CDD22062 - Disc 1 Track 1 - Fantasia and Fugue in G minor, BWV542

Fantasia and Fugue in G minor, BWV542

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Liszt: Complete Piano Music
Leslie Howard (piano)

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Bach: Great Fantasias, Preludes & Fugues
Christopher Herrick (organ)

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Liszt: The complete music for solo piano, Vol. 13 – À la Chapelle Sixtine
Leslie Howard (piano)

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Liszt: The complete music for solo piano, Vol. 56 – Rarities, Curiosities, Album Leaves and Fragments
Leslie Howard (piano)

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Percy Grainger – The complete 78-rpm solo recordings
Percy Grainger (piano)

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Bach: The Complete Organ Works
Christopher Herrick (organ)

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Complete: Fantasia and Fugue

arranger
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
published 1863; with revisions 1872; second version

Percy Grainger (piano)

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Movement 1: Fantasia

Christopher Herrick (organ)

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Movement 1: Fantasie

arranger
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
published 1863; with revisions 1872; second version

Leslie Howard (piano)

Track 14 on CDA66438 [5'15]

arranger
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
circa 1861; first version

Leslie Howard (piano)

Track 2 on CDA67414/7 CD1 [5'53] 4CDs for the price of 3 — 4CDs Last few remaining

arranger
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
published 1863; with revisions 1872; second version

Leslie Howard (piano)

Track 14 on CDS44501/98 CD50 [5'15] 99CDs Boxed set + book (at a special price)

arranger
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
circa 1861; first version

Leslie Howard (piano)

Track 2 on CDS44501/98 CD85 [5'53] 99CDs Boxed set + book (at a special price)

Movement 2: Fuge

arranger
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
published 1863; with revisions 1872; second version

Leslie Howard (piano)

Track 15 on CDA66438 [5'35]

arranger
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
circa 1861; first version

Leslie Howard (piano)

Track 3 on CDA67414/7 CD1 [5'31] 4CDs for the price of 3 — 4CDs Last few remaining

arranger
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
published 1863; with revisions 1872; second version

Leslie Howard (piano)

Track 15 on CDS44501/98 CD50 [5'35] 99CDs Boxed set + book (at a special price)

arranger
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
circa 1861; first version

Leslie Howard (piano)

Track 3 on CDS44501/98 CD85 [5'31] 99CDs Boxed set + book (at a special price)

Movement 2: Fugue

Christopher Herrick (organ)

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Fantasia and Fugue in G minor, BWV542

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It is not known when the fantasia from the Fantasia and Fugue in G minor, BWV542 became associated with the loosely constructed virtuoso pedal fugue which tradition has it Bach played to Buxtehude’s contemporary Reincken in Hamburg in 1720; its tuneful subject, very similar to a Dutch folktune, was used as a test in extempore fugal playing in the same city five years later. ‘The best of Bach’s pedal pieces’, wrote an early copyist at the end of it, and few could quarrel with his enthusiasm. The splendour of the fantasia, both aural and intellectual, would seem to indicate that it was written a good deal later; certainly the two contrasted ideas—mighty chords and rhetorical flourishes, and expressive, thoughtful counterpoint—are executed with masterly ease.

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Details for CDD22062 disc 1 track 1

Movement 1: Fantasia

Artists

Christopher Herrick (organ)

ISRC

GB-AJY-93-79101

Duration

6'03

Recording date

24 April 1993

Recording venue

Jesuitenkirche, Lucerne, Switzerland

Recording producer

Paul Spicer

Recording engineer

Paul Niederberger

Hyperion usage

Bach: Great Fantasias, Preludes & Fugues (CDA66791/2)
Disc 1 Track 1
Release date: October 1993
Deletion date: February 2006
2CDs Superseded by CDD22062
Bach: Great Fantasias, Preludes & Fugues (CDD22062)
Disc 1 Track 1
Release date: November 2006
2CDs Dyad (2 for the price of 1)
Bach: The Complete Organ Works (CDS44121/36)
Disc 2 Track 1
Release date: October 2002
Deletion date: March 2009
16CDs Boxed set (at a special price) — 16CDs Deleted

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