Evgeny Kissin - Siciliano [W. Kempff’s transcription of J. S. Bach]

Evgeny Kissin - Siciliano © Mikko Lagerstedt photography ___ A young Evgeny Kissin (aged 19) performs Wilhelm Kempff’s great transcription of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Siciliano or Siciliana, a delightful piece from the sonata for flute and keyboard in E-flat major, BWV 1031. Bach composed this sonata between 1730 and 1734. To my dear friend F... “I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship, and a star to steer her by, And the wheel’s kick and the wind’s song and the white sail’s shaking, And a grey mist on the sea’s face, and a grey dawn breaking. I must down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied; And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying, And the flung spray and the blown spume and the sea gulls crying. I must down to the seas again, to the vagrant gipsy life, To the gull’s way and the whale’s w