TRANSCRIPTIONS BY BACH FULL

The result adds blood and thunder to what was already a spine-tingling piece of music.

TRANSCRIPTIONS BY BACH FULL

Probably one of the most famous pieces of organ music in the world, Bach’s mighty Toccata and Fugue was transcribed for full orchestra in the 1920s by Leopold Stokowski. Bach Piano Transcriptions 1 - Ferruccio Busoni Nikolai Demidenko (piano) 2 - Ferruccio Busoni Nikolai Demidenko (piano) 3 - Friedman, Grainger & Murdoch. The best recordings of JS Bach's well tempered clavier.Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic. The music begins in a mood of resigned serenity that builds into something like majestic awe, as if the listener were walking around a deep, still lake to the foot of a towering mountain. Discover Bach Transcriptions by Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen released in 2000. I hadn’t come across the Bohemian musician before, but his thoughtful take on Bach seems to tap into its very essence. Recorded and processed in Phase 4 Stereo by Decca Records. (Stoky was 90 at the time of this recording.) Recorded at the House of Artists in Prague on September 7 & 8, 1972. Stokowski conducts the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. But there is one particular piece that I keep coming back to: August Stradal’s arrangement of the Andante from JS Bach’s Organ (or Trio) Sonata No. Orchestral transcriptions of Bach's works by Leopold Stokowski. I loved everything about Vikingur Olafsson’s recent Bach disc for Deutsche Grammophon, and I clearly wasn’t alone as it was named Recording of the Year at our Awards. Apparently, to Stokowski, Bach was a chubby German burgher with a penchant for flashy clothes and cheap jewelry: his transcription of the Toccata is overdressed, fat, and slow. The best recordings of Bach's Brandenburg concertosĪugust Stradal – Trio Sonata No. Sebastian Bach found its way to prominence through composers pens during the Romantic era, often in the form of transcriptions for solo piano recitals. As you might expect, the disc starts with the most (in)famous Bach transcription of all time: the Stokowski Toccata and Fugue in D minor.Mix yourself a caipirinha, sit in the sun… and enjoy! Jeremy Pound, deputy editor It’s all infectiously buoyant stuff, full of South American sunshine.

6 all feature on the album, it’s the opening Italian Concerto in F that is, for me, the pick of the bunch. Naxos Stokowski: Bach Transcriptions 2 is a fitting homage from Serebrier to his mentor and, by virtue of its program, may prove more generally appealing than. Though ingenious arrangements of works such as the Double Violin Concerto in D minor and Brandenburg Concerto No. Here you have well-known JSB works combined with the choro, a Brazilian instrumental music style that dates back to the mid-19th century – instruments such as the mandolin, viola caipira and cavaquinho all join in the fun here. Camerata Brasil – Italian Concerto in F, BWV 971 - AllegroĬamerata Brasil’s Bach in Brazil album provided the soundtrack to my summer in 2000, the year of its release.

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