This week’s The Works features harpist Lavinia Meijer with her own transcription of a lilting Prelude in F Minor by J.S. Bach. “This piece is among my most favorite,” Meijer tells Apple Music Classical; “It has an open dance-like shape in which the harp can sing gently throughout—it really feels like Bach could have written it for the harp, which is the best indicator I believe for arranging any music.” Although the figuration in that prelude sounds fully idiomatic on the harp, it was originally written for keyboard, appearing as part of Bach’s The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II. Meijer admits she hesitated at first to arrange pieces from such a revered collection, but eventually decided to study them as part of her Masters at the Amsterdam Conservatory. “I went through all of them,” she says, “and selected the pieces that I thought would suit the harp best. Some of the Preludes, especially the F Minor Prelude, BWV 881, bring out an extra warm resonance, which adds to the flow and melancholy of this piece.” Meijer reveals that though transcribing that piece for harp “felt very natural,” in practice it involves quite a bit of footwork (perhaps appropriately for a composer famous for his organ music): “I did have to add 152 pedal changes (yes, I counted them!), in order to play all the notes on the harp—so in the end my feet had to work quite hard, almost as much as my fingers!” The Works features the best of the very latest classical releases. We regularly update this playlist, so if you find a piece of music or a performance you particularly love, don’t forget to add it to your library.