Fantasia - Bach, Schubert, Liszt, Busoni, Berg / Igor Levit
Igor Levit’s new double album Fantasia features a wide range of works spanning a period of almost two centuries from 1720 to 1910 and showcases key compositions by Franz Liszt, Ferruccio Busoni, Johann Sebastian Bach and Alban Berg. The starting point of the four paradigmatic works featured on the double album is the music of Johann Sebastian Bach.
Levit has chosen Bach’s exceptional Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue in D minor and combined it with Liszt’s B minor Sonata, a highly charged piece that at the time of its composition looked far ahead into the future (which Levit is currently performing to great acclaim all over the world), together with Busoni’s Fantasia contrappuntistica, in which Busoni perpetuated the Bach tradition, and Alban Berg’s only Piano Sonata. These four major works are complemented by four shorter pieces including Alexander Siloti’s arrangement of the famous Air from Bach’s Third Orchestral Suite, Liszt’s transcription of Schubert’s song Der Doppelgänger, Busoni’s Nuit de Noël and an early piano piece in B minor by Alban Berg. The CD comes with o-card and will be released internationally by Sony Classical.
Product Description:
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Release Date: September 29, 2023
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Catalog Number: 19658811642
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UPC: 196588116421
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Label: Sony Music Entertainment
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Number of Discs: 2
Composer: Franz Schubert, Franz Liszt, Alban Berg, Ferruccio Busoni, Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer: Igor Levit
Works:
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Suite for String Orchestra No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1068: Air (arr. for piano by A. Siloti)
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer: Igor Levit (Piano)
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Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 903
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer: Igor Levit (Piano)
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Piano Sonata in B Minor, S. 178
Composer: Franz Liszt
Performer: Igor Levit (Piano)
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Der Doppelgänger, S . 560, No. 12 (arr. for piano by F. Liszt)
Composer: Franz Schubert
Performer: Igor Levit (Piano)
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Klavierstück in B Minor
Composer: Alban Berg
Performer: Igor Levit (Piano)
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Piano Sonata, Op. 1
Composer: Alban Berg
Performer: Igor Levit (Piano)
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Fantasia contrappuntistica, BV 256
Composer: Ferruccio Busoni
Performer: Igor Levit (Piano)
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Nuit de Noël, BV 251
Composer: Ferruccio Busoni
Performer: Igor Levit (Piano)