Busoni: Piano Music, Vol. 10 [transcriptions]

 
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FERRUCCIO BUSONI
Busoni: Piano Music, Vol. 10 [transcriptions]
Wolf Harden (piano)

[ Naxos / CD ]

Release Date: Monday 29 January 2018

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Busoni embodied an essentially recreative approach to the music of the past. His Bach transcriptions reveal an absolute command of intricate polyphony and a limpid clarity. Mozart stood as an aesthetic and technical exemplar while Cramer's little-known Etudes are adapted for modern piano technique. Busoni preserved the Lutheran austerity of Brahms's Chorale Preludes for Organ, Op. 122 whereas in the Mephisto Waltz No. 1 he augments Liszt's heady writing with a super-virtuosity of his own.

"The most intriguing tracks on this recording are the Brahms Chorale Preludes for Organ Op.122 in which Brahms' Romanticism is augmented by Busoni's often heroic keyboard style. Harden plays this with such perfect balance, preserving the sacred nature of the chorales while allowing Busoni to restate them in his own unique terms." The WholeNote