BACH PIANO TRANSCRIPTIONS – 9

 

A Bach Book for Harriet Cohen and other British transcriptions

 

Jonathan Plowright, piano

 

1 ARR. LEONARD BORWICK (1868–1925) Little Fugue in G minor BWV578 [3'27]

2 ARR. HARRIET COHEN (1895–1967) Be contented, O my soul FROM CANTATA BWV155 [5'13]

3 ARR. DAME MYRA HESS (1890–1965) Adagio FROM BWV564 [3'39]

4 ARR. DAME MYRA HESS (1890–1965) Jesu, joy of man’s desiring FROM CANTATA BWV147 [3'45]

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5 ARR. SIR GRANVILLE BANTOCK (1868–1946) Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme BWV645 [4'58]

6 ARR. SIR ARNOLD BAX (1883–1953) Fantasia in G major BWV572 [4'15]

7 ARR. SIR GERALD HUGH TYRWHITT-WILSON, LORD BERNERS (1883–1950) In dulci iubilo BWV729 [1'50]

8 ARR. SIR ARTHUR BLISS (1891–1975) Das alte Jahr vergangen ist BWV614 [3'30]

9 ARR. FRANK BRIDGE (1879–1941) Komm, süsser Tod BWV478 [3'43]

10 ARR. SIR EUGENE GOOSSENS (1893–1962) Andante FROM BRANDENBURG CONCERTO NO 2, BWV1047 [3'58]

11 ARR. HERBERT HOWELLS (1892–1983) O Mensch, bewein’ dein’ Sünde gross BWV622 [5'32]

12 ARR. JOHN IRELAND (1879–1962) Meine Seele erhebt den Herrn BWV648 [1'39]

13 ARR. CONSTANT LAMBERT (1905–1951) Der Tag, der ist so freudenreich BWV605 [1'31]

14 ARR. RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (1872–1958) Ach bleib’ bei uns, Herr Jesu Christ BWV649 [5'35]

15 ARR. SIR WILLIAM WALTON (1902–1983) Herzlich tut mich verlangen BWV727 [2'39]

16 ARR. WILLIAM GILLIES WHITTAKER (1876–1944) Wir glauben all an einen Gott BWV740 [4'34]

17 ARR. LEONARD BORWICK (1868–1925) O Lamm Gottes, unschuldig BWV656 [7'11]

18 ARR. HUBERT FOSS (1899–1953) See what his love can do FROM CANTATA BWV85 [3'20]

19 ARR. HERBERT FRYER (1877–1957) Sarabande FROM CELLO SUITE NO 6, BWV1012 [2'57]

21 ARR. RONALD STEVENSON (b1928) Komm, süsser Tod BWV478 [4'53]

 

In 1931 the pianist and muse Harriet Cohen invited all her principal composer friends each to make an arrangement of a work by J S Bach for inclusion in an album to be published by Oxford University Press. Published as A Bach Book for Harriet Cohen, it is recorded here for the first time by virtuoso pianist Jonathan Plowright. The disc is completed by eight other 20th century British Bach transcriptions.

 

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