Bach-Busoni - Toccata and Fugue in D minor (piano solo version)

The Tausig transcription of Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor (BWV 565) is well known and sometimes still performed, but the Busoni version over time has proved more popular. According to Hugo Leichtentritt, Busoni’s “building of the climaxes is more monumental, in simple lines, more thoughtful and much more effective than Tausig’s somewhat arbitrary rise and fall....“ Moreover, Busoni carefully avoids arpeggios, a technique used on piano, but not on organ. As the composer and musicologist Larry Sitsky sa