JS Bach & Beyond • A Well-Tempered Conversation [Julien Libeer]

A Well-Tempered Conversation

CD 1

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Prelude and Fugue in C major, BWV 846

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Bagatelle in C minor, WoO 52 (Presto)

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Prelude and Fugue in C sharp major, BWV 848

Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
Mazurka in C sharp minor, Op. 50 No. 3 (Moderato)

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Prelude and Fugue in D major, BWV 850

Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
Prelude in D minor, Op. 23 No.3

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Prelude and Fugue in E flat major, BWV 852

Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
Prelude in E flat minor, Op. 103 No. 6

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Prelude and Fugue in E major, BWV 854

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Le Tombeau de Couperin: Fugue (Allegro moderato) in E minor

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Prelude and Fugue in F major, BWV 856

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart  (1756-1791)
Fantasia in F minor for a Mechanical Organ, KV 608 (arr. Busoni)*

CD 2

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Prelude and Fugue in F sharp major, BWV 858

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Capriccio (Un poco agitato) in F sharp minor, Op. 76 No. 1

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Prelude and Fugue in G major, BWV 860 

Dmitry Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Prelude in G minor, Op. 34 No. 22

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Prelude and Fugue in A flat major, BWV 862 

Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924)
Prelude (Andantino) in G sharp minor, Op. 37 No. 12 (BV 181/12)

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Prelude and Fugue in A major, BWV 864

György Ligeti (1923-2006)
Musica ricercata I on A (Sostenuto) 

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Prelude and Fugue in B flat major, BWV 866

Max Reger (1873-1916)
Two-part Canon in B flat minor No. 19

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Prelude and Fugue in B major, BWV 868

Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
Sechs kleine Klavierstücke Op. 19

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Prelude in C major, BWV 846

Julien Libeer (piano)
*Adam Laloum (piano)

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Encounter [Igor Levit]

Encounter

CD 1

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
10 Chorale Preludes BV B 27 (arr. Busoni)

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
6 Chorale Preludes BV B 50 (arr. Busoni)

CD 2

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Vier Ernste Gesänge Op. 121 (arr. Max Reger)

Max Reger (1873-1916)
Nachtlied, Op. 138/3 (arr. Julian Becker)

Morton Feldman (1926-1987)
Palais de Mari

Igor Levit (piano)

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Vida Breve [Stephen Hough]

Vida Breve

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Partita for solo violin No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004: Chaconne (arr. Busoni)

Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 35 "Marche funèbre"

Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Harmonies poétiques et réligieuses, S. 173 No. 7 "Funérailles"
Bagatelle sans tonalité, S. 216a

Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924)
Kammer-Fantasie über Carmen, BV 284

Stephen Hough (°1961)
Piano Sonata No. 4, "Vida breve"

Anonymous
Arirang (arr. Hough)

Charles Gounod (1818-1893)
Ave Maria

Stephen Hough (piano)

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Bach-Busoni [Jan Michiels]

Bach - Busoni

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Partita BWV 1004: Chaconne (arr. Busoni)
Zehn Choralvorspiele

Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924)
Fantasia Contrappuntistica

Jan Michiels (piano)

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Hommage à Chopin [Jonathan Plowright]

Hommage à Chopin

Mili Balakirev (1837-1910)
Impromptu On the Themes of Two Preludes By Chopin

Franz Bendel (1833-1874)
Hommage à Chopin, Op. 111 No. 1

Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
Studie 'Hommage à Chopin', OP. 73 No. 5

Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924)
Nine Variations on a Chopin Prelude, BV 213a

Eduard Nápravník (1839-1916)
Notturno 'La réminiscence de Chopin', Op. 48 No. 1

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Un poco di Chopin, Op. 72 No. 15

Arthur Honegger (1892-1955)
Souvenir de Chopin

Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989)
Three Mazurkas, Op. 32 No. 1

Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959)
Hommage à Chopin

Federico Mompou (1893-1987)
Variations sur un thème de Chopin

Benjamin Godard (1849-1895)
Hommage à Chopin, Op. 66 No. 2

Leopold Godowsky (1870-1938)
Profil 'Chopin'

Theodor Leschetizky (1830-1915)
Hommage à Chopin, Op. 46 No. 9

Jonathan Plowright (piano)

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Busoni: Piano Concerto Op. XXXIX [Marc-André Hamelin, Mark Elder]

Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924)

Piano Concerto in C major, Op. 39

Marc-André Hamelin (piano)
The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Mark Elder

