FERRUCCIO BUSONI (1866-1924): Piano Music, Vol. 11 - Sonatina brevis (No. 5) “in signo Joannis Sebastiani Magni” BV. 280, Preludio al Corale e Fuga sopra un frammento di Bach (Edizione minore della Fantasia contappuntistica), BV. 256a, BACH/BUSONI: Prelude, Fugue and Allegroin E Flat, BWV 998, BV B. 36, 10 Chorale Preludes, BV B. 27.

Description: Busoni’s famously Romantic version of the Bach Chaconne in D minor contrasts with the later and more austere Sonatina brevis based on the Fantasy and Fugue in D minor, BWV 905. Music from Bach’s 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. Wolf Harden (piano).