CDA67767 - Disc 1 Track 16 - Wir glauben all an einen Gott, BWV740

Wir glauben all an einen Gott, BWV740

composer

doubtful attribution

arranger

William Gillies Whittaker (1876-1944)

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

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Bach: Piano Transcriptions, Vol. 9 – A Bach Book for Harriet Cohen
Jonathan Plowright (piano)

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Christopher Herrick (organ)

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Christopher Herrick (organ)

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Jonathan Plowright (piano)

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Wir glauben all an einen Gott, BWV740

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William Gillies Whittaker (1876–1944), who at the time he was invited to contribute to the Bach Book was simultaneously Professor of Music at Glasgow University and Principal of the newly founded Scottish National Academy of Music, was a Northumbrian composer of quite progressive instincts (as his visionary setting of Psalm 139 for unaccompanied double chorus in 1924 attests) but was more celebrated as a scholar of early music. In addition to editing Bach he had founded the Newcastle Bach Choir and would eventually be known for his posthumously published standard study of all the Bach cantatas. In his otherwise restrained treatment of the chorale prelude Wir glauben all an einen Gott BWV740, Whittaker’s persistent accents on the melody notes rather seem to war against his marking Sempre dolcissimo e legato, but this in fact makes an interesting study in balance, since the pianist must maintain the serenely devotional mood throughout.

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Details for CDA67767 track 16

Artists

Jonathan Plowright (piano)

ISRC

GB-AJY-10-76716

Duration

4'34

Recording date

20 September 2008

Recording venue

Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk, United Kingdom

Recording producer

Jeremy Hayes

Recording engineer

Tony Faulkner

Hyperion usage

Bach: Piano Transcriptions, Vol. 9 – A Bach Book for Harriet Cohen (CDA67767)
Disc 1 Track 16
Release date: September 2010

Hyperion Records