BACH TRANSCRIPTIONS

Kotaro Fukuma, piano

Monday 20, January | 12 noon

San Anton Palace, Attard

Berlin based pianist Kotaro Fukuma will guide the audience through the finest transcriptions of Bach’s music including Bach-Saint-Saëns’ Overture from Cantata BWV 29 and Bach-Fukuma’s reworking of the Aria ‘Erbarme Dich, mein Gott’.

PROGRAMME

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Johann Sebastian BACH (1685-1750)

1. Bach - Egon Petri (1881-1962): Choral "Sheep may safely graze”, BWV 208 No. 9

2. Bach - Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924): Choral "Ich ruf zu Dir, Jesus Christ”, BWV 639

3. Bach - Ferruccio Busoni: "Nun komm' der Heiden Heiland”, BWV 659

4. Bach - Myra Hess (1890–1965): Choral "Jesus, bleibet meine Freude”, BWV 147

5. Bach - Franz Liszt (1811-1886): Prelude and Fuga A minor, BWV 543

6. Bach - Wilhelm Walter Friedrich Kempff (1895-1991): Siciliano (from the Flute Sonata in E-flat major), BWV 1031

7. Bach - Johannes Brahms (1833-1897): Chaconne (Mvt. 5) from the Partita for solo violin No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004

8. Bach - Alexander Siloti (1863-1945): Prelude in B minor, BWV 855a

9. Bach - Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921): Overture from Cantata BWV 29

10. Bach - Kotaro Fukuma (1982-): Air “Erbarme Dich, mein Gott”, extract from the St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244

11. Bach - Eugen d'Albert (1864-1932): Passacaglia and Fugue, BWV 582

MUSICIANS

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Kotaro Fukuma, piano