Bach-Busoni - Chaconne in D minor

- Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (31 March 1685 -- 28 July 1750) - Performer: Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli - Year of recording: 1949 Chaconne {Ciaccona}, transcription for piano in D minor (after J. S. Bach, BWV 1004), KiV B24. Bach’s original solo violin composition written in 1717-1723, piano transcription written by Ferruccio Busoni in 1893. On a day in May 1888, hearing the organist of the Leipzig Thomaskirche play Bach’s Prelude and Fugue in D, Frau Kathi Petri, mother of the great pianist and future Busoni “disciple,“ Egon Petri, suggested to the young Busoni that he arrange it for piano; a week later, and without writing it down, he played it for her. Thus began the series of Bach-Busoni transcriptions, recensions, editions, and Bach-based compositions which would occupy the composer to the end of his life. Exploring the difficulties and opportunities of accommodating Bach to the heavily strung, more powerfully resonant pianos, equipped with Steinway’s