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Chaconne In D Minor, BWV 1004 ( Bach- Busoni Editions )

By Composers Johann Sebastian Bach / Ferruccio Busoni

Awadagin Pratt, Pianist

The Bach-Busoni Editions are a series of publications by the Italian Pianist and Composer Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924) containing primarily piano transcriptions of keyboard music by Composer Johann Sebastian Bach. 

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Ferruccio Busoni

( 1 April 1866 – 27 July 1924 )

Happy Birthday, Ferruccio!

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OTD in Music History: Historically important composer, pedagogue, theorist, essayist, and concert pianist Ferruccio Busoni (1866 - 1924) dies in Berlin. From an early age, Busoni was an outstanding, if sometimes controversial, pianist. He studied at the Vienna Conservatory, and thereafter devoted himself to composing, teaching, and touring as a virtuoso concert pianist all across Europe and the United States. Busoni's academic and theoretical writings on music were highly influential in their day, and in them he covered not only aesthetic considerations but also explorations of microtonal harmony and other innovative technical topics. Busoni began composing early on (in a typical "late Romantic" style), but after 1907 -- when he published his "Sketch of a New Aesthetic of Music" -- he developed a much more distinctive and progressive approach, which often flirted with atonality. His visits to America also led to a growing interest in North American indigenous tribal melodies, which was reflected in some of his later works. Although none of Busoni's original music has really remained in the core performance repertoire, it is a fascinating body of work which is well deserving of exploration by pianists who possess strong techniques. The "Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition" was founded in Busoni's honor in 1949, in order to commemorate the 25th anniversary of his death. It remains one of the most important international piano competitions in the world today. In addition -- and fittingly, given that today is also the anniversary of the death of J.S. Bach (1685 - 1750) -- Busoni's virtuoso piano transcriptions of Bach's works continue to hold the concert stage. PICTURED: At atmospheric cabinet photograph of the middle-aged Busoni, shown looking up from a score in his library and casting a penetrating stare into the camera, which he has signed and inscribed to a female admirer in Vienna in 1908. (That admirer, Berta Flatau nee Engel [1889 - 1943], would later tragically perish in a Nazi concentration camp in Poland.)

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Doktor Faust (Zürich, 2006): Reactions, Part II

How much weirder can this get???

we are finally out of Prologue Land but not of Weird Land

so Gretchen/Marguerite/Margherita doesn’t even appear in this opera but her brother does and gets a full-on aria???

“dude I don’t wanna kill this guy even if he wants to kill me”

this is so creepy

sir your odds are not good

what did I tell you

“hey I just got a bunch of people condemned to hell [the brother for revenge and the soldiers for murder in a church, as well as Faust] so yippee me”

okay this is the first thing that looks halfway normal

power couple

you’re onto something there

yes he is very Mysterious and Striking

such intriguing music...

oh you’re gonna get her huh

I hate tiny beards, especially when they’re blue

so Faust is conjuring all these visions at this party I guess???

well THIS is awkward

yeah that killed the mood and the party altogether

the Duchess now wants to run off with Faust

totally not a bad life choice

welp

oh so Faust and the Duchess are flying with magic??? I guess???

okay sure

dude you are so fucking gullible

this is just gonna get weirder isn’t it

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Thomas Hampson - Doktor Faust - Busoni

Orchester der Oper Zurich - P.Jordan,  Klaus Gruber

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I know nothing, Oliver.

Oliver: I like the way you say things. I don't know why you're always putting yourself down though.

Elio: So you won't, maybe?

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Bach-Busoni: Toccata, Adagio and Fugue BWV 564 (Kissin)