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Busoni: Turandot Suite [Samuel Wong]

Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924)

Turandot Suite Op. 41
Two Studies for "Doktor Faust" Op. 51
Berceuse élégiaque Op. 42

Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra
Samuel Wong

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Bach / Busoni [Maria Tipo]

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924)

Chaconne in D minor BWV 1004
Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV 565
Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C major BWV 564
Prelude and Fugue in D major BWV 532
Prelude and Fugue in E flat major BWV 552

Maria Tipo (piano)

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Sergiu Celibidache conducts Berliner Philharmoniker

Sergiu Celibidache

conducts

Berliner Philharmoniker

CD 1

Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Symphony No. 104 "London"

Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847)
Symphony No. 4 "Italian"

CD 2

Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Jeux

Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)
Piano Concerto¹

Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924)
Violin Concerto²

¹Gerhard Purchel (piano)
²Siegfried Borries (violin)
Berliner Philharmoniker
Sergiu Celibidache

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Busoni: Music for Two Pianos [Allan Schiller, John Humphreys]

Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924)

Music for Two Pianos

Fantasia Contrappuntistica
Improvisation on the Bach Chorale "Wie wohl ist mir, o Freund der Seele"
Fantasie für eine Orgelwalze (Mozart/Busoni)
Duettino concertante nach Mozart

Allan Schiller (piano, John Humphreys (piano)

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The Indian Character Piece [Stephanie Bruning]

The Indian Character Piece

Native-American Influenced Piano Works from the Early 20th Century

Charles Wakefield Cadman (1881-1946)
Idealized Indian Themes Op. 54

John Homer Grunn (1880-1944)
Desert Suite, Op. 7

Arthur Farwell (1877-1952)
The Domain of Hurikan, Op. 15

Amy Marcy Beach (1867-1944)
Eskimos: Four Characteristic Pieces for Pianoforte, Op. 64

George Templeton Strong (1856-1948)
Au pays de peaux-rouges: Suite for Piano

Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924)
Indianisches Tagebuch, Book I

Stephanie Bruning (piano)

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Busoni • Pfitzner • Reger - String Quartets [Austrian String Quartet, Reger Quartet]

Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924)

String Quartet No. 2 in D minor Op. 26

Hans Pfitzner (1869-1949)

String Quartet No. 3 in C minor Op. 50

The Austrian String Quartet

Max Reger (1873-1916)

String Quartet No. 2 in A major Op. 54 No. 2

The Reger Quartet

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Busoni: Arlecchino • Turandot [Kent Nagano]

Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924)

CD 1

Arlecchino

Ernst Theo Richter (baritone), Thomas Mohr (tenor)
Wolfgang Holzmair (baritone), Philippe Huttenlocher (baritone)
Stefan Dahlberg (tenor), Susanne Mentzer (mezzo-soprano)

CD 2

Turandot

Mechthild Gessendorf (soprano), Franz-Josef Selig (bass)
Stefan Dahlberg (tenor), Markus Schäfer (tenor)
Michael Kraus (baritone), Wolfgang Holzmair (baritone)
Falk Struckmann (bass-baritone), Gabriele Sima (soprano)
Anne-Marie Rodde (soprano)

Chœurs et Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon
Kent Nagano

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Éternel Maurice André • CD 12 • Musiques de kiosques

Éternel Maurice André

Musiques de kiosques

CD 12 of 13

Johann Strauss II (1825-1899)

Perpetuum Mobile

Octave Batifort (1841-1889)

Bruxelles

Jean-Baptiste Arban (1825-1889)

Fantasies and Variations on "Le Carnaval de Venise"

Joseph Reynaud

Adan et Eve

Nicolas André (cornet)

Johann Strauss II (1825-1899)

Tritsch-Tratsch Polka

Joseph Reynaud

Merle et Pinson

Nicolas André (cornet)

Claude Pichaureau (1940)

Pierres Sonnantes

Johann Strauss II (1825-1899)

Postillon d'amour

Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880)

ParisiAN DREam

Orchestre de la Garde Républicaine

Roger Boutry

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)

The Flight of the Bumble Bee

Jean-Baptiste Arban (1825-1889)

Le Carnaval de Venise

Grigoras Dinicu (1889-1949)

Hora Staccato

Alexandre Petit

Myrto

Madeleine

Orchestre

Jean Faustin

Gabriel Allier

Pierre et Pierette

Jacque Mas

Coucou Polka

Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924)

Polichinelle

Orchestre

Jacques Mas

Maurice André (trumpets)

