Word: busoni
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Busoni: Fantasia Contrappuntistica (Egon Petri; Westminster, mono). In this stylistic tour de force, Italian Pianist-Composer Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924) started with a chorale prelude and then, using subjects from an unfinished fugue by Bach, spun out four three-part fugues, one of them built on the name and the four notes B-A-C-H.* Throughout, Busoni gradually modernized his musical vocabulary, ending with a style marked by thick, dissonant clusters of notes. The effect, as presented by Dutch Pianist Petri, is a little like watching a nature film in which plants miraculously blossom and grow before the viewer...