| View Larger Image | Bach: Transcriptions | Audio CDEdward Elgar (Composer), Gustav Mahler (Composer), Arnold Schoenberg (Composer), Leopold Stokowski (Composer), Anton Webern (Composer), Esa-Pekka Salonen (Composer), Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group (Composer)
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| | Binding: | Audio CD | | Studio: | Sony | | Release Date: | August 29, 2000 | | Sales Rank: | 29,523th |
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Disc: 1
- Track 1: Toccata and Fugue in D minor, transcription for orchestra (after Bach, BWV 565)
- Track 2: Toccata and Fugue in D minor, transcription for orchestra (after Bach, BWV 565)
- Track 3: Arrangement: J.S. Bach's Fantasia & Fugue in C minor (BWV 537), for orchestra, Op. 86
- Track 4: Arrangement: J.S. Bach's Fantasia & Fugue in C minor (BWV 537), for orchestra, Op. 86
- Track 5: Fuga (Ricercata) a 6 voci for orchestra (arr. from Bach's Musical Offering)
- Track 6: Transcription for orchestra of Bach's Prelude & Fugue in E flat major: Präludium
- Track 7: Transcription for orchestra of Bach's Prelude & Fugue in E flat major: Fuge
- Track 8: Little Fugue in G minor, transcription for orchestra (after Bach, BWV 578)
- Track 9: Suite aus den Orchestrawerken, for orchestra, harpsichord & organ (after J.S. Bach)
- Track 10: Suite aus den Orchestrawerken, for orchestra, harpsichord & organ (after J.S. Bach)
- Track 11: Suite aus den Orchestrawerken, for orchestra, harpsichord & organ (after J.S. Bach)
- Track 12: Suite aus den Orchestrawerken, for orchestra, harpsichord & organ (after J.S. Bach)
- Track 13: Suite aus den Orchestrawerken, for orchestra, harpsichord & organ (after J.S. Bach)
- Track 14: Suite aus den Orchestrawerken, for orchestra, harpsichord & organ (after J.S. Bach)
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CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 6 reviews)
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Oddly dispirited and square by Santa Fe listener  3 Stars
September 24, 2005
These lushly romantic, even shmaltzy arrangements of Bach for orchestra--the kind made famous by Stokowski when conducting was a glamorous Hollywood profession--don't suit Salonen at all. By temperament he is all but anti-romantic, a modernist through and through. So these performances, despite being well played and in gorgeous sound, are lifeless. Stick with Stokowski all the way.
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A Great Bach Recording  5 Stars
March 22, 2001
Tis is a collection of some of the best music suited for orchestra. Most of these works were originally for harpsichord and organ. They are played with such grace and elegance by L.A.P. Salonen does a fantastic job conducting. Thede pieces were brillantly arranged by the likes of Stokowsky, Webern, Mahler, Elgar, etc. These are among the most brilliant musicians ever. They are fantastic. The Tocatta and Fugue in d is powerful. The elegance of the suites are matched by nothing. The Air is so moving. The flutist is wonderful. This is an all around great c.d. for any Bach fan.
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Excellent recording...if transcriptions appeal to you by Grady Harp (Los Angeles, CA United States) 3 Stars
December 15, 2000
With all the new and exciting contemporary works that the LA Phil is presenting (not to mention the rethinking of some of the "old masters") I wonder why Salonen elected to put this selection on disc. The orchestra plays beautifully, the sound is elegant, but there is something that aproaches pedantic about this. Perhaps Salonen wants to exercise some of the influences on his own composing. Or perhaps this is an homage to the old tradition of creating various arrangements of well known music for a variety of ensembles. It is valuable as a curiosity, but it is doubtful that it will be one of your frequently played recordings. Why not Stucky or Lieberson or Reich or even the Gorecki 2nd Symphony instead.......?
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Back to Bach (Via Philadelphia) by Thomas F. Bertonneau (Oswego, NY United States) 5 Stars
October 11, 2000
Vulgarian and Neanderthal throwback that I am, I love this stuff, inordinantly. I think Stokowski a genius and precisely for his Bachwerk, his "arrangements" of the Leipzig master's keyboard compositions for full modern symphony orchestra. But Stoki labored in good company, for, as Esa-Pekka Salonen's new Sony anthology with the L.A. Philharmonic shows, Gustav Mahler, Sir Edward Elgar, Arnold Schoenberg, and Anton Webern inter alia all put their able hands to updating and amplifying Bach for a dynamo age. (As a matter of fact, Leonard Slatkin has recorded a similar, but even more variegated, CD, with the BBC Philharmonic, for Chandos.) We begin with Stoki's most famous (or infamous) transcription, the D-Minor Toccata and Fugue, made doubly notorious through its role as a kind of overture in the Disney film "Fantasia." Salonen competes with several recorded versions, going back to the late 1920s, with Stoki himself at the helm of the Philadelphia and other orchestras. He has, I believe, made the decision to do it the way Stoki did it, and the result is satisfying. (That is to say, technicolor, over-the-top, and cinematically glittering.) Next up? Elgar's miraculously pompous and circumstantial reworking of the Fantasy and Fugue in C-Minor (also on Slatkin's Chandos CD). Yep. Sounds like the First Symphony or one of those processionals. Relish it. Glory in it. Dann kommt ja Herr Webern, with his sound-coloristic treatment of the Ricercar from "A Musical Offering." Less grand, it is, than Elgar, but uncanny and hence welcome as a change of pace. In Arnold Schoenberg's hyper-romantic rethinking, the "Ste. Anne" Prelude and Fugue becomes a vast two-movement symphony, with the same orchestral palette as his own "Pelleas und Melisande" or "Gurrelieder." Stoki now makes another appearance, with his version of the "Little" Fugue in G Minor. At last, Gustav Mahler comes up to the plate with his arrangment of selections from the orchestral suites. Der "Gustl" offers perhaps the tamest stuff here, but it's still plenty meaty fare. Gimme more! I remember, for example, a mid-1970s LP of Eugene Ormandy conducting the Philadelphians in arrangements of nothing but the fugues. There were eight of `em, as I recall. Then there was the Columbia LP of the London Symphonic Wind Ensemble doing Bach as Berlioz might have done him when he was writing the Symphonie Funebre et Triomphale. And is there a billionaire out there who will commission some needy living composers to orchestrate the Preludes and Fugues of that other contrapuntal master, Dmitri Shostakovich? Meanwhile, I'll keep playing the lottery.
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Superb Salonen, Magnificent Bach plus by Perry M. Smith (Baltimore, MD USA) 5 Stars
September 09, 2000
Esa-Pekka Salonen is given to eccentric and idiosyncratic readings of scores, not always to their disadvantage. This selectionof transcriptions of Bach works by other composers and conductors is by its very nature odd-ball, and Salonen makes the most of it. He is particularly effective with Elgar's interpretation of the fantasy and Fugue in C Minor. This is not a recording for Bach purists but for those who enjoy the sounds of a fleshed-out orchestra under the control of a masterful Romaticist. I give it five stars and a bullet and Salonen a hearty clap on the back for a job well done.
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