Rachmaninoff Paraphrasing Bach : Violin Partita No. 3 for piano - Lugansky

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Sergey Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Suite from the Violin Partita in E major: Prelude, Gavotte & Gigue, transcription for piano after J. S. Bach, BWV 1006 (1720; 1933)
Nikolai Lugansky, 2021
Moscow Philharmonic Society

[0:00] I. Preludio (Non allegro)
[3:35] III. Gavotte
[6:30] VII. Gigue

“With a few exceptions, Rachmaninov was generally quite faithful to the source music of his transcriptions. In this Bach effort, however, he added contrapuntal parts and harmonies because the original was written for solo violin. Yet the music has a mostly Bachian flavor and some have surmised that Bach himself would have made very similar modifications had he fashioned a keyboard version. That said, there are more than a few snippets of Rachmaninov's voice in this effort, especially in the opening prelude where there are echoes in the contrapuntal writing of some of the Etudes-Tableaux and the first movement of a work to come in 1940, the Symphonic Dances. “

Robert Cummings