🇮🇹Ferruccio Busoni ： Prelude and Fugue “St. Anne” (J.S.Bach) Es-Dur BWV 552

This suite of a prelude and fugue is Busoni’s piano transcription of Bach’s organ work. In the Prelude, weighty successions of chords and an expansive texture shape a stately musical flow. In the following Fugue, the subject passes from voice to voice, intensifying the contrapuntal tension and forward momentum. In performance, it is important to bring out the movement of each voice clearly while using the pedal carefully to keep the sonority transparent. A key point is to contrast the Prelude’s grandeur with the Fugue’s intricate dialogue while preserving the sense of the work’s overall architecture.