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)
1Trascrizione di concerto sopra motivi dell'opera Merlin17:40
Harden, Wolf (piano)
Harden, Wolf (piano)
2Fantasie uber Motive aus Der Barbier von Bagdad von Peter Cornelius09:38
Harden, Wolf (piano)
Harden, Wolf (piano)
3Klavierübung in 5 Teilen (first edition, 1917-22), Part III, "Lo staccato": No. 2. Variations-Studie nach Mozart No. 1 after Serenata from Don Giovanni01:39
Harden, Wolf (piano)
Harden, Wolf (piano)
4Wagner - Gotterdammerung, Act III: Siegfrieds Trauermarsch08:07
Harden, Wolf (piano)
Harden, Wolf (piano)
5Piano Sonatina No. 3, "ad usum infantis"06:45
Harden, Wolf (piano)
Harden, Wolf (piano)
6Piano Sonatina No. 6 super Carmen, "Kammerfantasie"07:59
Harden, Wolf (piano)
Harden, Wolf (piano)
7No. 1. Sostenuto03:12
Harden, Wolf (piano)
8No. 2. Andante molto tranquillo e legato01:29
Harden, Wolf (piano)
9No. 3. Allegro02:18
Harden, Wolf (piano)
10No. 4. Preludio: Andante tranquillo04:21
Harden, Wolf (piano)
11No. 5. Adagio05:03
Harden, Wolf (piano)

Total Playing Time: 01:08:11