In this video, American pianist Andrew Tyson performs the Gavotte from Bach’s Violin Partita No. 3, arranged for solo piano by Rachmaninoff in 1933. Tyson follows Rachmaninoff’s lead and uses the existing music as a canvas for ingenious voicings and unexpected expressive nuances.

This uninhibited composer-arranger mindset associates Tyson with Golden Era pianists such as Ignaz Friedman, who had a similarly unstinting embrace of creative liberty while still respecting the essential spirit of the composition.