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Bach: Nun Komm' Der Heiden Heiland [Edna Stern]

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Nun Komm' Der Heiden Heiland

Préludes, Fugues & Chorals

Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924)

Nun komm der Heiden Heiland , BWV 659 (BC K82)

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Prelude and Fugue No. 2 in C minor (WTC I/2), BWV 847 (BC L81)

Prelude and Fugue No. 15 in G major (WTC I/15), BWV 860 (BC L94)

Prelude and Fugue No. 10 in E minor (WTC I/10), BWV 855 (BC L89)

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

Choral prelude for organ ("Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele"), Op. posth. 122/5

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Prelude and Fugue No. 9 in E major (WTC I/9), BWV 854 (BC L88)

Prelude and Fugue No. 19 in A major (WTC I/19), BWV 864 (BC L98)

Prelude and Fugue No. 6 in D minor (WTC I/6), BWV 851 (BC L85)

Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924)

Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ (Orgel-Büchlein No. 41), BWV 639 (BC K68)

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Prelude and Fugue No. 12 in F minor (WTC I/12), BWV 857 (BC L91)

Prelude and Fugue No. 11 in F major (WTC I/11), BWV 856 (BC L90)

Prelude and Fugue No. 22 in B flat minor (WTC I/22), BWV 867 (BC L101)

Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924)

Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (Schübler Chorale No. 1), BWV 645 (BC K22)

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Prelude and Fugue No. 21 in B flat major (WTC I/21), BWV 866 (BC L100)

Prelude and Fugue No. 17 in A flat major (WTC I/17), BWV 862 (BC L96)

Prelude and Fugue No. 7 in E flat major (WTC I/7), BWV 852 (BC L86)

Edna Stern (piano)

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Dinu Lipatti - Studio Recordings in Geneva, July 1950

Studio Recordings in Geneva, July 1950

CD1

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1760)

Partita No.1 in B flat, BWV 825

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Piano Sonata No. 8 in A minor, K.310

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1760), Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924)

Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland

Ich ruf zu dir, herr Jesu Christ

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1760), Wilhelm Kempff (1895-1991)

Siciliano

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1760), Myra Hess (1890-1965)

Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring

(including appendix of some tracks as released on 78rpm)

CD2

Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)

Waltz No. 4 in F, Op. 34 No.3

Waltz No. 5 in A flat Op. 42, 'Grande Valse'

Waltz No. 6 in D flat, Op. 64 No.1

Waltz No. 9 in A flat, Op. 69 No.1

Waltz No. 7 in E Sharp minor, Op. 64 No.2

Waltz No. 11 in G flat, Op. 70 No.1

Waltz No. 10 in B minor, Op. 69 No.2

Waltz No. 14 In E minor, Op. posth

Waltz No. 3 In A minor, Op. 34 No.2

Waltz No. 8 in A flat, Op. 64 No.3

Waltz No. 12 in F minor, Op. 70 No.2

Waltz No. 13 In D flat, Op. 70 No.3

Waltz No. 1 in E flat Op. 18 'Grande Valse brillante'

Waltz No. 2 in A flat Op. 34 No.1

Mazurka in C sharp minor, Op. 50 No.3

Dinu Lipatti (piano)

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A Mozart Album [Stephen Hough]

A Mozart Album

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Fantasia in C minor, K475

Sonata in B flat major, K333

Fantasia in C minor K396/385f 

Johann Baptist Cramer (1771-1858)

Hommage à Mozart - Étude Op.103 No.6

Ignacy Friedman (1882-1948)

Menuetto in D major (from K334)

Stephen Hough (b1961)

Three Mozart Transformations (after Poulenc)

Franz Liszt (1811-1886), Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924)

Fantasia on two themes from Mozart's 'The Marriage of Figaro'

Stephen Hough (piano)

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Ferrucio Busoni: Piano Concerto [Pietro Scarpini]

Ferrucio Busoni (1866-1924)

Piano Concerto, Op.  39

Pietro Scarpini (piano)

Bavarian Radio Choir

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Rafael Kubelík

(live broadcast 1966, first commercial release 2018)

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Du crépuscule à l'aurore [Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège]

Du crépuscule à l'aurore

Albéric Magnard (1865-1914)

Hymne à Vénus

Sylvain Dupuis (1856-1931)

Macbeth

Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)

Tapiola op. 112

Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924)

Nocturne Symphonique op. 43

Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège

Pierre Bartholomée

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