The fugue is one of the most badass things to ever touch the piano imo
@giuseppeagresta1425
4 жыл бұрын
Agreed
@giuseppeagresta1425
4 жыл бұрын
I love Godowsky's transcriptions
@daniloberaldo570
4 жыл бұрын
Me too!
@daniloberaldo570
4 жыл бұрын
My dream is play all Godowsky transcriptions with an Hamburg Steinway.
@OrbiliusMagister
4 жыл бұрын
Strange transcription: Godowsky usually adds counterpoints and/or implied harmonies to the cello line, while in this particular transcription is obsessed by octave doubling and heavy bass pedal points. It sounds and looks like an organ transcription (like those by Busoni). Is there a reason for this?
@TheExarion
4 жыл бұрын
This is a very apt observation, and unfortunately I don't really have an explanation for this :( Maybe there's a clue in that it seems that all of these arrangements were done in March 1923, between Hong Kong and Java (assuming that the date/location at the end of each arrangement is referring to when/where he wrote these).
@georgeowen2553
3 жыл бұрын
One could argue that a) the Fifth Suite is the least needing of additional counterpoint, b) the Fifth Suite is the most needing of a more dramatic and bass-heavy sound to replicate the serious depth of tone of the cello's C-string, c) seeing as he worked on these onboard a ship between ports on the other side of the world, it's possible the piano he had access to was not the greatest if one even existed.
@donaldaxel
2 жыл бұрын
Indeed, this doubling of the basses is really too much. Played softly on a grand with nice bright sound it may be better. Like Dinu Lipatti recordings of the transcripts for organ sound so much more "piano-suited". And one more objection: Some of the pieces, like the Sarabande, sounds better in unisono.
@PointyTailofSatan
Жыл бұрын
LOL you sound exactly like myself, commenting in the past about transcriptions of Bach organ works to the piano. As an organist, the simplistic use of octaves to "fill in" for the typical registrations on the organ is like playing Liszt on a banjo.
@AEPMUSlC
4 жыл бұрын
For a second there I thought I was listening to the Courante in Bach's Suite no 2 in A minor at 11:48
@BrendanCalliesComposer
Жыл бұрын
D minor
@AEPMUSlC
Жыл бұрын
@@BrendanCalliesComposer English suite no 2
@BrendanCalliesComposer
Жыл бұрын
@@AEPMUSlC my bad I'm a cellist
@AEPMUSlC
Жыл бұрын
@@BrendanCalliesComposer my condolences 🌹
@donaldaxel
2 жыл бұрын
I love to play the Second Cello Suite Prelude simply with octaves (on piano) and very little arrangement is needed to have it sound as a genuine piano composition, due to Bach's writing which invites to use pedal when chords are unfolded as a melody. You can find Busoni's arrangement for piano on IMSLP (same edition as BWV 1011) but I can't play it. Is there any recording? I would love to hear Busoni's free transcription. We should be willing to pay the performers more than we do. I have, but seldomly, paid "fiscal attribute" to one performer (Montero, Helene Grimaud + some more) whose work can be found on KZitem by buying their CDs.
@automatofix
5 ай бұрын
1:03
@NotSilent_
2 жыл бұрын
This is the heaviest of the 6 suites, why make it 100x times heavier. I really dislike this transcription. The heaviness feels random and unnecessary.
@davids9167
Жыл бұрын
It's my favorite one except for the 2nd movement which goes forever
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