Bach, J.S. / Serkin: Rudolf Serkin Plays Bach
Bach, J.S. / Serkin: Rudolf Serkin Plays Bach
Format: CD
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Artist: Bach, J.S. / Serkin
Label: Sony Masterworks
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 190759216828
Genre: Classical
Sony Classical proudly announces an uncommonly attractive new batch of reissues from the CBS/Sony and RCA Victor/BMG back catalogues. This latest installment of the popular series showcases the reissue of a path-breaking composer edition as well as recordings by some of the labels' greatest artists of the last half-century. Rudolf Serkin is rightly revered for his powerful interpretations of the Austro-German Classical and Romantic piano repertoire, but he was also an outstanding Bach player. In the 1920s he began a decades-long partnership with the great German violinist-conductor Adolf Busch (his future father-in-law) that led to, among countless treasures, a classic set of the Brandenburg Concertos, recorded in London in 1935, and many performances of the Bach Violin Sonatas, including a live recording of No. 3 in E major, BWV 1016, made in Washington in 1943. That performance is now being reissued in a new Sony Classical release containing all of Serkin's Bach for American Columbia. The new collection contains another famous recording of the Brandenburgs featuring Rudolf Serkin's magnificent continuo playing on piano (and his son Peter playing harpsichord continuo in No. 6), made in 1965 at the Marlboro Festival in Vermont (founded by Adolf Busch), led by Alexander Schneider and conducted by Pablo Casals. There are also performances of Bach's two Concertos for 3 Keyboards that Serkin recorded at Marlboro and Casals's Prades Festival with pianist-colleagues Mieczyslaw Horszowski, Peter Serkin and Ruth Laredo; Serkin père playing solo works including the Chromatic Fantasy and Italian Concerto; and the 14 canons based on the Aria from the Goldberg Variations that was discovered in 1974 in Bach's own copy of the printed works, with Serkin's "concentrated, reflective, crystal-clear, and beautifully balanced performance" (Andrew Porter, writing in High Fidelity) of the Aria.
Tracks:
1.1 CD 1
1.2 Concerto for 3 Harpsichords, Strings and Continuo in D minor BWV 1063
1.3 Ruth Laredo · Mieczyslaw Horszowski Pianos
1.4 Concerto for 3 Harpsichords, Strings and Continuo in C Major BWV 1064
1.5 Peter Serkin · Mieczyslaw Horszowski Pianos
1.6 Marlboro Festival Orchestra · Alexander Schneider Conductor
1.7 14 Canons on the First 8 Notes of the Aria from the Goldberg Variations BWV 1087
1.8 Felix Galimir · Eugene Drucker · Isidore Cohen · Naoko Tanaka
1.9 Yukiko Kamei · Lynn Horner · Roland Greutter · Gregory Fulkerson Violins
1.10 Philipp Naegele · Steven Ansell · Irene Serkin · Caroline Levine Violas
1.11 Johannes Goritzki · Timothy Eddy · Peter Rejto Cellos
1.12 Marc Marder Double Bass · Julia Bogorad Flute
1.13 Rudolph Vrbsky Oboe · Michael Rosenberg English Horn
1.14 Alexander Heller · Christopher Millard Bassoons
2.1 CD 2
2.2 Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F Major BWV 1046
2.3 Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G Major BWV 1049
2.4 Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D Major BWV 1050
2.5 Marlboro Festival Orchestra · Pablo Casals Conductor
3.1 CD 3
3.2 Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D minor BWV 903
3.3 Italian Concerto in F Major BWV 971
3.4 Capriccio in B-Flat Major BWV 992
3.5 Toccata in E minor BWV 914
3.6 Sonata for Harpsichord and Violin No. 3 in E Major BWV 1016
3.7 Adolf Busch Violin
