Bach/Busoni/Sokolov - Ich ruf zu dir

- Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (31 March 1685 -- 28 July 1750) - Performer: Grigori Sokolov - Year of recording: probably 1990 (live in Munich, Germany) Bach/Busoni/Sokolov piano transcription of the “Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ“ chorale prelude for organ (Orgel-Büchlein No. 41), BWV 639 (BC K68), written in 1713-1715. Bach’s Orgelbüchlein (Little Organ Book) contains chorale preludes for the church year written during composer’s service at Weimar (1708 - 1717). Such pieces, combining learned counterpoint with expressive meditation on the chorale on which the prelude is based, were new in conception. As organist at Weimar, Bach was charged with providing a harmonic underpinning for use by those assembled at church services who sang the Lutheran chorale tunes chosen for each day. Bach wrote out many of these harmonizations, in part as instruction for younger composers. They are still used for this purpose. Bach’s Orgelbüchlein was essentia