Liszt Transcriptions of Bach Volume 1

Catalog: CACD 9100-2 • Status: Identified

CD Covers

Hatto Liszt/Bach cover
Concert Artist 9100-2 • Joyce Hatto
Karl-Andreas Kolly cover
Pan Classics 510 • Karl-Andreas Kolly

Capsule Summary

All fourteen tracks on this disc derive from Karl-Andreas Kolly’s Pan Classics recording of Liszt’s piano transcriptions of Bach’s Preludes and Fugues. Eleven tracks show minor tempo adjustments within ±3 %, with only Track 7 altered by more than 5 %. Identification of the Kolly source was first reported by Bobby Snow and Peter Hartmann.

Sources

  • Karl-Andreas Kolly — Pan Classics 510 (Complete Liszt/Bach Transcriptions)

Track Evidence

1 Fantasia and Fugue in G minor, BWV 542 – Fantasia

Kolly (5:26)

Hatto (5:34) slowed by 2.59 %

2 Fantasia and Fugue in G minor, BWV 542 – Fugue

Kolly (5:22)

Hatto (5:27) slowed by 1.38 %

3 Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV 543 – Prelude

Kolly (2:58)

Hatto (3:02) slowed by 2.28 %

4 Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV 543 – Fugue

Kolly (5:16)

Hatto (5:10) sped up by 1.91 %

5 Prelude and Fugue in C major, BWV 545 – Prelude

Kolly (1:55)

Hatto (1:55)

6 Prelude and Fugue in C major, BWV 545 – Fugue

Kolly (3:31)

Hatto (3:25) sped up by 2.84 %

7 Prelude and Fugue in C minor, BWV 546 – Prelude

Kolly (5:11)

Hatto (5:27) slowed by 5.04 %

8 Prelude and Fugue in C minor, BWV 546 – Fugue

Kolly (4:54)

Hatto (4:47) sped up by 2.42 %

9 Prelude and Fugue in C major, BWV 547 – Prelude

Kolly (3:55)

Hatto (3:47) sped up by 3.29 %

10 Prelude and Fugue in C major, BWV 547 – Fugue

Kolly (3:58)

Hatto (3:58)

11 Prelude and Fugue in E minor, BWV 548 – Prelude

Kolly (5:15)

Hatto (5:21) slowed by 1.99 %

12 Prelude and Fugue in E minor, BWV 548 – Fugue

Kolly (7:06)

Hatto (6:56) sped up by 2.22 %

13 Prelude and Fugue in B minor, BWV 544 – Prelude

Kolly (5:28)

Hatto (5:21) sped up by 2.24 %

14 Prelude and Fugue in B minor, BWV 544 – Fugue

Kolly (4:44)

Hatto (4:44)