Ich Ruf Zu Dir

As part of the Ergodos Festival MMX, three living composers have made arrangements of Johann Sebastian Bach’s setting of the chorale ‘Ich Ruf Zu Dir, Herr Jesu Christ’. Film nuts might be familiar with the haunting tune from Andrei Tarkovsky’s film, Solaris. Garrett Sholdice’s arrangement is for solo piano – in it he strips away the inner voices, leaving only the melody and a skeletal bass line, and it’s exquisitely slow. Here’s a recording made by Stef Conner.