Choralvorspiele

Description

Alongside the Chaconne for violin, the ten Chorale Preludes for organ are Busoni's best-known piano transcriptions of works by J. S. Bach. Unlike the Chaconne, which Busoni envisaged for concert performance, he transcribed the Chorale Preludes in "chamber-music style". A great deal of this organ/piano edition can also be played by advanced amateurs.

We are publishing Busoni's definitive version in the first modern Urtext edition with valuable fingering suggestions by Marc-André Hamelin. And what is more, in the appendix we are publishing an eleventh chorale prelude for the first time: Busoni's transcription of "Aus tiefer Not". With regard to performing its six-part setting, the composer himself spoke of an "extreme performance limit" - but why not judge for yourself!

Content:

• Komm, Gott, Schöpfer!
• Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme
• Nun komm' der Heiden Heiland
• Nun freut euch, lieben Christen
• Ich ruf' zu dir, Herr
• Herr Gott, nun schleuß den Himmel auf!
• Durch Adams Fall ist ganz verderbt
• Durch Adams Fall ist ganz verderbt
• In dir ist Freude
• Jesus Christus, unser Heiland, der von uns den Zorn Gottes wandt
• Anhang: Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu Dir