Fantasia

Description

The new double album "Fantasia" by Igor Levit presents a wide range of works spanning nearly two centuries, from 1720 to 1910, as well as key compositions by Franz Liszt, Ferruccio Busoni, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Alban Berg. The starting point for the four paradigmatic works featured on the double album is the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Levit chose Bach's exceptional Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D minor and combined it with Liszt's Sonata in B minor, a highly charged work that, at the time of its composition, was forward-looking (which Levit is currently performing with great success worldwide), as well as with Busoni's Fantasia contrappuntistica, in which Busoni perpetuates Bach's tradition, and with Alban Berg's unique 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 a piano piece in B minor by Alban Berg. The CD comes with a greeting card and will be distributed worldwide by Sony Classical.