Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer: Nelson Freire, Ferruccio Busoni, Myra Hess, Alexander Siloti
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Decca
Catalogue: 4788449
Release: 2016
Size: 1.33 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Partita No. 4 in D major, BWV828
01. 1. Overture
02. 2. Allemande
03. 3. Courante
04. 4. Aria
05. 5. Sarabande
06. 6. Menuet
07. 7. Gigue
08. Toccata in C minor, BWV911
English Suite No. 3 in G minor, BWV808
09. 1. Prélude
10. 2. Allemande
11. 3. Courante
12. 4. Sarabande
13. 5. Gavotte I – Gavotte II ou la musette
14. 6. Gigue
Chromatic Fantasia & Fugue in D minor, BWV903
15. 1. Fantasia
16. 2. Fugue
Keyboard Concerto in D minor (after Marcello), BWV974
17. 2. Andante
18. Choral: “Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ”, BWV 639 (Arr. Busoni)
19. Choral: “Komm Gott Schopfer heiliger Geist”, BWV 667 (Arr. Busoni)
20. Chorale Prelude BWV659 ‘Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland’
21. Prelude in G Minor, BWV 535 (Arr. Piano by Siloti)
Cantata BWV147 ‘Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben’
22. Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring (Arr. Piano by Kempff)
Nelson Freire brings a lifetime’s experience to his first-ever album devoted to the music of J.S Bach. It was recorded in Freire’s 70th birthday year and provides a superb overview of Bach on the piano: towering original works such as the Fourth Partita and Chromatic Fantasy & Fugue; one of Bach’s own keyboard transcriptions (the sublime slow movement of Marcello’s Oboe Concerto) plus a selection of transcriptions by Busoni, Siloti and Myra Hess.