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"Where words leave off, music begins." - Heinrich Heine

Ferruccio Busoni

Busoni was a man with many faces. He was born in Tuscany from a German mother and Italian father, and settled down in Berlin, after visiting Leipzig, Helsinki and Moscow. There he established himself as a composer, but above all a phenomenal pianist. His music shows some discrepancies. On the one hand, he looks back on the Romantic period with his giant pianoconcerto with male choir as the absolute pinnacle. On the onder hand, he looks forward to the future and found that music had to be freed of the chains of outdated ideas. In his much-read manifest 'Entwurf einer neuen Ästhetik der Tonkunst’ (1907), Busoni sketches his ideal image of music, and in his Six Sonatinas for piano he presented these ideas musically. In his unfinished opera Doctor Faust, all discrepancies come together as the main character himself is a curious mix of seemingly incompatible elements, just like Busoni. 

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Ferruccio Busoni
Busoni Piano Concerto
Kirill Gerstein, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo, Men of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus
Ferruccio Busoni, Franz Liszt
Plays Busoni and Liszt
Pietro Scarpini
Various composers
Live in Taiwan 1998
Sergio Fiorentino
Various composers
Fuck Digital (vinyl)
James Rhodes
Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Liszt, Ferruccio Busoni
Odyssey
Frederic D' Oria-Nicolas
Various composers
Chaconne
Sofya Gulyak
Ferruccio Busoni, Johannes Brahms, Max Reger
Edition Klavier-Festival Ruhr Vol. 35
Christopher Park & others
The Visionary Vol. III
Jeni Slotchiver
Busoni: Pianoworks
Christopher O'Riley
Various composers
James Rhodes Live in Brighton
James Rhodes