Composer(s): Busoni, Ferruccio
Artist(s): Harden, Wolf
Label: Naxos
Series: 19th/20th Century Italian Classics
Genre: Instrumental
Period: 20th Century
Catalogue No: 8.572422
Barcode: 747313242276
Release Date: 12/2010

BUSONI, F.: Piano Music, Vol. 7 - Trascrizione di concerto sopra motivi dell'opera Merlin / Piano Sonatinas Nos. 3 and 6 (Harden)

The essence of Ferruccio Busoni’s music lies in its synthesis of his Italian and German ancestry, emotion and intellect, imagination and rigour. This seventh volume in Naxos’s highly-praised series brings together several virtuosic operatic transcriptions, paraphrases and fantasies, as well as demanding studies and two piano sonatinas. ‘Wolf Harden is a stupendous pianist who can deliver what Busoni demands and then some’ (American Record Guide on Vol. 2, 8.555699).

Tracklist

Busoni, Ferruccio
Harden, Wolf (piano)
1 Trascrizione di concerto sopra motivi dell'opera Merlin 17:40
Harden, Wolf (piano)
Harden, Wolf (piano)
2 Fantasie uber Motive aus Der Barbier von Bagdad von Peter Cornelius 09:38
Harden, Wolf (piano)
Harden, Wolf (piano)
3 Klavierübung in 5 Teilen (first edition, 1917-22), Part III, "Lo staccato": No. 2. Variations-Studie nach Mozart No. 1 after Serenata from Don Giovanni 01:39
Harden, Wolf (piano)
Harden, Wolf (piano)
4 Wagner - Gotterdammerung, Act III: Siegfrieds Trauermarsch 08:07
Harden, Wolf (piano)
Harden, Wolf (piano)
5 Piano Sonatina No. 3, "ad usum infantis" 06:45
Harden, Wolf (piano)
Harden, Wolf (piano)
6 Piano Sonatina No. 6 super Carmen, "Kammerfantasie" 07:59
Harden, Wolf (piano)
Harden, Wolf (piano)
7 No. 1. Sostenuto 03:12
Harden, Wolf (piano)
8 No. 2. Andante molto tranquillo e legato 01:29
Harden, Wolf (piano)
9 No. 3. Allegro 02:18
Harden, Wolf (piano)
10 No. 4. Preludio: Andante tranquillo 04:21
Harden, Wolf (piano)
11 No. 5. Adagio 05:03
Harden, Wolf (piano)

Total Playing Time: 01:08:11