Peter Donohoe, Karl Lutchmayer – Busoni: Fantasia Contrappuntistica, Chopin Variations, Sonatina Prima & Seconda (2025) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

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Peter Donohoe, Karl Lutchmayer – Busoni: Fantasia Contrappuntistica, Chopin Variations, Sonatina Prima & Seconda (2025)
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Peter Donohoe’s first album devoted to Busoni was enthusiastically received by the critics, and nominated for a BBC Music Magazine award. This second volume offers playing and musicality of the same high standards. His programme opens with two of Busoni’s finest Bach transcriptions, widely seen as a pinnacle of the repertoire for pianistic virtuosity, and much more widely played than Busoni’s own compositions. This is followed by the Variations on Chopin’s Prelude in C minor – a work in which Busoni demonstrates his innate skill of re-interpretation, and his mastery of counterpoint, and a piece he reworked several times. The following works are ‘all Busoni’ – the first and second sonatinas, and the Fantasia contrappuntistica, in the composer’s later adaptation for two pianos. The first Steinway Artist of Indian origin, Karl Lutchmayer is equally renowned as a concert pianist, a lecturer, and a broadcaster. He joins Peter Donohoe in the Fantasia, and also performs the Second Sonatina.

Tracklist:

1-01. Peter Donohoe – Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BV B 29 (After J.S. Bach’s BWV 565): I. Toccata (02:41)
1-02. Peter Donohoe – Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BV B 29 (After J.S. Bach’s BWV 565): II. Fugue (05:37)
1-03. Peter Donohoe – Prelude and Fugue in D Major, BV B 20 (After J.S. Bach’s BWV 532): I. Prelude (05:23)
1-04. Peter Donohoe – Prelude and Fugue in D Major, BV B 20 (After J.S. Bach’s BWV 532): II. Fugue (05:44)
1-05. Peter Donohoe – Variations and Fugue in Free Form, BV 213 (After Chopin’s Prelude Op. 28 No. 10) (12:41)
1-06. Peter Donohoe – Sonatina prima, BV 257 (09:53)
1-07. Karl Lutchmayer – Sonatina seconda, BV 259 (10:26)
1-08. Peter Donohoe – Fantasia contrappuntistica, BV 256b (Version for 2 Pianos): Preludio corale (10:03)
1-09. Peter Donohoe – Fantasia contrappuntistica, BV 256b (Version for 2 Pianos): Fuga I (02:01)
1-10. Peter Donohoe – Fantasia contrappuntistica, BV 256b (Version for 2 Pianos): Fuga II (02:16)
1-11. Peter Donohoe – Fantasia contrappuntistica, BV 256b (Version for 2 Pianos): Fuga III (05:26)
1-12. Peter Donohoe – Fantasia contrappuntistica, BV 256b (Version for 2 Pianos): Intermezzo (01:23)
1-13. Peter Donohoe – Fantasia contrappuntistica, BV 256b (Version for 2 Pianos): Variazione I (01:09)
1-14. Peter Donohoe – Fantasia contrappuntistica, BV 256b (Version for 2 Pianos): Variazione II (00:48)
1-15. Peter Donohoe – Fantasia contrappuntistica, BV 256b (Version for 2 Pianos): Variazione III (01:03)
1-16. Peter Donohoe – Fantasia contrappuntistica, BV 256b (Version for 2 Pianos): Cadenza (01:05)
1-17. Peter Donohoe – Fantasia contrappuntistica, BV 256b (Version for 2 Pianos): Fuga IV (01:49)
1-18. Peter Donohoe – Fantasia contrappuntistica, BV 256b (Version for 2 Pianos): Corale – Stretta (02:47)
1-19. Peter Donohoe – Sonatina brevis, BV 280 (04:59)