– PETER SZENDY

I love them more than all the others, the arrangers. The ones who sign their names inside the work, and don’t hesitate to set their name down next to the author’s. Blunty adding their surname by means of a hyphen: Beethoven-Liszt (for a piano version of the nine symphonies), Bach-Webern (for an orchestration of the ricercare in the Musical Offering), Brahms-Schoenberg, Schubert-Berio, who else-in short, a whole mass of double signatures. Now, it seems to me that what arrangers are signing is above all a listening. (LISTEN: A HISTORY OF OUR EARS)