BACH PASSACAGLIA and FUGUE Piano

Passacaglia. . . . . . composer: Johann Sebastian Bach. . arranger: Fazil Say. . . . . . BWV 582. . . . Instrumentation: piano. . Publisher: Schott Music. . Duration: 13' 0''. . Series: The Virtuoso Piano Transcription Series - Band 12. . 20 Pages - Saddle stitching. . ISMN: 979-0-001-146. . Order number: ED 20137. . . . . . Description:. . . . . . The Turkish pianist and composer Fazil Say has from the age of sic begun each day with the performance of a keyboard work by Bach; his concert programmes include both numerous original compositions and transcriptions. His own piano transcription of the well-known Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor is neither a mere incorporation of the pedal voice with its almost continous ostinato theme into the left hand of the piano part, nor a purely virtuoso ornamentation of the original version. His intention is to produce an imaginative transcription of the relatively two-dimensional organ registration utilising the tonal possibilities of the piano.