Fantasia 2Cd's

Launch September 29, 2023

Edition 2 CDs

Igor Levit's new double album Fantasia presents a wide range of works spanning a period of almost two centuries, from 1720 to 1910, and showcases key compositions by Franz Liszt, Ferruccio Busoni, Johann Sebastian Bach and Alban Berg.

The starting point of the four paradigmatic works of the double album is the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Levit has chosen Bach's exceptional Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue in D minor and combined it with Liszt's Sonata in B minor, a highly charged piece that at the time of its composition looked very far into the future (and which Levit performs currently with great success around the world), along with Busoni's Fantasia contrapuntistica, in which Busoni perpetuated the Bach tradition, and Alban Berg's only Piano Sonata. These four great works are completed by four shorter pieces: 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 an early piece for piano in B minor by Alban Berg. The CD comes with o-card and will be released internationally by Sony Classical.