Browse: Busoni (composer), Piano Sonatas
This page lists all recordings composed by Ferruccio Busoni (1866–1924).
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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…
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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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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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the performances...are all you could hope from a player of such quality, faced with repertoire he might have been born to interpret. This is playing of a very high order, such as...one seldom... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Finalist - Instrumental
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2014, Winner - Piano
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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…
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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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He might be termed the last of the great individualists among the pianist fraternity, an artist whose credo stems from his teacher, the great virtuoso Josef Hofmann. It is a school of personal... — More…
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Sensational. Unique. In a realm all their own. Now words are really apt here...The most obvious feature of the playing here is the artist's unfettered imagination - a currently unfashionable... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2014, Instrumental Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2014, Editor's Choice
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[The final work] is the standout performance on the disc, in which Bartlett shows his true pianistic colours with a vicious, visceral reading of the second of Prokofiev’s three ‘War Sonatas’…His... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2019
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Great Pianists - Busoni
Busoni and His Pupils
Ferruccio Busoni, Egon Petri, Michael von Zadora (pianos)
Petri's musical imagination in Sonatina No. 3 brings charm, warmth and intimacy to this little gem — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Historical
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