JS Bach - Organ Transcriptions: Orchestral Suites 2 & 3, Chaconne
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 96846
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 10th November 2023
Contents
Works
Orchestral Suite no.2 in B minor, BWV1067 (arr. for organ)Orchestral Suite no.3 in D major, BWV1068 (arr. for organ)
Partita for solo violin no.2 in D minor, BWV1004
Artists
Wolfgang Rubsam (organ)Works
Orchestral Suite no.2 in B minor, BWV1067 (arr. for organ)Orchestral Suite no.3 in D major, BWV1068 (arr. for organ)
Partita for solo violin no.2 in D minor, BWV1004
Artists
Wolfgang Rubsam (organ)About
Rübsam now returns to the organ, with new transcriptions and recordings of two Orchestral Suites and Chaconne from the D minor Partita for solo violin. While the Chaconne has attracted transcribers and arrangers ever since the 19th century, drawn magnetically to its evolving variations on a ground bass which accumulate an emotional power unusual even for Bach, the Orchestral Suites are much less often encountered outside their original garb. Yet we can be sure that Bach himself would have embraced Rübsam’s idea with enthusiasm. The Suites themselves are compilations of dances, probably not all originally designed for their eventual destination as high-class entertainment music for the concert series at Café Zimmermann in Leipzig, and Bach repurposed some of their movements as sinfonias and even choruses for his church cantatas.
As in his fairly free transcription of the Chaconne, Rübsam has made full use of the instrument at his disposal, a magnificent Casavant instrument (1998) at the Church of St Louis, in St Paul, Minnesota. The booklet includes a full disposition for the organ as well as an essay introducing both the works and Rübsam’s uniquely imaginative approach to them. ‘If the sound of the lute-harpsichord highlights Bach’s debt to French lute music, especially in the First Prelude, the instrument clarifies that homage while Rübsam’s interpretation transcends it’ (Fanfare, November 2018, The Well-Tempered Clavier, 96750).
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