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Bach: Concerto in D Minor for Piano and Orchestra (Alexander Borovsky and the Lamoureux Orchestra, E. Bigot conducting; Vox, 4 sides). A violin concerto transcribed by Ferruccio Busoni, now one of Bach's most popular piano pieces...
...valley below Tanglewood's Victorian-gabled main house, Guernsey cows grazed amiably around the dairy barn. In the barn stalls a pianist raced through the Bach-Busoni Toccata in C Major; in the hayloft upstairs a madrigal group worked over Purcells 17th-Century masque opera, King Arthur. Somewhere in a clump of birch a lone flutist piped the theme of Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe. Down by the shores of inky Lake Mahkeenac, a brass section blared Moussorgsky's A Night on Bald Mountain, and inside the lakeside clubhouse 23-year-old Composer Lukas Foss, a Koussevitzky...
...which were made with better discrimination and taste. The Bach Chaconne in D Minor as originally written, stands as one of the bulwarks in any competent violinist's repertoire. As it stands today, it is also established in any competent pianist's repertoire, for the transcription by Ferruccio Benvenuto Busoni is second to none in transferring the mood and music accurately to the piano. The Brahms-Haydn Variations, written originally for two pianos, and Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition," originally written for piano, have also profited by transcription...
...most of Shostakovich's later music, there are traces of Beethoven, Berlioz, Rimsky-Korsakov, Mahler, moderns like Poulenc and Busoni. The Seventh Symphony has been described by those who have already heard it as a modern Russian version of Berlioz' Symphonie Fantastique. It has also been called a sound-track for a psychological documentary film on Russia today...
Ferruccio Busoni: Two Sonatinas (Michael Zadora, pianist; Friends of Recorded Music*: 4 sides). Agreeable pieces by a composer whose fame rests almost entirely on his piano transcriptions of Bach organ pieces...