Ferruccio Busoni
Ferruccio Busoni's Bach transcriptions give organ counterpoint the weight and colour of the concert grand, as in the joyous E-flat Prelude and Fugue. He also wrote large-scale piano, orchestral and stage works in a style that grew steadily more individual.
As pianist and thinker he treated every score as a fresh problem rather than a fixed text. The Bach-Busoni editions became a touchstone of late-Romantic keyboard rewriting, opulent and driven rather than merely faithful. His Piano Concerto stretches past an hour and calls for an offstage male chorus. Later pieces lean toward freer harmony and, in the Indian Fantasy, melodies drawn from North American tribal sources. Chamber music, cadenzas, essays on aesthetics and microtones, and the unfinished opera Doktor Faust sit beside the transcriptions through which many listeners still first meet his name.
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David Stanhope Plays
David Stanhope is known throughout Australia as one of the few resident conductors of note. His talents are much broader: a prolific composer, especially of wind band music (see TP107), and a pianist of formidable technique.