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Download Booklet 111119 bk Bach2 EU 11/1/06 1:58 PM Page 8 Wilhelm KEMPFF (1895-1991) ADD ^ Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (“Sleepers, Wake!”), BWV 645 5:01 Transcribed and played by Wilhelm Kempff, pianist (Recorded in Berlin, January 1936) Great Pianists 8.111119 (Polydor 67086B (589 3/4 GS (67392B)) Jeanne BEHREND (1911-1988) and Alexander KELBERINE (1903-1940) Johann Sebastian & Nun kommt, der Heiden Heiland (“Now comes the gentiles’ Saviour”), BWV 659a 3:50 (Transcribed by Alexander Kelberine) Jeanne Behrend and Alexander Kelberine, Duo-pianists (Recorded in New York, 27th August 1936) BACH (Victor 14208-B (2), from Set M330, Side 12) Ray LEV (1912-1968) Concerto No. 5 in D minor after Vivaldi’s Opus 3, No. 11, BWV 596 12:45 Piano * I. Introduction; Fugue 6:49 ( II. Siciliana 2:42 Transcriptions ) III. Finale: Non allegro 3:14 Transcribed and played by Ray Lev, pianist (Recorded in New York, 1946) Volume 2 (Concert Hall Society Release AH (1052-2; 1053-3; 1054-1)) Egon Petri Edwin Fischer Ossip Gabrilowitsch Wilhelm Kempff Vitya Vronsky • Victor Babin Percy Grainger Previously Released: J.S. Bach Piano Transcriptions Ethel Bartlett • Rae Robertson Vol.1 (Rare Historical Recordings) Naxos Historical 8.110658 [Includes performances by Sergey Rachmaninov, Emma Boynet Alfred Cortot, Winifred Christie, Ethel Bartlett & Rae Robertson, Olga Samaroff, George Copeland, Harriet Cohen, Alexander Kelberine, Walter Gieseking, Wilhelm Backhaus, Byron Janis and Artur Rubinstein] Walter Rummel In Preparation Ray Lev J.S. Bach Piano Transcriptions, Vol. 3 Naxos Historical 8.111222 Harriet Cohen Rare Historical Recordings 1925-1950 8.111119 8 111119 bk Bach2 EU 11/1/06 1:58 PM Page 2 Great Pianists Percy GRAINGER (1882-1961) Bach Piano Transcriptions 0 “Blithe Bells” (Ramble on Bach’s Aria “Sheep May Safely Graze”; “Schafe können sicher weiden") 3:39 from Cantata BWV 208 The Russian-American violinist and composer Arcady follows her with his own 1935 recording of his Transcribed and played by Percy Grainger, pianist (Recorded in New York, October 1931) Dubensky (1890-1966) was passionate when it came to transcription of a Bach Menuet, which is in reality an (Columbia 68006-D (98759) from Set 166) the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Dubensky interplay of the three Menuets, BWV 841-843, from the considered Bach the greatest of modernists, in his Wilhelm Friedemann Bach Notebook. daring modulations, harmonies, and in the complexity One of the great interpreters of Bach’s music is Ethel BARTLETT (1896-1978) and Rae ROBERTSON (1893-1956) of his ideas. Albert Schweitzer seemed to agree, when without doubt Edwin Fischer (1886-1960). His ! “Little” Fugue in G minor, BWV 578 (Transcribed by Nicolai Mednikoff) 3:13 he wrote: “Bach’s music seems to us modern in so far as extraordinary performance of all of Bach’s 48 preludes Ethel Bartlett and Rae Robertson, duo-pianists (Recorded in London, 12th May 1947) it makes a strong effort to get beyond the natural and fugues of the “Well-Tempered Clavier” stands as (Columbia DB2371 (CA20387-1)) indefiniteness of musical sound.” Schweitzer continued, one of the great recordings of all time [Naxos Historical “The unique thing in Bach is the clearness and 8.110651-52 (Book I) and 8.110653-54 (Book II)]. A Theodore SAIDENBERG (1908-1986) and Edward REBNER (1910-1993) completeness of his musical language.” This is perhaps master of shading and expression, Fischer’s 1933 the reason why Bach’s compositions remain the most performance of Ferruccio Busoni’s transcription of @ “Jesu bleibet meine Freude” (“Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring”), 2:41 performed, the most recorded, the most studied, and the Bach’s Prelude and Fugue in E flat major (“St Anne”), from Cantata No.147, “Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben”, BWV 147 most transcribed. BWV 552, is marked by a wonderful blend of power (Transcribed by Edward Rebner) In this second volume in the continuing Naxos and delicacy of feeling. Theodore Saidenberg and Edward Rebner, duo-pianists (Recorded in Los Angeles, in 1946) series devoted to historic recordings of piano Berlin-born Walter Rummel (1887-1953) began his (Standard Program Library T-295 (SRR-2544-3)) transcriptions of Bach’s music, fifteen works are studies with his father. In 1901 his family moved to expertly transformed for the modern piano. Opening the Washington, D.C., where he continued his studies with Pierre LUBOSCHUTZ (1891-1971) and Genia NEMENOFF (1905-1989) disc is Bach’s Sonata No. 5 in C major, BWV 529, in a Samuel Monroe Fabian. By 1904 Rummel had returned transcription for two pianos, four hands by Victor Babin to Berlin to study with Leopold Godowsky. He became # Siciliano 3:21 (1908-1972). Babin transcribed all six of Bach’s sonatas an American citizen