Transcriptions occupied Ferruccio Busoni from early in his career, but his famously Romantic version of the Chaconne in D minor (Naxos 8.555699) contrasts with the later and more austere Sonatina brevis based on Bach’s Fantasy and Fugue in D minor, BWV 905. Music from Bach’s The Art of Fugue is invoked in the rarely heard Edizione minore version of the Fantasia contrappuntistica, and the Ten Chorale Preludes include the glorious Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme. Sir Edward Elgar considered Busoni ‘the greatest musical mind of his time’, and Wolf Harden’s playing of Busoni has been described as ‘the clear current benchmark’ (BBC Music Magazine on Volume 2, 8.555699).
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Busoni, Ferruccio
Piano Sonatina No. 5, "Sonatina brevis in signo Joannis Sebastiani Magni"
1 Piano Sonatina No. 5, "Sonatina brevis in signo Joannis Sebastiani Magni" 05:11
Preludio al Corale e Fuga sopra un frammento di Bach (Edizione minore della Fantasia contrappuntistica)
2 Sostenuto religiosamente - Deciso e apertamente 04:20
3 Fuga I 04:26
4 Fuga II 02:25
5 Fuga III 04:29
6 Fuga IV - Stretta 03:16
Bach, Johann Sebastian
Busoni, Ferruccio - Arranger
Prelude, Fugue and Allegro in E-Flat Major, BWV 998 (arr. F. Busoni for piano)
7 Prelude, Fugue and Allegro in E-Flat Major, BWV 998 (arr. F. Busoni for piano) 08:36
Busoni, Ferruccio
Bach - 10 Chorale Preludes
8 No. 1. Komm, Gott Schöpfer, BWV 667 02:39
9 No. 2. Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 645 04:01
10 No. 3. Nun komm' der Heiden Heiland, BWV 659 04:41
11 No. 4. Nun freut euch, lieben Christen, BWV 734 02:40
