David Stewart wrote:

>What a stupid thing to do!  What is the point in arranging something for a
>medium which only augments the experience the person playing it?
>
>Berlioz was one of the best if not THE best orchestrater ever.  Surely you
>only lose some of the art by playing it on a piano.

Not necessarily if you were a Liszt.  Anyway, in an age wans radio,
phonographs, tape players, or CD's piano transcriptions were often the best
access to classical works...if, as was more likely then than now, you were
able to play them.

Walter Meyer