Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer: Piers Lane
Format: FLAC (tracks+cue)
Label: Hyperion
Catalogue: CDA67709
Release: 2010
Size: 254 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Passacaglia in C minor, BWV582
Fantasia & Fugue in C minor, BWV537
02. I. Prelude
03. II. Fugue
Prelude & Fugue in G major, BWV541
04. I. Prelude
05. II. Fugue
Toccata & Fugue in F major, BWV540
06. I. Prelude
07. II. Fugue
Prelude & Fugue in A major, BWV536
08. I. Prelude
09. II. Fugue
Prelude & Fugue in F minor, BWV534
10. I. Prelude
11. II. Fugue
Toccata & Fugue in D minor, BWV538 ‘Dorian’
12. I. Prelude
13. II. Fugue
Prelude & Fugue in D major, BWV532
14. I. Prelude
15. II. Fugue
Hyperion’s Bach Piano Transcriptions series reaches volume 8, and continues to surprise and delight with a disc containing many first recordings. The controversial figure of Eugen d’Albert was one of the greatest pianists of his day and, although largely forgotten now, a composer of genuinely international renown. A sometime student at the Royal College of Music, d’Albert rejected his British upbringing and nailed his colours to the mast of German music. Bach was an important part of his performing career—and like other great nineteeth-century pianists, d’Albert saw in the monumental scale of the organ works an opportunity to synthesize the works of the Master with the expanded capabilities of the modern piano.