classical music: Ferruccio Busoni

classical music: Ferruccio Busoni

classical music:

Ferruccio Busoni

Martha Argerich & Friends Live from the Lugano Festival, 2007

Jorge Bosso, Marc Drobinsky, ...

EMI Classics, 2008

More great chamber music from Lugano, even with an overload of piano duos
Before commenting on the contents of the latest installment of chamber music from the Lugano Festival in Switzerland, here's the detailed playlist: Bartók: Violin Sonata No. 1, Sz 75 Renaud Capuçon (violin) & Martha Argerich (piano) Beethoven: Piano Trio ...

Beethoven, Schumann, Brahms: Violin Sonatas

Bela Bartok, Ludwig van Beethoven, ...

Deutsche Grammophon, 2004

excellent value and performances
Like the other entries in DG's "Collector's Editions", the eight discs come in envelopes and a compact box with a liner note booklet. This box includes all of the Beethoven violin sonatas (3 full discs) Kremer recorded in the late eighties and early nineties. The ...

Complete Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon

Ferruccio Busoni, Frederic Chopin, ...

Deutsche Grammophon, 2003

Horowitz: A Digital Legacy
This set includes all of the recordings Vladimir Horowitz did for Deutsche Grammophon in the 1980s, including his historical concert in Moscow. While the context of his return in Moscow is moving, the studio recordings are simply wonderful. The sound quality is ...

Busoni: Piano Concerto

Ferruccio Busoni, Garrick Ohlsson, ...

Telarc, 2002

Thinking Big
For those who have not had the pleasure of hearing a rare live performance of Ferruccio Busoni's Piano Concerto Opus 39, this magnificent recording of pianist Garrick Ohlsson with Christoph von Dohnanyi conducting the Cleveland Orchestra and Men's Chorus will come as a ...

Horizons - Leif Ove Andsnes

Isaac Albeniz, George Antheil, ...

EMI Classics, 2006

SHORT, SWEET AND LOVELY
According to the notes in this release the selections contained therein are a personal collection of piano encores selected and wonderfully played by pianist Leif Ove Andsnes. Indeed it is a rich and full recording (close to 70 minutes in length) of short (each ...

Horowitz Live and Unedited [includes Bonus DVD]

Johann Sebastian Bach, Ferruccio Busoni, ...

Sony, 2003

Insert Here Any Superlative You Can Think Of
For those of you who don't enjoy reading long drawn-out reviews: This is the best CD set I could possibly imagine buying before I bought it. After I bought it, I wept twice in the first listening of just the second disc. The Chopin recordings on this disc are simply ...

Busoni: Piano Concerto Op. 39

Ferruccio Busoni, Daniell Revenaugh, ...

EMI Classics, 2007

The most gargantuan work dedicated to the noblest of the instruments!
From the first bars of the most extensive and ambitious Piano concerto never written before, the well reminded pianist John Ogdon made (to my mind) his greatest musical achievement with this mercurial score ; on the other hand, the Royal Philharmonic conducted by ...

Busoni: Doktor Faust

Ferruccio Busoni, Thomas Hampson

ArtHaus Musik, 2008

An Astonishing Achievement
What an exhausting, numbing, emotional experience watching this DVD was. The production is not without problems, but Hampson's performance more than compensates for anything that might hinder one's enjoyment and appreciation for this reading. This may be the finest ...

Horowitz: The Last Romantic

Ferruccio Busoni, Frederic Chopin, ...

Deutsche Grammophon, 1985

Hear the origins of modern music -
This is a phenomenal CD. First, there is the sound, this recording is crystal clear, the piano is in your listening room with you. The difference between the sound of the new digital recordings and at least some of the older recordings is like day and night. Then there ...

Les Introuvables de Alexis Weissenberg

Johannes Brahms, Ferruccio Busoni, ...

Angel Records, 2004

Longing for Schumann
I saw Maestro Weissenberg in concert several times throughout the 70s in New York. Once he played the Rachmanninoff preludes. Another time an all-Schumann program. I once went to hear him with friends at Alice Tully Hall, a small room in the Metropolitan Museum of ...

Busoni - Doktor Faust

Ferruccio Busoni, Kent Nagano, ...

Elektra / Wea, 2000

At long last!
I made the unforgiveable mistake of lending my DGG 1969 CD box set of this work to someone in 1992 who due to a complicated set of circumstances could never give it back. Since then I have fretted over the loss of this magnificent work from my collection and today I ...

Grigory Ginzburg: His Early Recordings, Vol. 1 - Liszt, Beethoven, Balakirev & Ginzburg
Mily Balakirev, Ludwig van Beethoven, ...

APR, 2008

Busoni: Transcriptions For Piano After J. S. Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach, Ferruccio Busoni, ...

Tudor, 2007

Rare Piano Encores

Anton Bruckner, Ferruccio Busoni, ...

Hyperion UK, 2004

Wow!~ I love this CD!
There is something about from Richard Wagner's most wonderful "Albumblatt" to Franz Liszt, Anton Bruckner and the others, it's a really relaxing collection of slow piano pieces to unwind to with some brandy and chocolate.

Marc-André Hamelin Live at Wigmore Hall

Charles-Valentin Alkan, Ludwig van Beethoven, ...

Hyperion UK, 1995

Truly phenomenal
From track 1 on, it is clear that Hamelin is one of piano music's most meteoric talents ever to blaze the pianistic firmament. He dispatches Beethoven as if driven by the very fires of Hell. Surprising, as elements of wry humour are often a characteristic of this ...