The Fantasia Contrappuntistica is one of the grandest and most ambitious of all Busoni's piano works, and the climax of his reverence for JS Bach. The half-hour-long work, which reached its final form in 1910, is a completion of the last contrapunctus from The Art of Fugue that Bach left unfinished at his death. It's a feat of compositional ingenuity that moves far beyond the harmonic horizons of Bach's era and into territory that was very much Busoni's own, but it's more a work to admire than enjoy, though Hamish Milne's performance is wonderfully spacious. He completes his disc with equally convincing accounts of two of Busoni's homages to other composers high in his personal pantheon. The arrangement of Liszt's Fantasy and Fugue on the Chorale Ad Nos Ad Salutarem Undam is a much more straightforward piano transcription of the vast original for organ, though still full of miraculous reworkings, while Andantino takes the slow movement of Mozart's E flat Piano Concerto K271 and reconceives it as a piece for piano alone.