Emmanuel Despax – Spira, Spera (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Emmanuel Despax returns to Signum with a programme of JS Bach transcriptions. The title quotes Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (“Breathe, Hope”), brought to Despax’s mind following the news of the fire at Notre-Dame Cathedral, where he had attended many concerts of Bach’s music as a child. Despax describes Bach’s music as being “of such clarity, coherence and expressive power, that it is able to transcend its original medium, and to some extent, style”.

This virtuosic programme combines both well-known transcriptions, such as the mighty Bach-Busoni Chaconne and Saint-Saën’s Overture, with recordings of several arrangements by the late 19th/early 20th century pianist Theodor Szántó’s – featuring his monumental and uncompromising transcriptions of the Fantasia and Fugue in G minor, and the Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor.

Tracklist:
01. Emmanuel Despax – Bach: Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir, Bwv 29 (Ouverture) (03:52)
02. Emmanuel Despax – Bach: Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor, Bwv 1004: Chaconne (16:17)
03. Emmanuel Despax – Bach: Prelude in B Minor, Bwv 855a (03:06)
04. Emmanuel Despax – Bach: Prelude (03:48)
05. Emmanuel Despax – Bach: Prelude and Fugue in A Minor, Bwv 543: Fugue (06:33)
06. Emmanuel Despax – Bach: Nun freut euch, lieben Christen g’mein, Bwv 734 (02:02)
07. Emmanuel Despax – Bach: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, Bwv 659 (05:34)
08. Emmanuel Despax – Bach: Passacaglia (09:03)
09. Emmanuel Despax – Bach: Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor, Bwv 582: Fugue (06:07)
10. Emmanuel Despax – Bach: Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, Bwv 645 (03:51)
11. Emmanuel Despax – Bach: Ich ruf’ zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, Bwv 639 (03:45)
12. Emmanuel Despax – Bach: Fantasia (06:54)
13. Emmanuel Despax – Bach: Fantasia and Fugue in G Minor, Bwv 542: Fugue (05:37)
14. Emmanuel Despax – Bach: Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, Bwv 147 (Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring) (03:51)

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