Toccata in d minor for Organ, BWV.565 (Arrangement for Piano)
Description
Bach/Busoni - a pairing that makes pianists' hearts beat faster.
This is because Busoni succeeded in making piano transcriptions of
works that Bach had originally tailor-made for another instrument
in such a way that one can still sense the original sound world
while the grand piano is able to show off its full potential.
Together with the C-major Toccata, BWV 564, his transcription of
the Organ Toccata in D minor, BWV 565 (now, after some interim
uncertainty, once more considered a work by Bach), was to round off
his reworkings of Bach for Breitkopf & Härtel in 1900. In Busoni's
view a worthy culmination because the toccatas were indeed - as he
informed his publisher - "obviously the best among my achievements
of this kind and I am confident in expecting they will make a
strong impact".
G. Henle Publishers agrees with this assessment and presents the
famous D-minor Toccata and Fugue in an attractive Urtext edition
that has consulted all of the sources and offers fingerings by the
exceptional pianist Marc-André Hamelin.
- Winkel Antwerpen : Available