Instrumental, Organ Solos, Chorale Preludes, Busoni (composer)
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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. —
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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 Music, Vol. 10
Piano Transcriptions of Works by J.S. Bach, Brahms, Cramer, Liszt and Mozart
Wolf Harden (piano)
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Here is a cunning and potent mix of every conceivable form of pianistic and musical intricacy (it excludes the merely decorative, salon or ephemeral). Everything is of the most absorbing interest;... —
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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... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2019
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Both [originals and transcriptions] are played, tantalisingly, with a keen sense of place and time – the Bach affectionately and glowingly, but with a modern stylistic sensitivity, the Busoni... —
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Sunday Times, 10 Best Classical Albums of 2021
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Tzimon Barto's gothic inflation aims to recreate the spirit of Busoni's opulence rather than his austerity. —
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Wass says he has been playing much of this music for many years, and his experience shows. —
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