BUSONI : Piano Music • 7 — Concert fantasy on motifs from Goldmark's 'Merlin · Chamber Fantasy on Bizet's 'Carmen' (Wolf Harden) (2013) FLAC (tracks), lossless

The essence of Ferruccio Busoni’s music lies in its synthesis of his Italian and German ancestry, emotion and intellect, imagination and rigour. This seventh volume in Naxos’s highly-praised series brings together several virtuosic operatic transcriptions, paraphrases and fantasies, as well as demanding studies and two piano sonatinas. ‘Wolf Harden is a stupendous pianist who can deliver what Busoni demands and then some’ (American Record Guide on Vol. 2, 8.555699). naxos

Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924)
1. Concert Fantasy On Motifs From The Opera "Merlin" By Goldmark    17:40
2. Fantasy On Motifs From The Comic Opera "Der Barbier Von Bagdad" By Peter Cornelius    9:38
3. Variation-Study After Mozart No. 1: Canzonetta From "Don Giovanni"    1:39
4. Funeral March From "Götterdämmerung" 8:07
Arranged By – Ferruccio Busoni
Composed By – Richard Wagner
5. Sonatina No. 3: 'Ad Usum Infantis Madeline M. Americanae    6:45
6. Sonatina No. 6: Chamber Fantasy On Bizet's "Carmen"    7:59
7-11. Five Short Pieces For The Cultivation Of Polyphonic Playing 16:24

Piano – Wolf Harden