Peter Donohoe - Busoni: Toccata, BV 287, Elegien, BV 252, Sonatina No. 6, BV 284 & Toccata, Adagio & Fugue in C Majo '2021

Tracks list

Tracklist

01. Toccata, BV 287: I. Preludio. Quasi presto, arditamente
02. Toccata, BV 287: II. Fantasia. Sostenuto, quasi adagio
03. Toccata, BV 287: III. Ciaccona. Allegro risoluto
04. Elegien, BV 249: No. 1, Nach der Wendung
05. Elegien, BV 249: No. 2, All Italia! in modo napolitano
06. Elegien, BV 249: No. 3, Meine Seele bangt und hofft zu Dir
07. Elegien, BV 249: No. 4, Turandots Frauengemach
08. Elegien, BV 249: No. 5, Die Nächtlichen. Walzer
09. Elegien, BV 249: No. 6, Erscheinung. Notturno
10. Elegien, BV 249: No. 7, Berceuse. An Johan Wijsman, BV 252
11. Sonatina No. 6, BV 284 Kammer-Fantasie über Carmen
12. Toccata, Adagio & Fugue in C Major, BV B 29 No. 1 (After Bachs BWV 564): I.
Toccata. Preludio, quasi improvvisando
13. Toccata, Adagio & Fugue in C Major, BV B 29 No. 1 (After Bachs BWV 564): II.
Adagio. Intermezzo
14. Toccata, Adagio & Fugue in C Major, BV B 29 No. 1 (After Bachs BWV 564):
III. Fuga. Moderatamente scherzando


Peter Donohoe CBE studied at Chetham’s School of Music and Leeds
University before going on to study at the Royal Northern College of Music with
Derek Wyndham and in Paris with Olivier Messiaen and Yvonne Loriod. He is
acclaimed as one of the foremost pianists of our time, for his musicianship,
stylistic versatility, and commanding technique. He first came across the works
of Busoni in the early 1980s and, as he states in his booklet note,
‘Busoni’s contribution to the musical history of the twentieth
century is inestimable, and I feel very much enriched by the several decades of
my exposure to it.’ The programme he has chosen includes three of the
pinnacles of Busoni’s virtuosic output: the Toccata, BV 287, the seven
Elegien, and the Sonatina on Bizet’s Carmen, alongside the much earlier
Bach transcription of which Peter Donohoe writes: ‘The Toccata, in
particular, has always struck me as one of the most joyous pieces in the history
of instrumental music, and Busoni’s transcription certainly brings out
that joy.’

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