges, he played three Rachmaninoff encores, including a warp-speed rendition of the composer's arrangement of Rimsky-Korsakov's "Flight of the Bumble Bee".
The program also includes Mozart's Piano Concerto in E flat, K. 449, in the composer's arrangement for piano and string quartet, and Schubert's lovely Rondo in A for Violin and String Quartet.
Composer Eric Shimelonis's arrangement of Holst's music will be played live in this mash-up of astronomy and art.
He proved equally arresting in Mr. Kline's "Zippo Songs," in the composer's new arrangement for string quintet, piano and percussion.
The best known of these pieces are the two suites, from 1909 and 1911, and the Hammersmith Prelude and Scherzo from 20 years later, which is more familiar in the composer's own arrangement for full orchestra.
The program begins with the delectable trio in E flat by Haydn, proceeds to a fascinating trio in the same key by Beethoven (which is actually the composer's own arrangement of the Septet), and concludes with the rich-textured "Dumky" Trio of Antonin Dvorak.
For one thing, Byrd's version swings--the score, assembled by jazz composer-conductor David Berger, incorporates Duke Ellington's arrangement of Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker" Suite, with additions by Billy Strayhorn and Berger, who also conducts local jazz orchestras for each engagement on the tour (the UCLA Jazz Ensemble at the Wiltern).
Paul Schwartz's arrangement of the composer's melodically ripe "Girl Hunt Ballet" from the 1953 movie musical "The Band Wagon" twinkled with Gershwinesque intimations of the New York skyline.
For this performance, the Philharmonia will use Oundjian's arrangement of the composer's ballet score, whereas most orchestras perform one of the three concert suites that Prokofiev created.
67,000 young people across the world took part in 2013's communal singing; such was its success that for 2014 Aldeburgh Music commissioned a brand-new songbook from nine contemporary composers, with Britten's arrangements of folk songs a starting point.
Four of the game's tracks were released as part of Drammatica: The Very Best Works of Yoko Shimomura, an album of arrangements highlighting the composer's work: "Legend of MANA ~Title Theme~", "Hometown Domina", "Colored Earth", and "Bejeweled City Ruined".
