Busoni: Piano Music, Vol. 2

"Wolf Harden, in the second of his Busoni series for Naxos, presents a well-chosen mixture of familiar and less well-known. The towering 1884 Variations and Fugue on Chopin's C minor Prelude - an amazing demonstration of mastery for an 18 year-old composer - follow the Theme and Variations written when Busoni was a mere seven and the Inno Variations from the following year. It's astonishing that a seven-year-old could write such music."
- Martin Anderson, International Record Review June 2002

"This disc maintains the high standards set by Harden in his first volume of Busoni piano music. It begins with an unusually eloquent and beautifully shaped rendition of one of the most famous of all the 'Bach-Busoni' transcriptions... The original [version of Busoni's Variations and Fugue on Chopin's Prelude in C minor]... is a splendid demonstration of his awesome compositional and pianistic powers age 18, and Harden's account is the clear current benchmark."
- Calum MacDonald, BBC Music Magazine, March 2002