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Johann Sebastian Bach Ferruccio Busoni Nikolai Demidenko - Demidenko Plays BachBusoni (16 tracks) +Album Reviews

| 06/10/2000 (4 out of 5 stars) Weight is the keynote of this CD. There are few performances of these wonderful transcriptions that I know of which are as solemnly broad as these. Demidenko is a great pianist. He is obviously inside Busoni s idiom and he has good recorded sound. His program is excellent, not only for giving us the more recorded pieces like the d minor Toccata and the preludes, but for much less recorded pieces, such as the St Anne Prelude & Fugue, the Capriccio, and the C major Toccata.Comparisons in works like Nun komm are revealing. Demidenko weighs in at just under 7 minutes; Lipatti s famous recording is one second over 4! Undoubtedly, this captures the gravitas of these works, but there are times, as in the Prelude of BWV552 that one could wish for a bit more thrust. Likewise, the opening of the striding C major Toccata sounds unnecessarily portentous, especially by the side of a good performance on the organ.I don t wish to give the impressi

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