| Label: FUGA LIBERA
Catalog: FUG572
Format: CD Claudine Orloff & Burkard SpinnlerComposed by: Johann Sebastian Bach
6 Sonaten für Orgel für 2 Klavieren zu 4 Handen
The great rediscovery of J.S. Bach, which intensified unrelentlessly during the past 2 centuries, produced very different results: convincing or weird, in impeccable taste or outrageously kitsch.
Transcribers and arrangers had a field day... But the transcriptions of the organ works, meant to get the works out of the temple and bring them to the stage, played a particularly important part. The Trio-Sonatas, for a long time considered unplayable in concert, caught the attention of important personalities of the piano, from Ferdinand Thieriot, friend of Brahms, to "Mr Bach" Hermann Keller, in 20th century Germany. Rediscovered by Arthur Schanz, scientific adviser for this production and undisputed specialist of the Bach's transcriptions, these sonatas in their version or two pianos, performed here by a duo of partners on stage as in life, provide sheer pleasure to the ear and mind. They also contribute to a never ending task, dear to Fuga Libera: the reflexion on the genius of Bach.  Price: $27.98 |
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