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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

‘So sensitive and personal’ – that’s how Patrick Rucker described Schubert’s F minor Fantasie in the hands of Samson Tsoy and his partner Pavel Kolesnikov (Harmonia Mundi, 7/24). It’s no surprise that ...