Variations For Judith

11 even short reflections on Bist du bei mir by G.H. Stölzel arr J.S. Bach for easy to intermediate piano.

The music in this book was a gift to Judith Serota in appreciation of her work as Executive Director of the Spitalfields Festivals in east London until late 2007.

Diana Burrell, the Artistic Director of the Festival at that time, conceived the idea of assembling a set of piano pieces of easy to intermediate difficulty for her to play. These were to be variations on a theme: Bist du bei mir, a song for voice and continuo in J.S. Bach's second Klavierbüchlein or 'Little Keyboard Book'.

The variations were written by the Artistic Directors of the Spitalfields Festival, all composers, with whom Judith had worked over the preceding 20 years. Since then, several more composers, linked to the Festival during those years, have contributed pieces. The result is Variations for Judith, 'eleven short reflections' on the theme.