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Busoni: Piano Works

Hommages à Mozart, Bach & Chopin

Roland Pöntinen (piano)

Busoni: Piano Works
Besides his self-evidently first-rate technique, Pöntinen is an expressive player with an impressive stock of tone gradations at his disposal.

Busoni: Piano Works

Hommages à Mozart, Bach & Chopin

Roland Pöntinen (piano)

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Besides his self-evidently first-rate technique, Pöntinen is an expressive player with an impressive stock of tone gradations at his disposal.

About

Roland Pöntinen has recorded a selection of Ferruccio Busoni’s transcriptions and adaptations of works by Mozart, Bach and Chopin. His most famous transcription, a piano arrangement of the Chaconne from Bach's D minor Partita for unaccompanied violin, is featured as well as the Fantasia after J. S. Bach, Ten Variations on a Prelude by Chopin and Giga, Bolero e Variazione (Study after Mozart) from An die Jugend.

Roland Pöntinen has many acclaimed recordings under his belt, has a stupendous technique and is the ideal interpreter for these piano works.

Contents and tracklist

V. Chaconne (Arr. F. Busoni for piano)
Track length14:26
No. 3, Nun komm' der Heiden Heiland, BWV 659
Track length5:06
No. 2, Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 645
Track length3:32
No. 5, Ich ruf' zu dir, Herr, BWV 639
Track length3:07
No. 8, In dir ist Freude, BWV 615
Track length2:19
No. 9, Jesus Christus, unser Heiland, BWV 665
Track length5:31
III. Giga, Bolero e variazioneBolero
Track length4:01
No. 1, An Herrn Albert Biolley
Track length2:53
No. 2, An Francesco Ticciati
Track length1:57
No. 3, In der Art eines Choralvorspiels
Track length4:52

Awards and reviews

July 2012

Besides his self-evidently first-rate technique, Pöntinen is an expressive player with an impressive stock of tone gradations at his disposal.
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