Fiddling With Bach

Whether with arrangements, transcriptions, technological enhancements or interpretive diversity, we seem incapable of keeping our hands off.

Program Broadcast dates:

• March 10, 1997

Music played in the program

BACH (trans. Dupré): Sinfonia to Cantata No. 29 (Wir danken dir) –Michael Murray (1949 Aeolian-Skinner/Boston Symphony Hall, MA) Telarc CD-80104

BACH (trans. Rachmaninoff): Suite from Violin Partita in E, S. 1006 –Keith John (1972 Grant, Degens & Bradbeer/Saint Mary’s, Woodford, London, England, UK) Priory CD-002

BACH (arr. Cavasanti): Trio Sonata in e, S. 526 –Lorenzo Cavasanti, flute; Sergio Ciomei (Pinchi chamber organ) Nuora Era CD-7234

BACH: Prelude & Fugue in D, S. 532 –Kevin Bowyer (1912 Harrison/Saint Mary-Redcliffe, Bristol, England, UK) Priory CD-267

BACH (trans. Fox): Air on the G String, from Orchestral Suite in D –Virgil Fox (Aeolian-Skinner Opus 1118/Riverside Church, New York, NY) RCA CD-61251

BACH (arr. Thiry): Preludes & Fugues in C/c, s. 846/7, from Well-tempered Clavier Book I –Louis Thiry (1970 Koenig/Reformed Church, Auteuil, France) Arion CD-468306

BACH: Partita on Christ, der du bist der helle Tag, S. 766 –Wolfgang Rübsam (1992 Taylor & Boody/Christ Church Cathedral, Indianapolis, IN) Naxos CD-8.553134

BACH (trans. Reger): Chromatic Fantasy & Fugue in d, S. 903 –Nicolas Kynaston (1782 Stumm/Amorbach Abbey, Germany) IMP Masters CD-90