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Arranged and played by Vyacheslav Gryaznov. Score: …Every time I return to the Valse-fantasie, either to perform it or for no reason at all, new ideas come into my mind and I can't help myself from making new corrections. Of all my transcriptions, this one I have probably the most since I first completed it in 2005. I remember the premiere. I had to perform it in Moscow just one week after I wrote it; the piece was very hard, and it was quite tough to be on time. We were celebrating the anniversary of Glinka, the Father of Russian Music, and a great-great-granddaughter of Glinka attended the concert. I clearly remember her eyes full of questions when she approached me after playing. What did you do with the music of my great-great-grand-dad? - she asked, hardly keeping herself from slapping me. Definitely, this was the kind of transcription that went very far from the original and this noble lady had every right to
