Busoni Piano

Kirill Gerstein, Sakari Oramo, Boston Symphony Orchestra - Ferruccio Busoni: Piano Concerto (2019)

Kirill Gerstein, Sakari Oramo, Boston Symphony Orchestra - Ferruccio Busoni: Piano Concerto (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 319 Mb | Total time: 71:29 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Myrios Classics | MYR024 | Recorded: 2017

Once a towering inspirational figure in the musical life of Berlin, later a crucial influence on musicians as diverse as Sibelius, Varèse, Schoenberg and Weill, Ferruccio Busoni is now being rediscovered by a new generation of performers and listeners.
Marc-André Hamelin, Mark Elder - The Romantic Piano Concerto Vol. 22: Ferruccio Busoni: Piano Concerto (1999)

Marc-André Hamelin, Mark Elder, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra - The Romantic Piano Concerto Vol. 22: Ferruccio Busoni: Piano Concerto (1999)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 302 Mb | Total time: 73:48 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA67143 | Recorded: 1999

The Busoni concerto, with its five movements, choral finale and a length of over 70 minutes, is surely the most grandiose ever written. But this is no over-ambitious monster; Busoni was one of the greatest pianists the world has known, but he was also a great intellectual with very strong views on art and culture. This work is the masterpiece of his middle years, more of a symphony in the breadth and scope of its ideas, but at the same time almost casually requiring the most formidable technical ability from the soloist. There is no doubt that this is one of music's major neglected masterpieces.

Wolf Harden - Busoni: Piano Music, Vol. 9 (2017)  Music

Posted by SERTiL at Sept. 13, 2017
Wolf Harden - Busoni: Piano Music, Vol. 9 (2017)

Wolf Harden - Busoni: Piano Music, Vol. 9
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks)+cue, log, d. booklet | 71:45 min | 195 MB
Label: Naxos – 8.573751 | Tracks: 24 | Rls.date: 2017
Classical, Piano

All the works on this recording were composed when Busoni was between the ages of eleven and fifteen. Full of charm and wit, they reveal his precocious absorption of earlier models- principally Bach, Mozart, Weber and Schumann- as well as exceptional technical finesse. Una festa di villagigio charts the day’s events of a village festival whilst Suite campestre, one of his most distinctive early compositions, possesses moments of inwardness that presage the mature works to come. Wolf Harden, who was born in Hamburg in 1962, is one of the most versatile pianists of his generation.

Wolf Harden - Busoni: Piano Music, Vol. 13 (2024)  Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Nov. 21, 2024
Wolf Harden - Busoni: Piano Music, Vol. 13 (2024)

Wolf Harden - Busoni: Piano Music, Vol. 13 (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless+Booklet | 1:04:22 | 300 Mb
Genre: Classical

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).

Wolf Harden - Busoni: Piano Music, Vol. 13 (2024)  Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Nov. 21, 2024
Wolf Harden - Busoni: Piano Music, Vol. 13 (2024)

Wolf Harden - Busoni: Piano Music, Vol. 13 (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless+Booklet | 1:04:22 | 300 Mb
Genre: Classical

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).
John Ogdon - Ferruccio Busoni: Fantasia Contrappuntistica, Fantasia after J.S. Bach, Toccata (2020)

John Ogdon - Ferruccio Busoni: Fantasia Contrappuntistica, Fantasia after J.S. Bach, Toccata (2020)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 252 MB | 01:00:04
Genre: Classical | Label: Altarus

John Ogdon was one of the great interpreters of Ferruccio Busoni's keyboard music in the first stage of its latter-day revival, and his EMI Angel recording of Busoni's Piano Concerto, Op. 39, can be said to have "made" that work as a viable, if impractical, concert staple. Between that triumph in 1967 and the recordings on Altarus' Busoni: Piano Works, made in 1988 – the last full year of Ogdon's short life – there were a host of detours and disappointments for the pianist. A nervous breakdown or two, long hospitalizations, longer absences from the concert stage, and a comeback received lukewarmly by critics were all hallmarks of a career that would have stopped lesser men cold.
Bach, Kurtag, Busoni - Piano Duet - GrauSchumacher Piano Duo (2007)

Bach, Kurtág, Busoni - Piano Duet - GrauSchumacher Piano Duo (2007)
Classical | EAC: FLAC+Cue+Log | 1 Cd, Covers | 273 Mb
Label: col legno - Date: 2007

Andreas Grau and Götz Schumacher, with their talent for putting together clever and innovative programs, have established themselves as one of the world's top piano duos. Their cooperation at the piano is evidence that the two expert pianists are nothing short of musical soul mates…
John Ogdon - Ferruccio Busoni: Fantasia Contrappuntistica, Fantasia after J.S. Bach, Toccata (2020)

John Ogdon - Ferruccio Busoni: Fantasia Contrappuntistica, Fantasia after J.S. Bach, Toccata (2020)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 252 MB | 01:00:04
Genre: Classical | Label: Altarus

John Ogdon was one of the great interpreters of Ferruccio Busoni's keyboard music in the first stage of its latter-day revival, and his EMI Angel recording of Busoni's Piano Concerto, Op. 39, can be said to have "made" that work as a viable, if impractical, concert staple. Between that triumph in 1967 and the recordings on Altarus' Busoni: Piano Works, made in 1988 – the last full year of Ogdon's short life – there were a host of detours and disappointments for the pianist. A nervous breakdown or two, long hospitalizations, longer absences from the concert stage, and a comeback received lukewarmly by critics were all hallmarks of a career that would have stopped lesser men cold.

Wolf Harden - Busoni: Piano Music, Vol. 10 (2018)  Music

Posted by delpotro at March 14, 2018
Wolf Harden - Busoni: Piano Music, Vol. 10 (2018)

Wolf Harden - Busoni: Piano Music, Vol. 10 (2018)
MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 01:14:13 | 170 Mb
Classical | Label: Naxos Records

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. Wolf Harden I one of the most versatile pianists of his generation. He has enjoyed great success in the Trio Fontenay, an ensemble that he founded in 1980 and with which he has toured to all the world’s major music centres. Harden devotes himself not only to chamber music but, with the same success, to the solo piano repertoire.

Geoffrey Douglas Madge - Busoni: Piano Works, Vol. 2 (2008)  Music

Posted by tirexiss at Oct. 20, 2019
Geoffrey Douglas Madge - Busoni: Piano Works, Vol. 2 (2008)

Geoffrey Douglas Madge - Busoni: Piano Works, Vol. 2 (2008)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 02:02:58 | 533 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Philips | Catalog: 420742

Busoni needs listening to in extenso, troughs (not deep ones) as well as peaks. He was the first to acknowledge that his mature style was late in developing, but he was no late starter: the earliest music here, and pretty accomplished it is too, was written at 12 years old and by the age of 18 he had written the remarkable Variations and Fugue on Chopin's C minor Prelude, a tour de force of late nineteenth-century pianism and sonorous inventiveness.