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King of Kings: JS Bach orchestrated by Andrew Davis | Chandos CHAN20400

King of Kings: JS Bach orchestrated by Andrew Davis

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Label: Chandos

Cat No: CHAN20400

Barcode: 0095115240021

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 1st August 2025

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About

Sir Andrew Davis was a talented keyboard player as a child and teenager, and after study with Peter Hurford, at St Albans, he spent four years at the University of Cambridge as organ scholar at King’s College, under Sir David Willcocks. It was this period of his life that sparked his love for and appreciation of the organ works of J.S. Bach, which remained a lifelong passion. Sir Andrew made all the transcriptions on this album for the BBC Philharmonic, and four of them were recorded in November 2023. Sadly, Sir Andrew died before the final recording sessions for the album could take place (September 2024): we are immensely grateful that he completed the arrangements, and very thankful to Martyn Brabbins for completing the recording with the sense of style, love, and affection that Sir Andrew would have admired.

Reviews

The 11 transcriptions on this recording no doubt reflect Davis’s particular favourites within the Bach organ repertoire, but they also probably intimate works that he himself thought convincingly transcribable for the broad palette of the modern orchestra. ... This is a wonderfully uplifting recording in which Bach’s organ masterpieces come to life through the vigour and élan of the orchestra... If you love your Bach and your romantic orchestra, this album, stunningly executed by the BBC PO under Brabbins’s sure hand, will always be a captivating encounter.  Jeremy Dibble (Recording of the Month)
Gramophone September 2025

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