This is a prelude that I am familiar with, having played it at a recital when I was younger.  As with most of Bach's music, there is an almost anticipated melancholy - quiet, solemn, and sombre, which permeates the music. 

Siloti's arrangement of the piece, which originally has the melody running through the left hand, brings the melody to the foreground, whilst keeping a streak of running chords ring throughout the left-hand accompaniment. In essence, the melody-to-chord relationship becomes inverse. What I admire the most about the piece, and what I tried to underline in my interpretation, is the evolution of the aforementioned running left-hand chords into a beautiful arpeggio-like construct. This metamorphosis takes place in measure 18 (or time mark 1:51 in the recording). This particular section is often overlooked in other recordings of this piece. I deliberately played these arpeggios with a pronounced ritardando to further emphasise their weight.

Alexander Siloti (1863-1945) was a Russian pianist, composer, and conductor. He studied piano under Nikolai Rubinstein (brother of Anton Rubinstein), and harmony under Pyotr Tchaikovsky. Siloti later went to Weimar, Germany, where he furthered his studies under Franz Liszt, and would himself eventually come to tutor students such as Sergei Rachmaninoff. Siloti was especially noted for developing the art of transcription. He wrote more than 200 arrangements, as well as orchestral editions of the music of Bach, Beethoven, Liszt, Tchaikovsky, and Vivaldi. 

illustration: Friedrich - 'The Monk by the Sea', 1808-1810, Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin

J. S. Bach - Prelude in B Minor BWV 855a (transcr. Siloti)

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