Buxtehude by Arrangement: The Stradal Transcriptions

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Catalogue No: TOCC0534
EAN/UPC: 5060113445346
Release Date: 2019-12-01
Composer: August Stradal, Dieterich Buxtehude
Artists: Meilin Ai

Busoni’s transcriptions of Bach have long been one of the mainstays of the piano repertoire. Bach himself worshipped the music of the Danish-born Dieterich Buxtehude (c. 1637–1707), famously walking 250 miles to Lübeck to hear him play. The Liszt student August Stradal (1860–1930) obviously shared that admiration, transcribing ten of Buxtehude’s most imposing organ works for piano, thus creating alongside ‘Bach-Busoni’ a corpus of grandiose – and virtuoso – Baroque music for the modern concert grand that has somehow remained almost entirely unknown.

Meilin Ai, piano

Listen To This Recording:

    Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BuxWV153

  1. I Prelude
  2. II Fugue 1
  3. III Fugue 2
  4. IV Toccata
  5. Chaconne in E minor, BuxVW160

  6. Chaconne in E minor, BuxVW160
  7. Prelude and Fugue in E minor, BuxWV143

  8. I Prelude
  9. II Fugue 1
  10. III Fugue 2 – Adagio
  11. Prelude and Fugue in E minor,
    BuxWV142

  12. I Prelude
  13. II Fugue 1
  14. III Fugue 2
  15. IV Fugue 3
  16. Passacaglia in D minor, BuxVW161

  17. Passacaglia in D minor, BuxVW161
  18. Prelude and Fugue in D minor, BuxVW140

  19. I Prelude
  20. II Fugue 1
  21. III Fugue 2
  22. Prelude and Fugue in G minor, BuxVW150

  23. I Prelude
  24. II Fugue 1
  25. III Fugue 2
  26. IV Fugue 3
  27. Chaconne in C minor, BuxVW159

  28. Chaconne in C minor, BuxVW159
  29. Prelude and Fugue in F major, BuxWV145

  30. I Prelude
  31. II Fugue
  32. Prelude and Fugue in F sharp minor, BuxVW146

  33. I Prelude
  34. II Fugue
  35. III Toccata

FIRST RECORDINGS

1 review for Buxtehude by Arrangement: The Stradal Transcriptions

  1. :

    ‘Overall, this is an utterly magnificent disc; the cover notes are extremely detailed and provide a vast amount of information, especially about Stradal and the disc is enormously generously filled (at 83 and a half minutes). It is splendidly recorded; the presentation is up to Toccata’s usual high standards and the production values are high. Most importantly, the playing throughout is superb; the clarity of lines, pedalling and sheer musicality of Ms Ai are wonderful. […] I have no hesitation in recommending this disc and I hope that there are further Stradal transcriptions which Toccata and Ms Ai will record in the future. This is a disc that I look forward to returning to again and again, as there are many things of interest and discoveries to me made. Full marks to Toccata again!’

    —Jonathan Welsh, MusicWeb International

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