J S Bach - Piano Transcriptions Volume 2: Rare Historical Recordings c.1925-1950 | Naxos - Historical 8111119

J S Bach - Piano Transcriptions Volume 2: Rare Historical Recordings c.1925-1950

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Label: Naxos - Historical

Cat No: 8111119

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 2nd January 2007

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Continuing their survey of Bach transcriptions from the rich 78rpm era, Naxos Historical have assembled a historically interesting and musically rewarding listening experience. Although the paramount goals were to find brilliant performances of historic interest, they also always strove to find the best sounding recordings from the first half of the twentieth century.
 
In this second volume in the continuing Naxos series devoted to historic recordings of piano transcriptions of Bach’s music, fifteen works are expertly transformed for the modern piano, by a wide range of artists ranging from Camille Saint-Saëns to Percy Grainger.
 
The previous release in this series, (8.110658) won rave reviews in Pianist: “Naxos has worked small miracles on the sound quality….This is one of Naxos’s triumphs. If you’re still sceptical after reading this, take a leap of faith.  The rewards (on a ridiculously small outlay) are legion.”
 
Contents:
 
Sonata No. 5 in C major for Organ (2 Claviers and Pedal)
Transcribed by Victor Babin • Played by Vitya Vronsky and Victor Babin
Fantasia No. 4 in C minor 
Egon Petri • Harriet Cohen
Menuet
Egon Petri
Prelude and Fugue in E flat major (“St. Anne”) 
Ferruccio Busoni • Edwin Fisher
Vom Himmel hoch da komm’ ich her 
Walter Rummel
Allein Gott in der Höh’ sei Her’
Luigi Perrachio • Emma Boynet
“Blithe Bells” (Ramble on Bach’s Aria “Sheep May Safely Graze”)
Percy Grainger
“Little” Fugue in G minor
Nicolai Mednikoff • Ethel Bartlett and Rae Robertson
Jesu Bleibet meine Freude
Edward Rebner • Theodore Saidenberg and Edward Rebner
Siciliano (from Sonata No. 2 for Flute and Clavier Obbligato)
Guy Maier • Pierre Luboschutz and Genia Nemenoff
Organ Prelude in G minor
Alexander Siloti • Ellen Ballon
Bourrée (from Partita No.1 in B minor for Solo Violin)
Camille Saint-Saëns • Ossip Gabrilowitsch
Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme
Wilhelm Kempff
Nun kommt, der Heiden Heiland 
Alexander Kelberine • Jeanne Behrend and Alexander Kelberine
Concerto No. 5 in D minor after Vivaldi
Ray Lev

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