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Adagio & Fugue, BWV 906/968
Chorale Prelude 'Komm, Gott Schöpfer, heiliger Geist', BWV 667
Prelude & Fugue in E minor, BWV 533
Prelude & Fugue in D major, BWV 532
Chorale Prelude 'Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme', BWV 645
Partita for solo violin No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004 - Chaconne
Chorale Prelude 'Herr Gott, nun schleuß den Himmel auf', BWV 617
Chorale Prelude 'Durch Adam's Fall ist ganz verderbt', BWV 637
Chorale Prelude 'In dir ist Freude', BWV 615
Chorale Prelude 'Jesu Christus, unser Heiland', BWV 665

Following the success of Nikolai Demidenko's first disc of Busoni's transcriptions of Bach (CDA66566), here he completes the project. Busoni developed an individual approach to re-casting Bach's organ works for the piano, and utilizes a full range of sonorities to recreate the sound and effects of the organ. These transcriptions were so popular during Busoni's lifetime that his wife was once introduced by a society patron as Mrs Bach-Busoni! 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.

10 DE RÉPERTOIRE

'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 a l’art de Busoni, dont ces compositions constituent elles-memes un vibrant hommage au génie de Bach' (Répertoire, France)

'Il [Nikolai Demidenko] possede une véritable affinité et une intelligence de cette musique, qui apparaît tres claire, sinon toujours a 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)

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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;