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Track(s) taken from CDA67767

Meine Seele erhebt den Herrn, BWV648

composer
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
circa 1748/9; Schübler Chorale No 4; arrangement of Cantata 10 movement 5
arranger
John Ireland (1879-1962)
August 1931; commissioned by Harriet Cohen and first published by Oxford University Press in A Bach Book for Harriet Cohen; first performed at the Queen's Hall on 17 October 1932

Jonathan Plowright (piano)
Recording details: September 2008
Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk, United Kingdom
Produced by Jeremy Hayes
Engineered by Tony Faulkner
Release date: September 2010
Total duration: 1 minutes 39 seconds

Cover artwork: Front illustration. Donya Claire James (b?)
 

Other recordings available for download

Angela Hewitt (piano)

Reviews

‘Jonathan Plowright plays everything with calm, unforced assurance, nicely balancing Bach style and 1930s period manners, and making light of all the left-hand skips needed to suggest Bach's organ pedal parts. An immaculate recording and Calum MacDonald's detailed notes enhance the disc's appeal’ (BBC Music Magazine)

‘Every so often a CD comes along that I simply can't stop playing. Here's one such example … glorious interpretations by Jonathan Plowright’ (The Observer)

‘There are some gems here … this is an invaluable addition to Hyperion's Bach Piano Transcriptions series and Plowright has done us an enormous service in resurrecting these transcriptions and in rendering them so eloquently’ (International Record Review)
John Ireland chose to refashion Meine Seele erhebt den Herrn BWV648 from the ‘Schübler’ chorales; his manuscript is dated August 1931. His one-page setting underlines the fugal tendencies and questing chromaticism of Bach’s original, beginning in and finally retreating into the bass.

from notes by Calum MacDonald © 2010

John Ireland choisit de refaçonner Meine Seele erhebt den Herrn BWV648, tiré des chorals «Schübler»; son manuscrit est daté d’août 1931. Cette version d’une page souligne les tendances fuguées et le chromatisme pénétrant de l’original bachien, commençant et se retirant à la basse.

extrait des notes rédigées par Calum MacDonald © 2010
Français: Hypérion

John Ireland wählte Meine Seele erhebt den Herrn BWV648 aus den „Schüblerchorälen“; sein Manuskript ist vom August 1931 datiert. Die auf einer Seite untergebrachte Notierung unterstreicht die fugalen Tendenzen und die suchende Chromatik von Bachs Vorlage, beginnt im Bass und kehrt letztlich zum Bass zurück.

aus dem Begleittext von Calum MacDonald © 2010
Deutsch: Henning Weber

Other albums featuring this work

Bach Arrangements
Angela Hewitt (piano)
CDA67309

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