Bach Transcriptions
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Label: Australian Eloquence
Cat No: ELQ4824899
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 9th September 2016
Contents
Works
Cantata BWV147 'Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben'Flute Sonata in E flat major, BWV1031
Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV565 (arr. Busoni)
In dulci jubilo (Bach)
Chorale Prelude 'Ich ruf zu dir' (after BWV177)
Chorale Prelude 'Nun komm der Heiden Heiland' (after BWV60)
Chorale Prelude 'Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (after BWV140)
Chorale Prelude in C major 'Nun freut euch, lieben Christen gmein', BWV734 (Bach)
Preludes and Fugues (6) for organ (Bach), S462
Artists
Gordon Fergus-Thompson (piano)Works
Cantata BWV147 'Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben'Flute Sonata in E flat major, BWV1031
Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV565 (arr. Busoni)
In dulci jubilo (Bach)
Chorale Prelude 'Ich ruf zu dir' (after BWV177)
Chorale Prelude 'Nun komm der Heiden Heiland' (after BWV60)
Chorale Prelude 'Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (after BWV140)
Chorale Prelude in C major 'Nun freut euch, lieben Christen gmein', BWV734 (Bach)
Preludes and Fugues (6) for organ (Bach), S462
Artists
Gordon Fergus-Thompson (piano)About
This gem of a disc, originally released on ASV, presents more than a dozen of Bach’s pieces rearranged for the piano, from the familiar (Myra Hess’s arrangement of Jesu, joy of man’s desiring) to the quirky (Lord Berners’ arrangement of In dulci jubilo) and from the sonorously imposing (the famous Chaconne from the Second Partita in the Busoni arrangement) to the vertiginous (Busoni again, with ‘Nun freut euch, lieben Christen’). Most of the composer-arrangers on this recording were themselves professional concert pianists and, in most cases, believed that their function was not to assert their own musical personalities on top of, or alongside, Bach’s so much as to try to recreate, as well as possible, what Bach might have written had he been alive at the time when the transcriptions were made.
‘the simple and relatively literal transcriptions of ‘Jesu joy’ (Cantata No. 147), the flute Siciliano and ‘Sheep may safely graze’ [are] all played with calm grace … and at the other extreme of the art of transcription, Rachmaninov’s very free version of movements from the E major Violin Partita … in which Fergus-Thompson shows delicious delicacy.’ - Gramophone, October 1991
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