CLEVELAND, Ohio – A small but wildly enthusiastic crowd showed up at Severance Music Center on Friday to hear a recital by Russian pianist Polina Osetinskaya that marked her Cleveland debut and that of Domus Virtuosa, a new artist agency and production initiative founded by Clevelander Svetlana Stolyarova.

Not your usual piano recital, Osetinskaya’s program was entirely devoted to transcriptions — or arrangements — of music by Johann Sebastian Bach and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

The act of repurposing existing music for different performing forces can have a range of motivations from the practical to the aesthetic. Bach needed material for his Leipzig University students to perform at Zimmermann’s Coffee House. Dance companies preparing for performances with orchestra need live rehearsal

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