034571174686

Bach: Piano Transcriptions, Vol. 4 - Samuel Feinberg

Martin Roscoe

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Format: 2CD

Cat No: CDA67468

Release Date:  01 September 2004

Label:  Hyperion Records Ltd

Packaging Type:  Brilliant Case (Jewel Case size, Holds 2 CDs)

No of Units:  2

Barcode:  034571174686

Genres:  Classical  Baroque  

  • Description

    This fourth volume in our series of Bach transcriptions brings the first recording of the complete works in the genre by the hugely neglected figure of Samuil Feinberg. Feinberg belongs firmly in the grand tradition of the 19th-century pianist/composer that stretches from Chopin to Godowsky via Liszt and Busoni. Unfortunately his modernist compositional tendencies and the fact that he was Jewish led to his being sidelined within the Soviet regime, his ‘elitist’ music being rarely performed and his performing career constrained within the USSR. It is likely that his transcriptions were a creative response to the restrictions placed on his original music; no one could deny Bach his rightful place in the musical world and his organ music, from which all these works originated, was little known in Russia. No doubt Feinberg, the virtuoso, was also fascinated with the challenges of recreating the works pianistically as had Busoni before him, and it is to this composer that Feinberg’s transcriptional style can most easily be compared. His earliest transcription, the Vivaldi/Bach concerto, is also his most superficially virtuosic; it’s interesting that thereafter his choice of music tends to come from Bach’s later output where his polyphony and harmonic language is at its most complex. These are magnificent realizations of works often still too little known in their original guise which will fascinate both for their pianistic ingenuity and their intrinsic musical worth.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Prelude
      • 2. Fugue
      • 3. Largo
      • 4. Allein Gott in Der Hoh Sei Ehr
      • 5. Allein Gott in Der Hoh Sei Ehr
      • 6. Allein Gott in Der Hoh Sei Ehr
      • 7. An Wasserflussen Babylon
      • 8. Ein Feste Burg Ist Unser Gott
      • 9. Von Gott Will Ich Nicht Lassen
      • 10. Wer Nur Den Lieben Gott Lasst Walten
      • 11. Kommst du num, Jesu, vom Himmel herunter
      • 12. Herr Jesu Christ, Dich Zu Uns Wend
      • 13. Jesus Christus, Unser Heiland
      • 14. Nun Komm, Der Heiden Heiland
      • 15. Ach bleib' bei uns, Herr Jesu Christ
      • 16. Valet will ich dir geben

      Disc 2

      • 1. Allegro
      • 2. Adagio
      • 3. Allegro