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Edition YR

Edition YR has been created to give to a large public access to various keyboard arrangements and transcriptions and pedagogical material made by Yves Rechsteiner other the past 20 years.

Our publications are mainly devoted to the organ solo, but harpsichord pieces, 4 hands duets and arrangements for organ and string ensemble will also be available.

Our publications are available in paper or digital version. They are designed to offer the maximum confort of use for performers, avoiding unnecessary page turning.

These transcriptions have mostly be realized for musical projects that were recorded on CD. They are the result of a long process from selecting interesting pieces to transcribe, studying the composer’s style and the style of organ playing of the time, to the actual writing followed by a long use in concerts with permanent corrections and improvements.

Organ transcriptions are meant for specific styles of organ and a corresponding art de registration. Rameau is meant for a classical french instrument. Bach, Telemann, Vivaldi, Haydn and Mozart’s pieces are designed for a german tradition organ. In the XIXth century, various pieces of Schubert, Bellini, Beethoven, etc.. stay in the boundaries of an early french romantic organ of the years 1850. A more symphonic organ is needed for Saint-Saens’s Danse Macabre.

Pedagogical material related to basso continuo practice in historical style is also provided. Various realisation of pieces by Bach or Strozzi are proposed. They are also the result of years of practice during concerts.

Various translations of articles are also accessible for free in the Article.

Yves Rechsteiner

Yves Rechsteiner studied organ and harpsichord at the Geneva Conservatory, and specialised on forte-piano and basso continuo at the Schola Cantorum of Basel. 
Pricewinner of several international competitions (Genève, Prag, Bruges…), he was appointed basso continuo teacher and head of the Early Music Department at the Conservatoire Supérieur of Lyon in 1995.

Apart from his activity as a soloist or accompanist, he makes regular arrangements and transcriptions for the organ. His personal projects and recordings cover the baroque repertoire as well as the symphonic music, including collaborations with traditional or jazz players:
He records Bach on pedal-harpsichord in 2002, creates Alpbarock ensemble dedicated to swiss popular music in 2005, and is awarded “Diapason d’or” in 2010 for his Rameau arrangements. 

He is the price-winner of the price competition for transcriptions for the 6 organs of Mafra’s Basilica in 2011.

He records his organ version of Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique in 2013.

Since 2014 he is touring world-wide with percussionist Henri-Charles Caget and the guitarist Fred Maurin with Rock the Organ, a program devoted to the music of Frank Zappa and other progressiv rock bands.

The same year he became artistic director of the festival Toulouse les Orgues where he opened the music field to non-classical programs and artists.

From 2021 he is touring with contorsionist Lise Pauton a show with his transcription for organ of Bach’s Sonatas and Partita for violin.
He conceived a movable grand organ « L’Explorateur » constructed in 2022 by Tony Decap with an innovative technology allowing live control of each pipe pressure.