Artist: Meilin Ai Title: Buxtehude by Arrangement Year Of Release: 2020 Label: Toccata Classics Genre: Classical Quality: FLAC (tracks) + booklet) Total Time: 01:23:17 Total Size: 262 MB Tracklist: 1. Prelude & Fugue in A Minor, BuxVW 153 (Transcr. A. Stradal for Piano): I. Prelude (1:55) 2. Prelude & Fugue in A Minor, BuxVW 153 (Transcr. A. Stradal for Piano): II. Fugue No. 1 (3:42) 3. Prelude & Fugue in A Minor, BuxVW 153 (Transcr. A. Stradal for Piano): III. Fugue No. 2 (2:00) 4. Prelude & Fugue in A Minor, BuxVW 153 (Transcr. A. Stradal for Piano): IV. Toccata (1:21) 5. Chaconne in E Minor, BuxVW 160 (Transcr. A. Stradal for Piano) (6:55) 6. Prelude & Fugue in E Minor, BuxVW 143 (Transcr. A. Stradal for Piano): I. Prelude (1:56) 7. Prelude & Fugue in E Minor, BuxVW 143 (Transcr. A. Stradal for Piano): II. Fugue No. 1 (3:00) 8. Prelude & Fugue in E Minor, BuxVW 143 (Transcr. A. Stradal for Piano): III. Fugue No. 2 - IV. Adagio (1:24) 9. Prelude & Fugue in E Minor, BuxVW 142 (Transcr. A. Stradal for Piano): I. Prelude (1:12) 10. Prelude & Fugue in E Minor, BuxVW 142 (Transcr. A. Stradal for Piano): II. Fugue No. 1 (1:51) 11. Prelude & Fugue in E Minor, BuxVW 142 (Transcr. A. Stradal for Piano): III. Fugue No. 2 (3:14) 12. Prelude & Fugue in E Minor, BuxVW 142 (Transcr. A. Stradal for Piano): IV. Fugue No. 3 (3:31) 13. Passacaglia in D Minor, BuxVW 161 (Transcr. A. Stradal for Piano) (9:01) 14. Prelude & Fugue in D Minor, BuxVW 140 (Transcr. A. Stradal for Piano): I. Prelude (1:41) 15. Prelude & Fugue in D Minor, BuxVW 140 (Transcr. A. Stradal for Piano): II. Fugue No. 1 (2:40) 16. Prelude & Fugue in D Minor, BuxVW 140 (Transcr. A. Stradal for Piano): III. Fugue No. 2 (3:15) 17. Prelude & Fugue in G Minor, BuxVW 150 (Transcr. A. Stradal for Piano): I. Prelude (1:13) 18. Prelude & Fugue in G Minor, BuxVW 150 (Transcr. A. Stradal for Piano): II. Fugue No. 1 (3:39) 19. Prelude & Fugue in G Minor, BuxVW 150 (Transcr. A. Stradal for Piano): III. Fugue No. 2 (1:21) 20. Prelude & Fugue in G Minor, BuxVW 150 (Transcr. A. Stradal for Piano): IV. Fugue No. 3 (2:46) 21. Chaconne in C Minor, BuxVW 159 (Transcr. A. Stradal for Piano) (8:01) 22. Prelude & Fugue in F Major, BuxVW 145 (Transcr. A. Stradal for Piano): I. Prelude (2:42) 23. Prelude & Fugue in F Major, BuxVW 145 (Transcr. A. Stradal for Piano): II. Fugue (4:59) 24. Prelude & Fugue in F-Sharp Minor, BuxVW 146 (Transcr. A. Stradal for Piano): I. Prelude (2:50) 25. Prelude & Fugue in F-Sharp Minor, BuxVW 146 (Transcr. A. Stradal for Piano): II. Fugue (4:27) 26. Prelude & Fugue in F-Sharp Minor, BuxVW 146 (Transcr. A. Stradal for Piano): III. Toccata (2:54) Busoni's transcriptions of Bach have long been one of the mainstays of the piano repertoire. Bach himself worshipped the music of the Danish- (or Swedish-) born Dieterich Buxtehude (16371707), famously walking 250 miles to Lübeck to hear him play. The Liszt student August Stradal (18601930) obviously shared that admiration, transcribing ten of Buxtehudes most imposing organ works for piano, thus creating alongside Bach-Busoni a corpus of grandiose and virtuoso Baroque music for the modern concert grand that has somehow remained almost entirely unknown. Meilin Ai studied for her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in piano performance with Joseph Banowetz at the University of North Texas and is now a full-time faculty member of the Conservatory of Music of the Sichuan Normal University in China