Jan Michiels – Bach-Busoni (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Jan Michiels – Bach-Busoni (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:16:58 minutes | 600 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Fuga Libera

For Ferruccio Busoni, Bach’s music was the root and the foundation of piano playing. His many transcriptions confirm this point of view, whilst his monumental Fantasia Contrappuntistica attempts to provide a conclusion to Bach’s unfinished Kunst der Fuge. Busoni received a great deal of criticism for this, to which he replied “the musical art-work exists both within and outside of Time… there is no Old or New. There is only Known or Unknown”. Today — one century and many fashions of “authentic” ways of performing Bach later — is possibly the time to rediscover the true voice of this great musician; for Bach, music was like “a divine child who did not touch the earth with his feet but floated on air”. Jan Michiels takes you into this divine air with an ‘old’ Bechstein from 1860 as well as with a brand new Straight Strung Grand Piano by Chris Maene.

Tracklist:

01. Jan Michiels – Chaconne in D Minor, BV B 24 (Arr. for Piano of Partita No. 2 for Violin, BWV 1004) (13:40)
02. Jan Michiels – Zehn Choralvorspiele, BV B 27: I. Komm, Gott Schöpfer, heiliger Geist, BWV 667 (02:10)
03. Jan Michiels – Zehn Choralvorspiele, BV B 27: II. Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140 (03:16)
04. Jan Michiels – Zehn Choralvorspiele, BV B 27: III. Nun komm’ der Heiden Heiland, BWV 659 (04:19)
05. Jan Michiels – Zehn Choralvorspiele, BV B 27: IV. Nun freut euch, Lieben Christen g’mein, BWV 734a (02:17)
06. Jan Michiels – Zehn Choralvorspiele, BV B 27: V. Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 639 (03:12)
07. Jan Michiels – Zehn Choralvorspiele, BV B 27: VI. Herr Gott, nun schleuss den Himmel auf, BWV 617 (02:03)
08. Jan Michiels – Zehn Choralvorspiele, BV B 27: VII. Durch Adams Fall ist ganz verderbt, BWV 637 (01:46)
09. Jan Michiels – Zehn Choralvorspiele, BV B 27: VIII. Durch Adams Fall ist ganz verderbt, BWV 705 (03:41)
10. Jan Michiels – Zehn Choralvorspiele, BV B 27: IX. In dir ist Freude, BWV 615 (02:44)
11. Jan Michiels – Zehn Choralvorspiele, BV B 27: X. Jesus Christus, unser Heiland, BWV 665 (05:23)
12. Jan Michiels – Fantasia Contrappuntistica, BV 256 (32:21)

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