Adrian Bradbury – cello
Oliver Davies – piano (Grand Piano by Steinway, New York, 1864)

Bach-Busoni Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue, BWV903
Piatti Fantasia sopra alcuni motivi dell opera Gemma di Vergy di Donizetti
W. Sterndale Bennett Sonata Duo, Op. 32

Currently Artist By-Fellows of Churchill College, Cambridge, Adrian Bradbury and Oliver Davies are engaged in a project to edit and record the operatic fantasies of Alfredo Piatti, including many unperformed since the cellist’s lifetime. They also commemorate two important composer-pianists whose anniversaries fell this April; Bennett was born in 1816 and Busoni fifty years later. Bennett’s Sonata Duo was dedicated to (and first performed with) Piatti in 1852.