In the fourth volume of his cycle of Busoni's piano music for Naxos, pianist Wolf Harden tackles some of the most important pieces in Busoni's solo repertoire; the Six Elegies, the Toccata: Preludio -- Fantasia -- Ciaccona, and the Fantasia nach J.S. Bach. Harden fills out the program with appropriate, contextually related choices; the Bach/Busoni Prelude and Fugue in D, BWV 532, originally for organ, and the seldom recorded piano solo version of the Berceuse Elegiaque, subtitled by Busoni as "Elegy No. 7." One would expect ...
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In the fourth volume of his cycle of Busoni's piano music for Naxos, pianist Wolf Harden tackles some of the most important pieces in Busoni's solo repertoire; the Six Elegies, the Toccata: Preludio -- Fantasia -- Ciaccona, and the Fantasia nach J.S. Bach. Harden fills out the program with appropriate, contextually related choices; the Bach/Busoni Prelude and Fugue in D, BWV 532, originally for organ, and the seldom recorded piano solo version of the Berceuse Elegiaque, subtitled by Busoni as "Elegy No. 7." One would expect in such emotionally wrought Busoni -- the Berceuse is a memorial to his mother, as is the Fantasia to his father -- that Harden would be firing on all cylinders here. In a technical sense, he is; the execution aspect of the whole disc is impressive apart from a transition or two that come off as abrupt. However, Harden takes the Elegies a shade faster than most, and the underlying dance rhythms -- usually muted owing to slower tempi -- become the detail that plays to the foreground....
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