BWV Fragments (1999)
for keyboard (organ or harpsichord)
Publisher: Bardic Edition
Published in: Collected Shorter Piano Pieces Vol 1 (2008) – Bardic Edition BDE 917
Available from Goodmusic Publishing
Duration: 1 minute
CD Recordings
Piano:
*Recorded by Jill Richards on ‘Michael Blake: Complete Works for Solo Piano 1994-2004’ (MBED001)
*Recorded by Antony Gray on ‘Bach Piano Transcriptions’ (ABC Records PLU 347534)
Live Recording
Carson Cooman organ
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=carson+cooman+bwv+fragments
Première
First performance: Thursday 16 May 2002; Beethoven Room, Grahamstown, South Africa; Jill Richards piano
Programme note
BWV Fragments was written on the occasion of Ishbel Sholto-Douglas’ retirement from the Rhodes University Music Department. Her life-long passion for Bach’s Cello Suites, which she first introduced me to when I was an undergraduate at Wits University close to three decades before, led me to use them as the source material for this little tribute. I cut and pasted, transposed and superimposed fragments, and deliberately misread clefs, but every single note came from Bach.
for keyboard (organ or harpsichord)
Publisher: Bardic Edition
Published in: Collected Shorter Piano Pieces Vol 1 (2008) – Bardic Edition BDE 917
Available from Goodmusic Publishing
Duration: 1 minute
CD Recordings
Piano:
*Recorded by Jill Richards on ‘Michael Blake: Complete Works for Solo Piano 1994-2004’ (MBED001)
*Recorded by Antony Gray on ‘Bach Piano Transcriptions’ (ABC Records PLU 347534)
Live Recording
Carson Cooman organ
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=carson+cooman+bwv+fragments
Première
First performance: Thursday 16 May 2002; Beethoven Room, Grahamstown, South Africa; Jill Richards piano
Programme note
BWV Fragments was written on the occasion of Ishbel Sholto-Douglas’ retirement from the Rhodes University Music Department. Her life-long passion for Bach’s Cello Suites, which she first introduced me to when I was an undergraduate at Wits University close to three decades before, led me to use them as the source material for this little tribute. I cut and pasted, transposed and superimposed fragments, and deliberately misread clefs, but every single note came from Bach.
