Our new year begins with a truly upbeat version of the 2nd movement of Beethoven's Symphony No,7

In fact, when Beethoven's Seventh Symphony was published, piano reductions, string quartet arrrangements etc. were made available to the reader, just in order to boost sales of the new work.

Speaking of transcription of symphonies (especially Beethoven's monumental works), one must pay tribute to Liszt, whose pioneering work was followed by Earl Wild, Fazil Say, Vlodos and here by the award-winning composer-arranger-pianist, Joachim Horsley.