New Recording Of Busoni's 'Piano Concerto' Is An.
Bach-Busoni Chaconne. A Piano Transcription Analysis by Marina Fabrikant A Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of The Graduate College at the University of Nebraska In Partial Fulfillment of Requirements For the Degree of Doctor of Musical Arts Major: Music Under the Supervision of Professor. Mark K. Clinton Lincoln, Nebraska May, 2006.
Busoni, in an essay of 1910 entitled “Value of the Transcription,” wrote that in. and Busoni’s Concerto (which was written at the time of his interest in. substantial article about Alkan and a comprehensive book on Busoni’s piano music (Sitsky 1974, 1986).
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Busoni’s Piano Concerto is the summation of his youth, his first period. My long programme note was written (for John Ogdon) in my early manhood. Maturity should read it in perspective, rather than critically in hindsight. Effusion is germane to both the music and my writing on it.
Once you meet Busoni’s Piano Concerto, you don’t tend to forget it. Comparisons range between a many-headed dragon, a Protean monster and a raging Leviathan. It’s nearly 75 minutes long (its central movement alone is nearly 25!), requires a monstrous range of orchestral and pianistic effects, and culminates in a male chorus singing a mystical hymn to Allah.
The other article is by the most important English-speaking writer on the subject of Busoni’s piano music, Larry Sitsky, whose article is about the piano concerto in particular; There are also a number of rare or previously unpublished images and photographs, one of which shows the frontispiece of the score: Busoni described the first, third and fifth movements of the concerto as the more.
Here is a CD reissue that collectors have sought for decades: John Ogdon's magnificent 1967 EMI Angel recording of Ferruccio Busoni's Piano Concerto, Op. 39, with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under Daniell Revenaugh.This was the first commercial recording of Busoni's elephantine concerto, which is in five movements, calls for male chorus in the last movement and lasts as long as Beethoven.
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There is nothing quite like the piano music of Ferruccio Busoni: muscular, quirky, intellectual but energetic—and exhilarating to hear. Born to musician parents from Trieste, then part of the Austrian Empire, Busoni (1866-1924) had an international career as piano virtuoso, composer, conductor and teacher (whose pupils ranged from Percy Grainger to Edgard Varese).
In addition to numerous sonatas, trios and quartets in which the violin plays a prominent part, by 1802 Beethoven had gone beyond chamber music to write two romances for violin and orchestra (Opp. 40 and 50) whose simplicity and lyricism evoke the French style of the 1770s, and in 1804 he produced a “triple concerto” for violin, cello, piano and orchestra (Op. 56) that harked back to the.
FERRUCCIO BUSONI AS A COMPOSER By HUGO LEICHTENTRITT. It is the purpose of the present essay to analyze the rather complicated character of Busoni the composer,. Piano concerto, Turandot suite, opera Brautwahl, Elegies and first Sonatina for piano, Berceuse 70.
Pianist Garrick Ohlsson has been a regular guest soloist with The Cleveland Orchestra for over forty years, often in the great Romantic piano concertos. His seemingly unlimited technical skills and grasp of the Romantic style make him a natural for Ferruccio Busoni’s monumental Piano Concerto in C major, Op.39, first performed in 1904, in five movements totaling 70 minutes.
