Prelude BWV 855a: 1. Prelude No. 10 in B Minor (Transcr. Siloti) - As played By Víkingur Ólafsson

TITLE DETAILS

Title Prelude BWV 855a: 1. Prelude No. 10 in B Minor (Transcr. Siloti) - As played By Víkingur Ólafsson

Artist Víkingur Ólafsson and Johann Sebastian Bach

Composer Johann Sebastian Bach

Arranger Flavio Regis Cunha

Description

Prelude and Fugue in E minor, BWV 855, is the 10th prelude and fugue for keyboard (harpsichord) in the first book of The Well Tempered Clavier, composed in 1722 by Johann Sebastian Bach. The Prelude in E minor, BWV 855a, features as No. 18 ("Praeludium 5") in the 1720 Klavierbüchlein für Wilhelm Friedemann Bach. BWV 855a may also refer to both this Prelude and a Fughetta in the same key, an early version of BWV 855. Alexander Siloti made a piano arrangement in B minor of the Prelude BWV 855a.

Ólafsson teamed up with director Magnús Leifsson to shoot the video in a fish processing plant in Iceland, complete with grand piano. They use the fish, an early Christian symbol, to allude to the mysticism and timelessness of Bach’s music – as changeable as water, it has to be understood at a metalevel, given the many different ways in which composition, transcription and performance can be interwoven. "Everything is there in Bach’s music," says the pianist, who transports the composer’s keyboard writing to new shores on his latest recording. Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson releases video featuring music from his new album, Johann Sebastian Bach.

Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtT__umjFVY&list=RDrtT__umjFVY&start_radio=1

https://youtu.be/rtT__umjFVY
 

Intermediate
Format: Concert 9 x 12
4 pages

YouTube Link https://www.youtube.com/embed/VuV_Zqtj7WE

ARRANGEMENT DETAILS

Arrangement Format Piano Solo

Difficulty Intermediate

Price $5.99

GENRE DETAILS

Genres Baroque, Christmas, Easter, Instructional, Sacred