Transcriptions from Machaut to J. S. Bach

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Piano 1, Piano 2 — 1-19. for piano four hands20. for piano six hands21-27. for two pianosFor György Kurtág, the inspiration that can be drawn from earlier music is particularly important, and he approaches them mostly by working together with performers, teaching them, or making transcriptions. Some of the transcriptions published here of the masterpieces of Medieval (Machaut), Renaissance (Lasso) and Baroque (Frescobaldi, Schütz, Purcell and Bach) music are the products of his chamber music teaching, while the Bach transcriptions, mostly made of chorale preludes, were for decades indispensable parts of the Kurtág-couple's concerts.

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