Bach: Organ Fugue in B Minor, BWV 544

Thomas Labé, Piano

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Music

Tags:

• Johann
• Sebastian
• Bach
• Organ
• Prelude
• Fugue
• Minor
• BWV
• 544
• Thomas
• Labé
• piano
• Tscherlitzky
• transcription
• arrangement

[coneroc]

wow! this was posted one day after my birthday!!

i want to belive that this is my birthday's gift =)

[MaestroCanale]

It is indeed a magnificent transcription of a glorious piece. Happy Birthday to you!

[MaestroCanale]

I have made a PDF available of the Bach/Tscherlitzky score in a posting on my new piano blog (Planet Piano) which can be accessed through my website. Enjoy!

[Totennebel]

Great!

Is it possible to get the sheets for that transcription?

[MaestroCanale]

Yes, it is possible. The score I hold is a rough photocopy of the original publication (itself a printing which embodies all the lax printing standards of the early nineteenth century). In any case, I will scan it and post it as a PDF within about a week on my piano blog. As soon as I do this, I will place a comment here and provide a link. Cheers!

[Wandelbart]

Symphonic!

[dmu87]

I understand that the bass octaves create difficulties for tempo in a transcription like this, but I still think you could keep the tempo a little more controlled. The overall shape of the piece really falls apart when you cut the tempo so dramatically (especially at subject entrances-- you can be much more subtle). Overall though, I thought you expression was great and the lines were pretty clear for a piano transcription.

[rodstartube]

hey! i heard this original in organ, the organist (my teacher) told me this was one of Bach's most difficult pieces for the organ's pedal keyboard part. by the way you play it magnificiently

[ADH2711]

Very nice interpretation !!

[JTuttle24]

Beautiful! 5*

[thomasbartke]

I wish you would play this in a much dryer acoustic so as to bring out the lyricism and refinement of the rich harmonic progressions and wonderful melody lines in the 16th-note counterpoints. While it is quite necessary to use a rich acoustic for a pipe organ (for different reasons), the beauty of the piano transcript is that you don't have to play it in a "church". - Other than that: Great playing. Thanks!

[Artotentanz]

That was perfect. Bravo!!

[gothicrecital]

Mr. Labe's interpretation of organ transcriptions stands out of most interpretation of the kind as that the original organ is much present in his piano performance of the pieces. Not too much rubato, speed variation or sound variation; instead, there is timed monotonousness of the original organ. Piano performance of organ pieces is about a struggle between the two instruments, and it's up to the artist to decide the balance between them.

[soulechene]

On retrouve dans cette interprétation d'une partition de JS Bach la même densité musicale que chez Alexis Weissenberg, Bravo Monsieur Thomas Labé, vous avez beaucoup de talent, merci

[MusicPredominates]

@coneroc : Believe that which you so wish to believe. But if I was you, I would get the Listz transcription and work at it !