Holger Groschopp - Ferruccio Busoni: Bach Transcriptions (2014)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 468 Mb | Total time: 126:45 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Capriccio | C 9158 | Recorded: 2011
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 468 Mb | Total time: 126:45 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Capriccio | C 9158 | Recorded: 2011
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.