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Recording details: August 2001
Forde Abbey, Somerset, United Kingdom
Produced by Erik Smith
Engineered by Ken Blair
Release date: February 2002
Total duration: 69 minutes 55 seconds
Available for download on iTunes: Yes
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'Enthusiastically recommended' (Fanfare, USA)
'[Demidenko's] performances capture the smouldering long lines and Gothic grandeur inherent in Busoni's textural transformations of the originals' (International Record Review)
'Demidenko plays them all with great panache and limitless technical command, clearly relishing the vast array of colour that Busoni's fertile imagination encourages' (The Guardian)
'Nikolai Demidenko performs all the music here with admirable devotion ... The playing throughout this enterprising recital cannot be faulted' (BBC Music Magazine)
'Demidenko’s full-blooded readings of the D major Prelude and Fugue BWV 532 and the monumental D minor Chaconne from BWV 1004 have the necessary tingle factor, backed by sensational recorded sound' (Music Week)
'From the opening notes of the Fantasia, Adagio and Fugue with which the CD begins there is a lightness, vivacity and ease to Demidenko’s playing which engages the attention' (Pianist)
'Demidenko rend un somoptueux hommage à l’art de Busoni, dont ces compositions constituent elles-mêmes un vibrant hommage au génie de Bach' (Répertoire, France)
'Il [Nikolai Demidenko] possède une véritable affinité et une intelligence de cette musique, qui apparaît très claire, sinon toujours à son maximum d’éxpressivité. Voici une approche convaincante de ces transcriptions' (Classica, France)
'This is some of the most colossal piano playing I've ever heard. In its nobility, its grandeur, its multi-dimensionality and its astounding command of piano sonorities, it's worth the price of admission by itself' (Piano Magazine)
Fantasia in C minor, BWV906
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) & Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924)
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Movement 1: Fantasia
[3:32]
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Fantasia in C minor, BWV906
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) & Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924)
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Movement 2: Fugue
[4:08]
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Little Prelude and Fugue in E minor, BWV533
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) & Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924)
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Movement 1: Prelude
[2:59]
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Movement 2: Fugue
[3:10]
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Prelude and Fugue in D major, BWV532
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) & Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924)
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Movement 1: Prelude
[6:52]
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Movement 2: Fugue
[5:47]
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Partita No 2 in D minor, BWV1004
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) & Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924)
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Movement 5: Ciaccona
[16:56]
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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 rarities - the 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.
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