in 1908, and a year later moved to (from Sonata No. 2 in E flat major for Flute and Clavier Obbligato, BWV 1031) for two manuals and obbligato pedal. According to the Paris where he became friends with Ezra Pound and (Transcribed by Guy Maier) German music historian Johann Nikolaus Forkel, Bach Claude Debussy. During the 1920s Rummel performed Pierre Luboschutz and Genia Nemenoff, duo-pianists (Recorded in New York, 12th September 1939) intended these sonatas to serve as exercises for his in all the major capitals of Europe, specialising in (Victor 17552-B (17548-B, DO42671-I) from Set DM-724) oldest son Wilhelm Friedemann, “who, by practising single-composer programmes. Two years later he began them had to prepare himself to become the great publishing his series of 25 transcriptions of Bach’s Ellen BALLON (1898-1969) performer on the organ that he afterward was.” Babin’s organ works and cantata extracts. One of these, Vom transcription takes full advantage of both pianos to Himmel hoch da komm’ ich her, BWV 248, he recorded $ Organ Prelude in G minor, BWV 535 (Transcribed by Alexander Siloti) 3:37 emulate the writing for the organ. Vitya Vronsky (1909- in Berlin in 1930. Ellen Ballon, pianist (Recorded in London, 25th July 1950) 1992) and Victor Babin in their 1940 recording of this The Italian composer, cellist and pianist, Luigi (London LPS306 (DRL 571-1B)) work provide a joyous and enchanting beginning to this Perrachio (1883-1966) is not well known today, yet he historic recital. was an influential teacher of piano and composition at the Ossip GABRILOWITSCH (1878-1936) British pianist Harriet Cohen (1895-1967) was one Turin Conservatory (1925-1955), and left a remarkable % Bourrée 2:42 of Tobias Matthay’s most brilliant students. She was and interesting catalogue of original works. In 1931 he (from Partita No. 1 in B minor for Solo Violin, BWV 1002) (Transcribed by Camille Saint-Saëns) admired as a Bach interpreter, presenting in 1925 the published a set of six piano transcriptions of Bach’s very first all-Bach programme to be performed in organ chorale preludes. The French pianist Emma Ossip Gabrilowitsch, pianist (Recorded in New York, 13th May 1925) Queen’s Hall, London. In 1931 she was invited by the Boynet (1891-1974) (an Isidor Philipp student at the (Victor BVE-32701-2 (Unissued)) Bach Gesellschaft to perform at Bach’s birthplace in Paris Conservatoire) is heard in Perrachio’s transcription Eisenach. Her recording of the Fantasia No. 4 in C of Allein Gott in der Höh’ sei Ehr’ , BWV 711, in a rare minor, BWV 906, is her contemporary tribute to fellow recording made in New York in 1934. pianist and transcriber Egon Petri (1881-1962). Petri The Australian Percy Aldridge Grainger (1882- 8.111119 2 7 8.111119 111119 bk Bach2 EU 11/1/06 1:58 PM Page 6 1961) saw himself as an innovator. Writing about what Hollywood that he met the pianist Theodore BACH: Piano Transcriptions • Volume 2 he called “Free music”, he said: “It is my only important Saidenberg, a much sought-after accompanist and contribution to music”. Only in the last decade has there partner in chamber music. He appeared in concert with Vitya VRONSKY (1909-1992) and Victor BABIN (1908-1972) been a comprehensive assessment of Grainger’s Louis Kaufman, Erica Morini, Jascha Heifetz, Rose Sonata No. 5 in C major for Organ (2 Claviers and Pedal), BWV 529 (Transcribed by Victor Babin) 11:48 pianistic and compositional art, with numerous Bampton, Emmanuel Feuermann, Mischa Mischakoff, 1 I. Allegro 3:48 recordings of his works and reissues of some of his most Raya Garbousova, Helen Jepson, Lily Pons, Richard 2 II. Largo 5:24 important historic recordings. Grainger arranged and Tucker and Isaac Stern. A native of Baltimore, 3 III. Allegro 2:36 transcribed many of the works of J.S. Bach. Among the Maryland and a graduate of the Curtis Institute in most extraordinary of these is his Blithe Bells, which he Philadelphia, Saidenberg had also a successful career in Vitya Vronsky and Victor Babin, duo-pianists (Recorded in New York, 29th November 1940) subtitled, “Ramble on Bach’s Aria ‘Sheep May Safely radio, motion picture recording and on the concert (Victor 13634-B (13627-B, 057687) 13633-B (13628-A, 057688), and 13632-B (13628-B 057689) in Set DM-778) Graze’”. “The ramble,” wrote Grainger, “is coloured by stage. the thought that Bach, in writing the melody in thirds Pierre Luboschutz (1891-1971) and Genia Harriet COHEN (1895-1967) that open and close the number, may have aimed at Nemenoff (1905-1989) offer a sensuous and sensitive 4 Fantasia No. 4 in C minor, BWV 906 (Transcribed by Egon Petri) 3:15 giving a hint of the sound of sheep bells”. The delicious performance of Guy Maier’s transcription of the flute Harriet Cohen, pianist (Recorded in London, 22nd March 1935) jazzy moment at the end of the piece is pure gold.
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