A Bach Book for Harriet Cohen

Leading Bach pianist Angela Hewitt has assembled a new book of music paying tribute to the ultimate Baroque master.The new Bach Book is a successor to Harriet Cohen?s dating from 1932 collecting arrangements from leading composers of her day which Cohen then toured in concert. Hewitt?s book includes two of the original arrangements - by Walton and Howells - together with her own transcriptions of three organ chorale preludes from Bach?s Orgelbüchlein and six new works commissioned by the Wigmore Hall from contemporary composers Brett Dean Robin Holloway Elena Kats-Chernin Dominic Muldowney Kurt Schwertsik and Yehudi Wyner.Contents:Prelude andChorale; Homage a Bach (Brett Dean) Herzlich tut mich verlangen BWV727 (J.S. Bach) Fantasia & Fuga Op.105 (Kurt Schwertsik) Partitina on the Opening Notes of J.S. Bach's Goldberg Bass (Robin Holloway) O Mensch bewein dein Sunde gross BWV622 (J.S. Bach) Fantasia on BACH (Yehundi Wyner) Wenn wir in hochsten Hoten sein BWV641 (J.S. Bach) Das alte Jahr vergangen ist BWV614 (J.S. Bach) Fantastia on BACH (Dominic Muldowney) Bach Study (Elena Kats-Chernin) Alle Menschen mussen sterben BWV643 (J.S. Bach)