The release of EMI Angel's Ferruccio Busoni: The Two Piano Programme in late 2007 heralds the return of a recording artist from which nothing has been heard in a very long time: Daniell Revenaugh. Earlier in 2007, EMI finally consented to re-release on CD one of the most desperately sought recordings from its back-catalog, John Ogdon's 1967 recording of the Busoni Piano Concerto that Revenaugh conducted. Perhaps the warm reception of this long-delayed treasure helped convince EMI to issue this recording featuring Revenaugh ...
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The release of EMI Angel's Ferruccio Busoni: The Two Piano Programme in late 2007 heralds the return of a recording artist from which nothing has been heard in a very long time: Daniell Revenaugh. Earlier in 2007, EMI finally consented to re-release on CD one of the most desperately sought recordings from its back-catalog, John Ogdon's 1967 recording of the Busoni Piano Concerto that Revenaugh conducted. Perhaps the warm reception of this long-delayed treasure helped convince EMI to issue this recording featuring Revenaugh and Lawrence Leighton Smith as pianists in Busoni's duo piano output; it was made at Yale University in 1995, but has not previously appeared. This project was a long held dream of Revenaugh's that he'd originally planned to undertake with Ogdon about a decade after the 1967 concerto was recorded. With the project still pending at Ogdon's early death in 1988, Revenaugh went through a string of pianists in an attempt to pick up the thread, but nothing seemed to work out until he met,...
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Add this copy of Busoni: the Complete Two Piano Programme (World to cart. $12.98, like new condition, Sold by Streetlight_Records rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Santa Cruz, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2007 by EMI Classics.