Bach & Busoni: Complete Transcriptions

Busoni had a great reverence for Johann Sebastian Bach, he edited all his keyboard works, and transcribed several of his works for piano solo, making use of all the piano’s rich possibilities and sonorities. He transcribed organ works (among which the famous Toccata & Fuga in D minors and the well-known Choralvorspiele) and the iconic Chaconne from the Partita for violin solo in D minor, one of his most famous works, and a standard warhorse of many a piano virtuoso.

Composers: Ferruccio Dante Micheangelo Benvenuto Busoni & Johann Sebastian Bach
Artist: Sandro Ivo Bartoli (piano)

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Ferruccio Busoni was a maestro Italian pianist who revolutionised piano transcription, truly bringing it into the modern era. At a time when transcriptions of organ music for piano clung tightly to the Romantic tradition, Busoni had the courage to take an interpretative, emancipatory approach, bringing out all of the unique qualities of the piano in his work, while remaining faithful to the core of Bach’s compositions. The comparable virtues of ‘rhythmic precision [and] greater impetuosity’ which he attributed to the piano are very much audible in this extraordinary album, from the delightful Prelude and Fugue in D major to the grandiose and virtuosic Two Toccatas, which Busoni placed at the very top of his ascending scale of difficulty for the transcriptions. The moods in this set range from soaring, majestic pieces that seem to aim straight at the heavens to poignant moments of the most sublime intimacy.

At the time, Busoni’s transcriptions were popular and controversial in equal parts, but his enduring success is manifest in the fact that today, his name has become inextricably linked with Bach. Perhaps most crucial to this achievement was, as album artist Sandro Ivo Bartoli puts it, his ‘lifelong, esoteric flirtation with achieving the impossible’.

Sandro Ivo Bartoli is one of the foremost interpreters of early 20th-century Italian piano music, and has played all over the world with orchestras such as the Philharmonia in London and the Deutsche Philharmonie. He also collaborated closely with the late great pianist Shura Cherkassky.

Tracklist:
Prelude and Fugue in D Major, BWV 532:
0:00:00 I. Prelude. Moderato
0:06:23 II. Fugue. Allegro moderato

Prelude and Fugue in E-Flat Major, BWV 552:
0:15:30 I. Prelude. Moderato maestoso
0:28:29 II. Fugue. Sostenuto e tranquillo

Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C Major, BWV 564:
0:37:09 I. Prelude. Tempo moderato, quasi improvvisando
0:44:07 II. Intermezzo. Adagio
0:50:41 III. Fugue. Moderatamente scherzando, un poco umoristico

Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565:
0:57:25 I. Toccata. Adagio – prestissimo
1:00:35 II. Fugue. Allegro sostenuto

1:08:24 Chaconne in D Minor, BWV 1004 (Andante maestoso, ma non troppo lento)
1:24:46 Prelude. Komm, Gott Schöpfer, heiliger Geist, BWV 667 (Vivace maestoso)
1:27:32 Prelude. Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 645 (Allegretto tranquillo, con semplicità devota)
1:32:16 Prelude. Nun komm’ der Heiden Heiland, BWV 659 (Adagio)
1:37:52 Prelude. Nun freut euch, lieben Christen gmein, BWV 734a (Allegro)
1:39:57 Prelude. Ich ruf’ zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 639 (Andante)
1:43:29 Prelude. Herr Gott, nun schleuß den Himmel auf, BWV 617 (Un poco agitato)
1:46:24 Prelude. Durch Adams Fall ist ganz verderbt, BWV 637 (Andante mesto)
1:49:27 Prelude. Durch Adams Fall ist ganz verderbt, BWV 705 (Molto sostenuto)
1:54:55 Prelude. In dir ist Freude, BWV 615 (Allegro marcato)
1:58:15 Prelude. Jesus Christus, unser Heiland, BWV 665 (Andante non troppo)

Prelude and Fugue in E Minor, BWV 533:
2:04:37 I. Prelude. Moderato deciso
2:07:44 II. Fugue. Andante tranquillo

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