6/11/2023 0 Comments Bach transcriptionsNevertheless, anyone wishing to play these arrangements is asked to mention my name in connection with any public performance and to introduce no substantive alterations to them, apart from standard ornamentation.īach usually transposed his own keyboard versions of music originally composed for other instruments. The results could hardly be mistaken for genuine keyboard works of Bach. Over the years I have returned occasionally to these transcriptions to improve various details. This is why I felt the need to arrange even the lute pieces, which Bach seems to have left as thinly textured keyboard scores (he apparently left to others the transcription of this music into lute tablature). My intention in every case was to create music that would be as idiomatic to the keyboard, and which would require as much virtuosity of the player, as the originals. Not long afterward I made my own transcriptions of all six of the suites for cello, following them up with arrangements of the pieces for violin, flute, and lute. As a student, probably in 1976 in Cambridge, Mass., I was fortunate to hear Gustav Leonhardt perform his harpsichord arrangement of the Sixth Cello Suite. At least some of the lute pieces, moreover, may have been intended from the beginning for performance on keyboard as an alternative. Nevertheless, they are worthy of study by players of other instruments, and Bach himself arranged several of them for keyboard instruments. The suites, sonatas, and partitas that Johann Sebastian Bach composed for solo violin, cello, flute, and lute are completely self-sufficient and require no additional harmony or accompaniment. It also includes a number of arrangements from A Bach Book for Harriet Cohen rarely heard before.Keyboard Transcriptions of Bach’s Music for Unaccompanied String and Wind Instruments On this CD, dedicated to her organist father Godfrey Hewitt, Angela Hewitt chooses her favourite Bach transcriptions by Wilhelm Kempff (including his rousing “Wachet Auf”), Eugen d’Albert (C minor Passacaglia), Myra Hess (Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring), as well as several of her own. Indeed, the practice of transcriptions was widely used by Bach himself, who freely adapted his own and others’ music for different instrumental settings. Much of Bach’s music was made domestically available via such arrangements. The Bach revival that gathered momentum during the nineteenth century created a climate for many composer-pianists to interpret his works through their own piano transcriptions, whether of chorale preludes, organ works or other instrumental music. This special disc offers a selection from the wealth of piano transcriptions of Bach’s music. Alle Menschen müssen sterben BWV643, arranged by Angela Hewitt (3’15) Passacaglia in C minor BWV582, arranged by Eugen d’Albert (11’45)ġ7. Die Seele ruht in Jesu Händen, arranged by Harold Bauer (5’29)ġ6. Sanctify us by Thy goodness, arranged by Harriet Cohen (2’28)ġ5. O Mensch, bewein dein Sünde gross BWV622, arranged by Herbert Howells (5’24)ġ4. Meine Seele erhebt den Herrn BWV648, arranged by John Ireland (1’20)ġ3. Herzlich tut mich verlangen BWV727, arranged by William Walton (2’36)ġ2. In dulci jubilo BWV729, arranged by Lord Berners (2’01)ġ1. Das alte Jahr vergangen ist BWV614, arranged by Angela Hewitt (2’40)ġ0. Wenn wir in höchsten Nöten sein BWV641, arranged by Angela Hewitt (2’29)ĩ. ‘Jesu bleibet meine Freude’ from Cantata No 147, BWV147Ĩ. Jesu, joy of man’s desiring, arranged by Myra Hess (3’50) ‘Schäfe können sicher weiden’ from Cantata No 208, BWV208ħ. Sheep may safely graze,arranged by Mary Howe (5’47) Ich ruf’ zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ BWV639, arranged by Wilhelm Kempff (2’48)Ħ. Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme BWV645, arranged by Wilhelm Kempff (4’18)ĥ. Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland BWV659, arranged by Wilhelm Kempff (5’43)Ĥ. Siciliano in G minor, arranged by Wilhelm Kempff (3’54)ģ. Sinfonia in D major, arranged by Wilhelm Kempff (4’01)Ģ. ‘A magnificent addition to both the Bach repertoire and Angela Hewitt’s artistically unparallelled survey of Bach’s keyboard compositions’ (Fanfare, USA)īEST CLASSICAL ALBUM (SOLO OR CHAMBER), JUNO AWARDS 2002, CANADAġ. A choice selection of Bach Arrangements by Wilhelm Kempff, Myra Hess, Eugen d’Albert, and many others, including Angela Hewitt herself.
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