The title is not quite right: back to Bach is where period-style performers take us; this is rather “what Bach did next”, the expanding story of a great baroque composer turned into a 19th-century ...

Playing Brahms’s transcriptions of Bach and Handel, then Reger and Busoni takes on Brahms, Tsoy contemplates creativity across centuries in this fine recital Elegantly constructed and intimate, this ...

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 ...

Sonatina No. 2, `Sonatina seconda' Peter Donohoe, Piano Karl Lutchmayer, Piano Sonatina No. 5, `Sonatina brevis in signo Joannis Peter Donohoe, Piano Variations and Fugue on Chopin's C minor Prelude ...

Jan Michiels previously recorded four of Busoni’s Bach chorale prelude transcriptions and Busoni’s Fantasia contrappuntistica for a 2010 release on the Etcetera label. These remakes mainly differ in ...

Anyone expecting a performance of Johann Sebastian Bach’s complete Goldberg Variations could have been forgiven for feeling like somebody who had turned up to the wrong wedding at Hong Kong City Hall ...

Anyone planning to give the gift of music for Christmas should seriously consider Aristo Sham’s new solo piano album. Timeline, released by Universal Music Hong Kong on November 7, is a thoughtfully ...

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 ...