CD, Busoni (composer)
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the intensity doesn’t let up, but neither does the quality of the playing...Indebted to Bach and to Liszt, the Fantasia Contrappuntistica can be an impenetrable work. Levit’s approach is lucid... — More…
Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th September 2023
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - Solo Instrumental Recording of the Year
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The sequence works well as a recital-like experience, and also as a vehicle for Hough’s comprehensive mastery of his art...The idiom of his own ‘Vida breve’ Sonata, with its cogent sweep and... — More…
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2021, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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It tells us things about Brendel’s artistry that scarcely any other recording does. More importantly, it tells us things about Busoni that I seriously doubt can be accessed from any other source. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2024, Archive Issue of the Month
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
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Busoni: Piano Concerto
RecommendedRecorded live at Symphony Hall, Boston, MA, March 10-11, 2017
Kirill Gerstein (piano)
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Men of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, Sakari Oramo
Gerstein and Oramo are impressive in their focus throughout the work’s opening movement, and the whirl forwards towards its close has a tremendous power to it…As [the slow movement] progresses,... — More…
Awards:
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Gramophone Awards, 2019, Finalist - Concerto
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2019, Nominated - Orchestral
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2020, Finalist - Concerto
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International Classical Music Awards, 2020, Winner - Concerto
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The way Levit has formed this programme is extraordinarily effective. The Brahms reworking for left hand of Bach’s D minor violin Chaconne is a probing, introverted affair, and how effectively... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2018
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th October 2018
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2019, Winner - Instrumentalist of the Year (piano)
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Gramophone Awards, 2019, Finalist - Instrumental
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2019, Nominated - Instrumental
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The Sibelius Edition Volume 13 - Miscellaneous Works
RecommendedFolke Gräsbeck (piano), Andrew Barnett (glockenspiel), Harri Viitanen (1967 Marcussen organ of Helsinki Cathedral) Jorma Hynninen (baritone), Hannu Jurmu (tenor) & Johan Simberg (recitation)
Finnish Radio Orchestra, Tempera Quartet, Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Dominante Choir & YL Male...
The final instalment in the Swedish label BIS’s Sibelius survey mops up the odds and ends. There’s an incredible range of material strewn across the four discs in this set. Much of it is superb,... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th August 2011
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A charm of lullabies, or an excess? If anyone could convince you that mostly slow and soft can work as an album sequence, it would be sonic magician Bertrand Chamayou...Within the narrow compass... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2020, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th October 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Busoni: Toccata, BV 287, Elegien, BV 252, Sonatina No. 6, BV 284 & Toccata, Adagio & Fugue in C Major, BV B 29 No. 1
RecommendedPeter Donohoe (piano)
if some of the works here make uncomfortable listening – despite Donohoe’s keyboard brilliance – that is because Busoni himself disdained aural comfort...But the Toccata BV 29, being a transcription... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 6th August 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Instrumental
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New. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau: A Centenary Tribute
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Gerald Moore, Irwin Gage, Karl Engel, Jon Tolansky, Zoltán Kodály
London Symphony Orchestra
Somm’s two-disc ‘Centenary Tribute’ includes in addition to exhaustive annotations and translated texts a number of live rarities...Somm’s birthday enterprise will add considerably to your pleasure. — More…
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Busoni: Fantasia contrappuntistica, Chopin Variations, Sonatina prima & seconda
Peter Donohoe (piano), Karl Lutchmayer (piano)
This is the second release in Peter Donohoe’s ongoing exploration of Busoni’s solo piano works. And he is to be congratulated on his tenacity in bringing out both the intermittent splendours... — More…
