Johann Sebastian Bach: Transkriptionen für Klavier Vol.2 (Ferruccio Busoni) on CD
Transkriptionen für Klavier Vol.2 (Ferruccio Busoni)
Conventional CD, playable with all CD players and computer drives, but also with most SACD or multiplayers.
Präludien & Fugen BWV 532 & 533; Fantasie, Adagio & Fuge BWV 906 / 968; Chaconne aus BWV 1004; Choräle BWV 615, 617, 637 / 705, 645, 665, 667
- Artists:
- Nikolai Demidenko (Klavier)
- Label:
- Hyperion
- Year of recording ca.:
- 2001
- Item number:
- 4711858
- UPC/EAN:
- 0034571173245
- Release date:
- 11.2.2002
Product-Information:
Following the success of Nikolai Demidenko's first disc of Busoni's transcriptions of Bach (CDA66566), here he completes the project. Busoni developed an individual approach to re-casting Bach's organ works for the piano, and utilizes a full range of sonorities to recreate the sound and effects of the organ. These transcriptions were so popular during Busoni's lifetime that his wife was once introduced by a society patron as Mrs Bach-Busoni!
This disc includes several lesser-known chorale preludes, the imposing Chaconne (originally for solo violin, although Busoni views it very much as another organ transcription), the D major Prelude and Fugue BWV532, and two rarities—the E minor Prelude and Fugue (BWV533) that Busoni used to illustrate his transcription techniques in the appendix to his edition of Bach's Das wohltemperirte Clavier, and the Fantasie, Adagio and Fugue, which is a hybrid work conjoining two Bach keyboard works (two thirds of the fugue is entirely by Busoni, as Bach left it unfinished).
Nikolai Demidenko conjures a magnificent sound from his Fazioli piano, and draws on his unique palette of instrumental colour. Anyone who has heard his first Bach-Busoni disc will want this follow-up. This disc is also part of a new Hyperion series exploring the wealth and diversity of piano transcriptions of Bach.
Rezensionen
»Enthusiastically recommended« (Fanfare, USA)
»[Demidenko's] performances capture the smouldering long lines and Gothic grandeur inherent in Busoni's textural transformations of the originals« (International Record Review)
»Demidenko plays them all with great panache and limitless technical command, clearly relishing the vast array of colour that Busoni's fertile imagination encourages« (The Guardian)
»Nikolai Demidenko performs all the music here with admirable devotion ... The playing throughout this enterprising recital cannot be faulted« (BBC Music Magazine)
Reviews
M. Stenger in FonoForum 9/02: »Wie er die Choralvorspiele zu Ausdrucksträgern ihrer Texte macht, wie er die Chaconne aus einem Guss mit vielen Nuancen entwickelt, das ist aufregend.«Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
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1 Fantasia in C Minor, BWV 906 (Arr. Busoni for Piano): I. Fantasia
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2 Adagio in G Major, BWV 968 (Arr. Busoni for Piano)
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3 Fantasia in C Minor, BWV 906 (Arr. Busoni for Piano): II. Fugue
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4 Komm, Gott Schöpfer, Heiliger Geist, BWV 667 (Arr. Busoni for Piano)
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5 Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 645 (Arr. Busoni for Piano)
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6 Prelude & Fugue in E Minor, BWV 533 (Arr. Busoni for Piano): I. Prelude
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7 Prelude & Fugue in E Minor, BWV 533 (Arr. Busoni for Piano): II. Fugue
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8 Prelude & Fugue in D Major, BWV 532 (Arr. Busoni for Piano): I. Prelude
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9 Prelude & Fugue in D Major, BWV 532 (Arr. Busoni for Piano): II. Fugue
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10 Herr Gott, nun schleuss den Himmel auf, BWV 617 (Arr. Busoni for Piano)
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11 Durch Adams Fall ist ganz verderbt, BWV 637/705 (Arr. Busoni for Piano)
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12 In dir ist Freude, BWV 615 (Arr. Busoni for Piano)
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13 Jesus Christus, unser Heiland, BWV 665 (Arr. Busoni for Piano)
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14 Partita No. 2 for Solo Violin in D Minor, BWV 1004: V. Chaconne (Arr. Busoni for Piano)
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