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Busoni Latepiano Music Elegies · Sonatinas · Toccata · Klavierübung (Excerpts) Indianisches Tagebuch · Fantasia After J S Bach MARC-ANDRÉ HAMELIN BUSONI LATEPIANO MUSIC ELEGIES · SONATINAS · TOCCATA · KLAVIERÜBUNG (EXCERPTS) INDIANISCHES TAGEBUCH · FANTASIA AFTER J S BACH FERRUCCIO BUSONI (1866–1924) LATE PIANO MUSIC COMPACT DISC 1 [62'49] Elegies BV249 (1907–9) ................................................ [34'03] 1 No 1 Nach der Wendung (Recueillement) ....................................... [4'15] 2 No 2 All’Italia! (In modo napolitano) .......................................... [6'20] 3 No 3 Meine Seele bangt und hofft zu dir (Choralvorspiel) ............................ [7'35] 4 No 4 Turandots Frauengemach (Intermezzo) ..................................... [3'22] 5 No 5 Die Nächtlichen (Walzer) ............................................... [3'05] 6 No 6 Erscheinung (Notturno) ............................................... [5'02] 7 No 7 Berceuse .......................................................... [4'25] 8 Nuit de Noël BV251 (1908) .............................................. [3'52] 9 Fantasia after J S Bach BV253 (1909) ..................................... [13'37] bl Canonic Variations and Fugue .......................................... [7'22] (on the Theme by King Frederick the Great), from J S Bach’s ‘Musical Offering’ BV B40 (1916) bm Giga, bolero e variazione Book 3 of An die Jugend, BV254 (1909) .................. [3'54] 2 COMPACT DISC 2 [70'21] 1 Sonatina BV257 (1910) ................................................. [11'21] 2 Sonatina seconda BV259 (1912) .......................................... [8'15] Sonatina ‘ad usum infantis Madeline M* Americanae’ Sonatina No 3, BV268 (1915) [7'05] 3 Molto tranquillo ......................................................... [1'31] 4 Andantino melancolico .................................................... [1'33] 5 Vivace (alla marcia) ...................................................... [0'59] 6 Molto tranquillo ......................................................... [0'53] 7 Polonaise (un poco cerimonioso) ............................................. [2'10] 8 Sonatina ‘in diem nativitatis Christi MCMXVII’ Sonatina No 4, BV274 (1917) ...... [7'55] 9 Sonatina brevis ‘in signo Joannis Sebastiani Magni’ Sonatina No 5, BV280 (1918) ... [5'45] bl Kammer-Fantasie über Carmen Sonatina No 6, BV284 (1920) ................... [7'43] bm Indianisches Erntelied (1911) .......................................... [2'27] Indianisches Tagebuch Book 1, BV267 (1915) ............................... [10'20] bn Allegretto affettuoso, un poco agitato ........................................... [2'29] bo Vivace ................................................................ [1'29] bp Andante ............................................................... [3'49] bq Maestoso ma andando ..................................................... [2'34] Three Albumleaves BV289 (1917, 1921, 1921) ................................ [9'28] br Andantino sostenuto ...................................................... [2'31] bs Andante ............................................................... [2'00] bt Sostenuto religioso (in the style of a chorale prelude) ............................... [4'57] 3 b 22/11/2013 15:19 Page 5 COMPACT DISC 3 [62'44] 1 Toccata: Preludio, Fantasia, Ciaccona BV287 (1920) ......................... [10'00] 2 Prologo BV279 (1918) ................................................... [0'51] from Klavierübung (second edition, 1925) 3 Preludio: Allegro festivo from Book 2 ‘On scale-derived forms’ ........................ [0'42] 4 Preludio (without the third finger): Moderato alla breve from Book 5 ‘Trills’ ............... [1'00] 5 Veloce e leggiero from Book 5 ‘Trills’ .......................................... [1'33] 6 Vivace moderato, con precisione from Book 6 ‘Staccato’ ............................ [2'51] 7 Variations-Studie nach Mozart, 1 [Serenade from Don Giovanni] from Book 6 ‘Staccato’ ..... [1'30] 8 Motive: Allegro risoluto from Book 6 ‘Staccato’ ................................... [1'34] 9 Allegro from Book 6 ‘Staccato’ .............................................. [2'17] bl Nine Variations on a Chopin Prelude (in C minor, Op 28 No 20) .............. [10'03] BV213a (1922; Klavierübung, second edition, 1925, Book 8) Seven Short Pieces for the Cultivation of Polyphonic Playing ............... [19'49] BV296 (1923; Klavierübung, second edition, 1925, Book 9) bm Preludietto: Allegro ....................................................... [0'33] bn Sostenuto—Poco più andante ............................................... [2'43] bo Andante molto tranquillo e legato ............................................. [1'35] bp Allegro ................................................................ [2'09] bq Preludio: Andante tranquillo ................................................ [3'35] br Nach Mozart: Adagio ...................................................... [5'36] bs With the use of the third pedal (Steinway & Sons Sustaining-Pedal): Andantino tranquillo ...... [3'38] bt Perpetuum mobile BV293 (1922; Klavierübung, second edition, 1925, Book 9) ......... [3'21] Prélude et étude en arpèges BV297 (1923) ................................ [7'13] bu Prélude: Arioso-volante ma tranquillo .......................................... [3'30] cl Étude: Allegro ........................................................... [3'43] MARC-ANDRÉ HAMELIN piano 4 FERRUCCIO BUSONI, c1906 5 CONTENTS ENGLISH page 7 FRANÇAIS page 16 DEUTSCH Seite 25 6 ORN IN EMPOLI, near Florence, Ferruccio Busoni composer (which was what really mattered for him) until (1866–1924) was the only child of the clarinettist at least the centenary of his birth in 1966, if not the 1980s, BFerdinando Busoni and the pianist Anna Weiss. A because his name, for many, was associated solely with his prodigy whose precocious career fortunately went beyond Bach arrangements. Yet his output also comprises several abrief flash, he gave his first recital and wrote his first works for chamber ensembles and for orchestra (including composition at the age of seven, and published his first concertos), as well as songs and operas. His massive Piano work when ten. He completed his private studies in Concerto of 1904 (recorded by Marc-André Hamelin on composition (in Graz) while still a fifteen-year-old teenager Hyperion CDA67143), whose fifth and final movement and, two years later, he began contributing reviews and calls for a male chorus, with which he stylistically bid articles to a Trieste newspaper. He later became aware that farewell to the past, and the Fantasia contrappuntistica, he had written too much music and published several acompletion of the final fugue from Bach’s Art of Fugue works prematurely. Jürgen Kindermann’s thematic cata - within a large-scale original structure, written in 1910, logue has 303 numbers for the original works and 115 have become much better known and admired over the for the cadenzas, arrangements and editions. Busoni last thirty years or so. This is also true of his four operas, considered that his Sonata in E minor for violin and piano, especially Doktor Faust (1916–23), the final masterpiece completed in late 1898, was his actual ‘opus 1’. that sums up his mature years as a composer. Although his Busoni’s career as a highly respected piano teacher music was for many years more or less ignored, Busoni’s started in 1888 with one- or two-year appointments in piano works, even those written during his teenage years, Helsinki, Moscow and Boston. After a short period of are now recorded with increasing frequency. The present activity as a freelance pianist based in New York, he settled selection offers most of the mature works and the widest in 1894 in Berlin, whence he managed his career as one selection of pieces from the Klavierübung so far recorded, of the most esteemed pianists of his time. In addition to most of them for the first time. Bach, Beethoven, Chopin and Mozart, he championed Liszt The Elegies, the earliest work in this set, are a group of and Alkan. Several of his private pupils, including Rudolph six pieces written in late 1907 (a seventh one was added Ganz, Mark Hambourg, Eduard Steuermann, Theodor in 1909). They are each dedicated to one of Busoni’s Szántó and Gino Tagliapietra, made a successful career. piano pupils, of whom three (Gottfried Galston, Egon Petri, Returning to Berlin in 1920, after almost five years of self- Michael Zadora) would remain among the most devoted imposed exile in Zurich, he taught composition to a small members of his entourage in the last years of his life. group of advanced students among whom was Kurt Weill. Appropriately enough for pieces that herald his entry into a Ahighly cultivated person and a passionate collector of new era of tonal organization, the first one is entitled Nach first editions, he kept an open house for musicians and der Wendung (Recueillement). Shortly after reaching this intellectuals of various disciplines who sought his advice ‘turning point’ in his compositional career, and having and enjoyed his brilliant conversation. paused to meditate, Busoni wrote that he had finally found Like Liszt, Busoni devoted a large part of his production his real self. Yet the Elegies look as much to the past as to to the piano and became an acknowledged master of the future, and as such reflect the ambiguity that is part of the transcription. This played against his reputation as a his personality as a composer. 7 The second piece, All’Italia! (In modo napolitano), register above a rocking pedal movement; it continues with which uses material from the second and
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