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Artur Schnabel plays Bach

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Artur Schnabel plays Bach

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Artur Schnabel plays Bach


Bach, J S:

Italian Concerto, BWV971

Recorded 11th November 1938, London

Chromatic Fantasia & Fugue in D minor, BWV903

Recorded 15th-16th June 1948, London

Prelude & Fugue Book 1 No. 5 in D major, BWV850

Recorded 13th June 1950, London

Toccata in C minor, BWV911

Recorded 24th November 1937, London

Toccata in D major, BWV912

Recorded 24th November 1937, London

Concerto for Two Keyboards in C major, BMV1061

Recorded 28th October 1936, London

with Karl Ulrich Schnabel (piano)

London Symphony Orchestra, Adrian Boult


Artur Schnabel (piano)

This release contains all of Schnabel’s commercial disc recordings of the works of J. S. Bach, a composer whose keyboard music the pianist felt was too intimate for performance in the concert hall. One of Schnabel’s greatest talents was the ability to employ not only seemingly natural tempos but, more importantly, the perfect tempo relationship between sections and movements. The Prelude and Fugue from The Well-Tempered Clavier was the last recording Schnabel made before his death in 1951.

Of the recording of the Toccata in C minor, BWV 911, one critic wrote upon its release, “Schnabel has rarely made a more satisfying recording than this. He refuses speed and brilliance to the opening Allegro moderato, taking it more slowly than is usual… he makes the transition to the Adagio seem inevitably right.”

Naxos Historical Great Pianists - 8111286

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