Samba..alla Turca! has proved to be very popular, in a number of different arrangements. Unlike The Lone Ar-ranger!, which was originally conceived as a piano duet, Samba..alla Turca was written first for two pianos.

A while before Christmas 2006, I had an email from a piano-duet partnership in the USA, saying that they had made their own arrangement of the two-piano version, and which seemed to work well. They are Yelena & Vladimir Polezhayev, of Long Island,

Samba..alla Turca! has proved to be very popular, in a number of different arrangements. Unlike The Lone Ar-ranger!, which was originally conceived as a piano duet, Samba..alla Turca was written first for two pianos.

A while before Christmas 2006, I had an email from a piano-duet partnership in the USA, saying that they had made their own arrangement of the two-piano version, and which seemed to work well. They are Yelena & Vladimir Polezhayev, of Long Island, NY, performing as The Long Island Piano Duo.

Now that Mozart's birthday is officially over, I thought I would produce my own version for piano duet, particularly as the availability of two pianos is less general than a single instrument.

This new arrangement, of course, keeps most of the original two-piano design, but I have been able to add a few 'extras' which had been developed for the myriad of other arrangements since the piece was originally written, and, just at the end, where I incorporated a snatch of the master's C major sonata, I've also added a snippet of another tune which had particular significance in 2006 - I'll say no more!

Unlike the two-piano version, the primo part is not the original Mozart, completely untouched, so if you're a purist, I should give it a miss!!

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Samba with Mozart!
Who can possibly express the upbeat charm of "Samba...alla turca!"? Both scores fit together in perfect style and rhythm...I love the small additions in the primo, including the octave shifts. The secondo never gets too monotonous; it is constantly changing, but maintaining the same style. Definately worth playing...over and over again.