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Buxtehude by Arrangement: The Complete Piano Transcriptions by August Stradal | Toccata Classics TOCC0534

Buxtehude by Arrangement: The Complete Piano Transcriptions by August Stradal

£12.69

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Label: Toccata Classics

Cat No: TOCC0534

Barcode: 5060113445346

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 6th December 2019

Contents

About

Busoni’s transcriptions of Bach have long been one of the mainstays of the piano repertoire. Bach himself worshipped the music of the Danish- (or Swedish-) born Dieterich Buxtehude (1637–1707), famously walking 250 miles to Lübeck to hear him play. The Liszt student August Stradal (1860–1930) obviously shared that admiration, transcribing ten of Buxtehude’s most imposing organ works for piano, thus creating alongside ‘Bach-Busoni’ a corpus of grandiose – and virtuoso – Baroque music for the modern concert grand that has somehow remained almost entirely unknown.

Meilin Ai studied for her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in piano performance with Joseph Banowetz at the University of North Texas and is now a full-time faculty member of the Conservatory of Music of the Sichuan Normal University in China.

Reviews

... the two Chaconnes and one Passacaglia are logical and concentrated. Sonorous, imposing, but also highly agile, these remarkable pieces span the full gamut of the modern concert grand, with booming double octaves in the bass capturing the organ pedal parts, and bright-toned high flourishes in the treble.  Nicholas Kenyon
The Observer 26 January 2020

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