Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring - Favourite Piano Transcriptions

Kempff, Wilhelm

Genre: music4me > Easy Listening > Classical

Format: CD Album

Catalogue Number: 4576242

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This disc features transcriptions and performances by German pianist Wilhelm Kempff of 10 works by Bach, two by Gluck, and one by Handel. Kempff's transcriptions, while they cannot be said to surpass the originals, certainly transpose their beauties into a different medium with success. The limpid melody and undulating rhythms of Bach's Sicilienne from the Flute Sonata No. 2 sound supremely well suited for the keyboard, and several of Kempff's other transcriptions here surpass even the better known efforts of Myra Hess and Ferruccio Busoni; there's a quiet intensity to Kempff's "Jesu, joy of man's desiring" that Hess' slightly more elaborate arrangement doesn't quite match, and an artistic humility to Kempff's "Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ" that Busoni's much more virtuosic version entirely lacks. Coupled with Kempff's pellucid playing of Bach's G minor English Suite and the G major French Suite, the performances here are so completely as one with the music they can justly be called definitive. Every performance is captured in Deutsche Grammophon's clearest, cleanest, and truest stereo sound. ~ James Leonard, AMG

Track Listing:

3.	Sicilienne [3:38]
5.	'Jesu Joy of Man’S Desiring' [3:23]
7.	Parentes [4:35]
8.	Chorale-Prelude, 'Wachet Auf, Ruft Uns Die Stimme' [4:49]
9.	Largo [3:40]
11.	Minuet in G Minor [4:05]
12.	Ballet Music. Orpheus' Lament [3:00]
13.	Ballet Music. Dance of the Blessed Spirits [1:45]
14.	Prelude [3:21]
15.	Allemande [2:45]
16.	Courante [1:57]
17.	Sarabande 1 [2:16]
18.	Sarabande 2 [2:29]
19.	Gavotte 1 [1:49]
20.	Gavotte 2 [0:55]
21.	Gavotte 1 Da Capo [0:58]
22.	Gigue [2:47]
23.	Allemande [2:50]
24.	Courante [1:38]
25.	Sarabande [3:57]
26.	Gavotte [1:16]
27.	Bourrée [1:15]
28.	Loure [2:22]
29.	Gigue [3:28]