Composer: Ferruccio Busoni
Performer: Marc-André Hamelin
Number of Discs: 3
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Hyperion
Catalogue: CDA67951-3
Release: 2013
Size: 2.87 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
CD 01
Elegies, BV 249
01. I. Nach der Wendung. Recueillement
02. II. All’Italia! In modo napolitano
03. III. Meine Seele bangt und hofft zu Dir. Choralvorspiel
04. IV. Turandots Frauengemach. Intermezzo
05. V. Die Nächtlichen. Walzer
06. VI. Erscheinung. Notturno
07. VII. Berceuse
08. Nuit de Noël, BV 251
09. Fantasia After J. S. Bach, BV 253
10. Canonic Variations and Fugue, BV B40
An die Jugend, BV 254
11. III. Giga, bolero e variazione. Studies After Mozart
CD 02
01. Sonatina, BV 257
02. Sonatina seconda, BV 259
Sonatina No. 3, BV 268 “ad usum infantis Madeline M* Americanae”
03. I. Molto tranquillo
04. II. Andantino melancolico
05. III. Vivace. Alla marcia
06. IV. Molto tranquillo
07. V. Polonaise. Un poco cerimonioso
08. Sonatina No. 4, BV 274 “in diem nativitatis Christi MCMXVII”
09. Sonatina No. 5, BV 280 “in signo Joannis Sebastiani Magni”
10. Kammer-Fantasie über Carmen, BV 284 “Sonatina No. 6”
11. Indianisches Erntelied (1911)
Indianisches Tagebuch I, BV 267
12. I. Allegretto affettuoso, un poco agitato
13. II. Vivace
14. III. Andante
15. IV. Maestoso ma andando
3 Albumblätter, BV 289
16. No. 1, Andantino sostenuto
17. No. 2, Andante
18. No. 3, In the Style of a Chorale Prelude. Sostenuto religioso
CD 03
01. Toccata “Preludio, Fantasia, Ciaccona”, BV 287
02. Prologo, BV 279
Klavierübung (1925 2nd Edition)
03. Book 2: Preludio “Allegro festivo”
04. Book 5: Preludio “Without the Third Finger, Moderato alla breve”
05. Book 5: Veloce e leggiero
06. Book 6: Vivace moderato, con precisione
07. Book 6: Variations-Studie nach Mozart I (Serenade from Don Giovanni)
08. Book 6: Motive “Allegro risoluto”
09. Book 6: Allegro
10. 9 Variations on a Prelude by Chopin, BV 213a (1925 Version)
7 Short Pieces for the Cultivation of Polyphonic Playing, BV 296
11. No. 1, Preludietto. Allegro
12. No. 2, Sostenuto – Poco più andante
13. No. 3, Andante molto tranquillo e legato
14. No. 4, Allegro
15. No. 5, Preludio: Andante tranquillo
16. No. 6, Nach Mozart. Adagio
17. No. 7, With the Use of the Third Pedal (Steinway & Sons Sustaining Pedal). Andantino tranquillo
18. Perpetuum mobile, BV 293
Prélude et étude en arpèges, BV 297
19. I. Prélude. Arioso-volante ma tranquillo
20. II. Etude. Allegro
‘Hamelin mastered its rising and falling cascades of scales, biting rhythms and thunderous textures as though he was Busoni himself’ (The Birmingham News, USA)
Marc-André Hamelin is indisputably the king of Busoni pianists. He triumphantly masters the extraordinary technical difficulties and contrapuntal complexities this composer presents. This generously priced triple album offers most of Busoni’s mature works and the widest selection of pieces from the Klavierübung so far recorded, many of them for the first time.