Wolf Harden - Busoni: Piano Music, Vol. 11 (2019) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Piano Sonatina No. 5, BV 280 "Sonatina brevis in signo Joannis Sebastiani Magni"
02. Fantasia contrappuntistica, BV 256a (Edizione minore): Preludio al corale
03. Fantasia contrappuntistica, BV 256a (Edizione minore): Fuga I
04. Fantasia contrappuntistica, BV 256a (Edizione minore): Fuga II
05. Fantasia contrappuntistica, BV 256a (Edizione minore): Fuga III
06. Fantasia contrappuntistica, BV 256a (Edizione minore): Fuga IV
07. Prelude, Fugue & Allegro in E-Flat Major, BV B 36 (After J. S. Bach's BWV 998)
08. Das Orgel-Büchlein, BV B 27: No. 1, Komm, Gott Schöpfer (After J. S. Bach's BWV 667)
09. Das Orgel-Büchlein, BV B 27: No. 2, Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (After J. S. Bach's BWV 645)
10. Das Orgel-Büchlein, BV B 27: No. 3, Nun komm' der Heiden Heiland (After J. S. Bach's BWV 659)
11. Das Orgel-Büchlein, BV B 27: No. 4, Nun freut euch, lieben Christen (After J. S. Bach's BWV 734)
12. Das Orgel-Büchlein, BV B 27: No. 5, Ich ruf zu dir, Herr (After J. S. Bach's BWV 639)
13. Das Orgel-Büchlein, BV B 27: No. 6, Herr Gott, nun schleuß den Himmel auf (After J. S. Bach's BWV 617)
14. Das Orgel-Büchlein, BV B 27: No. 7, Durch Adams Fall (After J. S. Bach's BWV 637)
15. Das Orgel-Büchlein, BV B 27: No. 8, Durch Adams Fall (After J. S. Bach's BWV 705)
16. Das Orgel-Büchlein, BV B 27: No. 9, In dir ist Freude (After J. S. Bach's BWV 615)
17. Das Orgel-Büchlein, BV B 27: No. 10, Jesus Christus, unser Heiland (After J. S. Bach's BWV 665)

Transcriptions occupied Ferruccio Busoni from early in his career, but his famously Romantic version of the Chaconne in D minor (Naxos 8555699) 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, 8555699).

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