The Bach piano music you will hear on this album was originally composed for harpsichord, clavichord, lute-harpsichord, violin and orchestras. Johann Sebastian Bach wrote compositions for single instruments, duets and small ensembles.
During Bach’s lifetime, he was known as a virtuoso organist and pedagogue; connoisseurs and specialist audiences especially appreciated his keyboard music. After the composer’s death, some of his works were lost. His students, admirers and family members preserved and popularized Bach’s legacy.
At the beginning of the 19th century, Johann Nikolaus Forkel published the first biography of Bach, making him known to a wide public. In the following years, all of Bach’s surviving works were published, and after Felix Mendelssohn’s performance of the St. Matthew Passion in 1829, the period of Bach’s revival began. He was recognized as the national German composer, and for 200 years to the present, his works have been performed by the most famous musicians around the world.
Tracklist
J. S. Bach:
- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Aria – Katya Kramer-Lapin
- The Well-Tempered Clavier: Book 1, BWV 846-869: I. Prelude in C Major, BWV 846 – Katya Kramer-Lapin
- 6 Violin Sonatas and Partitas, BWV 1001-1006: Sonata No. 2 in A minor, BWV 1003: III. Andante (Transcr. for Piano by Alexander Siloti) – Katya Kramer-Lapin
- Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1068: II. Air (Transcr. for Piano by Alexander Siloti) – Katya Kramer-Lapin
- Chaconne in D Minor (After Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004 by J.S. Bach) – Misha Fomin
- Keyboard Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, BWV 1052: I. Allegro – Konstantin Lifschitz
- Keyboard Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, BWV 1052: II. Adagio – Konstantin Lifschitz
- Keyboard Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, BWV 1052: III. Allegro – Konstantin Lifschitz
- Prelude and Fugue in D Major, BWV 532 (Transcr. for Piano by Ferruccio Busoni) – Vladislav Mikhalchuk
- Concerto for 2 Keyboards in C Minor, BWV 1060: I. Allegro – Alexander Malofeev & Boris Berezovsky
- Concerto for 2 Keyboards in C Minor, BWV 1060: II. Largo ovvero Adagio – Alexander Malofeev & Boris Berezovsky
- Concerto for 2 Keyboards in C Minor, BWV 1060: III. Allegro – Alexander Malofeev & Boris Berezovsky
- Prelude and Fugue C-Sharp Minor, BWV 849: I. Praeludium – Vladislav Mikhalchuk
- Prelude and Fugue C-Sharp Minor, BWV 849: II. Fuga – Vladislav Mikhalchuk
- Prelude B Minor, BWV 855a (Transcr. by Alexander Siloti) – Katya Kramer-Lapin
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