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Ferrucio Busoni: Piano Works - Hommage to Mozart, Bach, Chopin / Roland Pontinen, piano

1 CD / CPO / 2012-01-31

Works: Ferruccio Busoni: Chaconne, transcription for piano in D minor (after J. S. Bach, BWV 1004), KiV B24; Four Chorale Preludes; In dir ist Freude, transcription for piano (after J. S. Bach, BWV 615; Ten...
Performers: Pontinen, Roland

Busoni was a musician of rare versatility - a pianist, composer, writer and editor. His deep study of Bach and Mozart was essential to his...continue...
Recording information: SWR Stuttgart, Kammermusikstudio (09/15/2008-09/18/2008)....continue...

Cathedral For Bach

1 CD / EtCetera Records / 2010-06-08

Works: Ferruccio Busoni: Fantasia after Johann Sebastian Bach for Piano, K 253; Durch Adams Fall ist ganz verdebt (I), transcription for piano (after J.S. Bach, BWV 637; Ten Choral; Four Chorale Preludes; I...
Performers: Michiels, Jan

Jan Michiels plays on a beautiful-sounding Steinway from 1875, an instrument that could have been played by Bartok and Busoni. The Bach works on this...continue...
Recording information: Great Hall, Conservatory Brussels (05/13/2009-05/15/2009)....continue...

Busoni: Piano Transcriptions / Holger Groschopp

4 CD / Capriccio / 2009-05-26

Works: Ferruccio Busoni: Sonatina sopra Carmen, for piano (no 6), KiV 284; Chorale Preludes (6), transcriptions for piano (after Johannes Brahms Op. 122), KiV B50; Chaconne, transcription for piano in D min...
Performers: Groschopp, Holger

"It takes not only super-virtuoso technique to play Ferruccio Busoni's piano transcriptions and paraphrases, but brains, soul, and especially guts, and pianist Holger Groschopp has...continue...

Busoni: Piano Music Vol 4 / Wolf Harden

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2008-08-26

Works: Ferruccio Busoni: Praeludium & Fuge, transcription for piano in D major (after J. S. Bach, BWV 532), KiV B20; Elegien, suite of elegies (6) for piano, KiV 249; Berceuse, for piano (Elegies no 7), KiV...
Performers: Harden, Wolf [Piano]

Performance occupied much of Busoni's attention until the turn of the twentieth century, when composition began to assume a new importance in his career. Busoni...continue...

Busoni: Fantasia contrappuntistica, etc / John Ogdon

1 CD / Altarus / 2006-02-01

Works: Ferruccio Busoni: Fantasia contrappuntistica (I), for piano ("Edizione definitiva"), KiV 256; Fantasia after Johann Sebastian Bach for Piano, K 253; Toccata for Piano, K 287 "Preludio, Fantasia, Ciac...
Performers: Ogdon, John

Ogden's intellect plainly found the psychological complexity and emotional ambiguity of Busoni's aesthetic profoundly appealing. In fact, it seems a combination of natural ability and...continue...

Nach Bach - Busoni: Piano Works 1908-1921 / Andrea Padova

1 CD / Stradivarius / 2005-05-10

Works: Ferruccio Busoni: Praeludium, Fuge & Allegro, transcription for piano in E flat major (after J. S. Bach BWV 998), KiV; Fantasia, Adagio e Fuga, transcription for piano (after J. S. Bach, BWV 906/968)...

"Padova, first prize-winner at the 1995 International JS Bach Competition, is the ideal [Busoni] advocate. He creates some of the same dark, sustained, organ-like tone...continue...

Inspired by Bach - Busoni, Troncon / Carlo Grante

1 CD / Music & Arts / 2005-04-01

Works: Ferruccio Busoni: Fantasia after Johann Sebastian Bach for Piano, K 253; Prélude et Étude en Arpèges, K 297; Perpetuum mobile, K 293; Trills Etude; Paolo Troncon: Preludes and Fugues (...
Performers: Grante, Carlo

Piano Works by Nixon, Schubert, Ravel, et al / Corbett-Jones

1 CD / Cambria / 1999-01-01

Works: Roger Nixon: Preludes (12) for piano; Music for piano; Maurice Ravel: Sonatine for Piano; Béla Bartók: Hungarian Peasant Songs (15) for Piano, Sz 71; Ferruccio Busoni: Fantasia after Johann...
Performers: Corbett-Jones, William

Busoni: Piano Works / Geoffrey Tozer

1 CD / Chandos Records / 1996-05-21

Works: Ferruccio Busoni: Sonatina sopra Carmen, for piano (no 6), KiV 284; Sechs Stücke, for piano, Op. 33b, KiV 241; Elegien, suite of elegies (6) for piano, KiV 249; Fantasia after Johann Sebastian B...
Performers: Tozer, Geoffrey [Piano/Composer]

"Geoffrey Tozer's finely played and representative programme makes us realize at once that we are in the presence of a mind fully attuned to the...continue...