In the nineteenth century, piano transcriptions were both standard items in the performing repertory and the way most people got to know new music, or in the case of Bach, newly rediscovered music. There are lots of transcriptions for piano of Bach's works for strings, wind instruments, or voices, and Italian-French-American pianist Alessio Bax has dug into the older repertory and forged a program full of fresh items and attractive contrasts. A few pieces here are widely known: the massive transcription by Ferrucio Busoni ...
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In the nineteenth century, piano transcriptions were both standard items in the performing repertory and the way most people got to know new music, or in the case of Bach, newly rediscovered music. There are lots of transcriptions for piano of Bach's works for strings, wind instruments, or voices, and Italian-French-American pianist Alessio Bax has dug into the older repertory and forged a program full of fresh items and attractive contrasts. A few pieces here are widely known: the massive transcription by Ferrucio Busoni of the Chaconne from the Partita No. 2 for solo violin in D minor, BWV 1004, is saved naturally enough for a slam-bang finale, and Busoni's counterpart in virtuosity-over-everything transcription, Polish pianist Leopold Godowsky, is represented at the beginning of the program and again by a short bourrée from one of the unaccompanied cello suites. But Bax fills out the main body of the program with a nice variety of transcriptions oriented toward something other than sheer pianistic...
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Alessio Bax; Alexander Siloti; Egon Petri; Ferruccio Busoni; Johann Sebastian Bach; Leopold Godowsky. New. New in new packaging. USA Orders only! Brand New product! please allow delivery times of 3-7 business days within the USA. US orders only please.
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