Holger Groschopp - Ferruccio Busoni: Bach Transcriptions (2014)

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Artist: Holger Groschopp
Title: Ferruccio Busoni: Bach Transcriptions
Year Of Release: 2014
Label: CapriccioNR
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (image + .cue, log, artwork)
Total Time: 2:05:56
Total Size: 468 MB
WebSite: Album Preview

German pianist Holger Groschopp has emerged as something of a specialist in the voluminous body of transcriptions by Ferruccio Busoni. The most famous of these are treatments of Bach's music, but he also wrote arrangements and reworkings of Mozart, Liszt, and many other composers. This is a new recording of Bach transcriptions, made in 2011. Busoni's transcriptions are often heard singly on recital albums, but there's a lot to be said for hearing them in large groups, even for hearing the two CDs' worth here. It gets into the range of treatments Busoni applied, from massive Mahlerian attempts to encompass the world of the organ on piano, to studies in chromatic harmony, to quiet reverential treatments. Several of the works here are world premieres on recordings, and Groschopp even delves into entirely original concepts such as a chorale-based improvisation (CD 2, track 23). None of this is to say that his approach is academic or dully completist. In many cases he brings this music to life, with, for example, great crunching opening chords in the big organ preludes that seem to be straining to project the piano into the organ's realm. Highly recommended, and likely to help further what is already a substantial revival in Busoni's music. ~ James Manheim

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