Busoni: Piano Music Vol. 13

Harden, Wolf

8.574613

The final volume in this acclaimed series of Busoni’s piano music focuses on beginnings and endings. Early works and transcriptions are featured, plus a substantial body of music that Busoni wrote for his multi-volume Klavierübung (‘Piano Exercise’). The early miniatures are teasing and witty but also inventive examples of his mastery of Bachian procedure. The excerpts from Klavierübung, in which he uses his own music and that of others, embody the full breadth of his creative vision. They make a fitting end to this series performed by Wolf Harden, whose playing of Busoni has been described as ‘the clear current benchmark’ (BBC Music Magazine on Volume 2, 8.555699).

Works:

•Busoni: Prelude and Fugue in C Minor, Op. 21, BV 85
• Bach, J S: Capriccio sopra la lontananza del suo fratello dilettissimo, BWV 992 (Ed. Ferruccio Busoni)
• Busoni: Menuetto capriccioso in C Major, Op. 61, BV 124
• Beethoven: 6 Écossaises in E-Flat Major, WoO 83 (Concert Version Ed. Ferruccio Busoni)
• Busoni: Klavierübung in 5 Teilen (First Edition), Pt. 1
• Busoni: Klavierübung in 5 Teilen (First Edition), Pt. 2
• Busoni: Klavierübung in 5 Teilen (First Edition), Pt. 3 "Lo staccato": No. 6a, (After A Midsummer Night's Dream)
• Busoni: Klavierübung in 5 Teilen (First Edition), Pt. 5: Perpetuum mobile (After Piano Concertino, Op. 54, BV 292: Movement II), BV 293

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Naxos

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