G. Henle Verlag
Chorale Preludes
Arrangement For Piano
Alongside The Chaconne For Violin, The Ten Chorale Preludes For Organ Are BusoniS Best Known Piano Transcriptions Of Works By J. S. Bach. Unlike The Chaconne, Which Busoni Envisaged For Concert Performance, He Transcribed The Chorale Preludes In Chamber Music Style. A Great Deal Of This Organ/Piano Edition Can Also Be Played By Advanced Amateurs. We Are Publishing BusoniS Definitive Version In The First Modern Urtext Edition With Valuable Fingering Suggestions By Marc André Hamelin. And What Is More, In The Appendix We Are Publishing An Eleventh Chorale Prelude For The First Time: BusoniS Transcription Of Aus Tiefer Not. With Regard To Performing Its Six Part Setting, The Composer Himself Spoke Of An Extreme Performance Limit But Why Not Judge For Yourself!
