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In The Virtuoso Transcription Series Schott Music presents demanding piano transcriptions of well-known compositions. * Rigoletto. Schott Music

In that recording, notice how Say uses rubato not as a hesitation, but as a swing feel. He rushes the "and" of beat 2 and lays back on beat 4—a distinct jazz inflection that no classical pianist would intuit from the raw notes on the page.

The PDF will show a section written without bar lines. This is Say’s nod to both Paganini’s solo cadenza and a jazz musician’s improv break. While written exactly, it must sound spontaneous—a difficult feat of rubato and timing.