Busoni - Piano Music Vol.4
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Label: Naxos
Cat No: 8570543
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 28th July 2008
Contents
Works
Prelude and Fugue in D major, BWV532 (arr. Busoni)Elegies (7), BV249
Fantasia nach JS Bach
Toccata 'Preludio, Fantasia, Ciaccona', BV287
Artists
Wolf Harden (piano)About
Busoni regarded his Elegien as the point where he discovered his true identity as a composer. Even at his most radical, however, Busoni never rejected what had gone before; the Elegien alternate between new works and transcriptions of older pieces.
Drawing on Bach organ pieces, Fantasia after J.S. Bach may sound backward looking in context, but its concept points determinedly towards the future.
Toccata was completed while Busoni was engaged in earnest on his crowning achievement, the music-drama Doktor Faust, whose essence pervades this most virtuosic yet also aggressive of the composer’s later piano works.
“This disc maintains the high standards set by Harden in his first volume of Busoni piano music... A splendid demonstration of his awesome compositional and pianistic powers aged 18, and Harden’s account is the clear current benchmark.” - BBC Music Magazine on Vol.2 (8.555699)
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