At Gail Niwa’s piano recital Sunday at Orchestra Hall, it was easy to hear why the young Chicago pianist already has racked up so many competition victories, including the gold medal at the 1991 Gina ...
Ferruccio Busoni was better known for his piano transcriptions of music by Bach than he was for his own music. In concert at the University of Georgia, pianist Andre Watts plays Busoni's arrangement ...
Each to Chaconne: To the ‘Three Bs,’ Pianist Hélène Grimaud Makes a Case for Adding a Fourth: Busoni
To the “Three Bs” of the classical pantheon — Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms — pianist Hélène Grimaud makes a strong case for the addition of a fourth: The composer, pianist, and conductor Ferruccio ...
Think of musical perfection and you think of JS Bach. Every note perfectly placed, every harmonic sequence pleasing in its logic, every extended structure immaculately organised. Crucially, Bach's ...
Being called by some a failed city, San Francisco struggles to recover from the pandemic. The view from the street is all too often that of an appalling income divide in which the Silicon rich who ...
We often hear about the transcriptions Ferrucio Busoni made of music by Bach. But Busoni occasionally turned his attention to music by composers other than Bach, composers like Georges Bizet. From a ...
Arguably the greatest pianist of his time, the legacy of Ferruccio Busoni (1866–1924) is perpetuated through his popular piano transcriptions and futuristic musical thinking. Commemorating the ...
On this week’s episode, we’re celebrating Johann Sebastian Bach’s birthday with an hour of music written and inspired by the great composer. Excerpted from the Violin Partita Number 2 in D minor, the ...
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