Bach, J S - Piano Transcriptions Vol 2
• 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.”
Piano Transcriptions Volume 2
Rare Historical Recordings c.1925-1950
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)