Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer: Nikolai Demidenko
Format: FLAC (tracks+cue)
Label: Hyperion
Catalogue: CDA67324
Release: 2002
Size: 204 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Fantasia in C minor, BWV906
01. I. Fantasia
02. Adagio in G major, BWV968
Fantasia in C minor, BWV906
03. II. Fugue
04. Chorale Prelude BWV667 ‘Komm, Gott Schöpfer, heiliger Geist’
05. Chorale Prelude BWV645 ‘Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme’
Prelude & Fugue in E minor, BWV533
06. I. Prelude
07. II. Fugue
Prelude & Fugue in D major, BWV532
08. I. Prelude
09. II. Fugue
10. Chorale Prelude BWV617 ‘Herr Gott, nun schleuß den Himmel auf’
11. Chorale Prelude BWV637 ‘Durch Adam’s Fall ist ganz verderbt’
12. Chorale Prelude BWV615 ‘In dir ist Freude’
13. Chorale Prelude BWV665 ‘Jesu Christus, unser Heiland’
Partita for solo violin No. 2 in D minor, BWV1004
14. V. Ciaccona
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 raritiesthe 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.