Richard Pennycuick wrote:

>This reminded me of a 1960 Parliament (Hungaroton original) LP containing
>another orchestral version.  In the notes, by Herbert Glass (who seemed to
>write all Parliament's notes): "After Liszt's death, his pupil Richard
>Burmeister, himself a minor composer and one of the leading peripatetic
>virtuosi of the turn of the century, constructed a vehicle for himself by
>re-arranging the two-piano version for a single piano and orchestra..."

Liszt student Alexander Siloti (1863-1945) did much the same thing, turning
the Concerto Pathetique into a work for solo piano, period.  It has never
been published, but was performed by Siloti on a number of occasions in St
Petersburg and prior to his leaving Russia in 1919.

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