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Busoni: Violin Sonatas / Turban, Scheps
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Busoni: Violin Sonatas / Turban, Scheps

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Composer
BUSONI, FERRUCCIO
Artist
Turban, Scheps
Format
CD
Label
CPO
Released
Aug 07, 2020
Catalog #
555213-2
UPC
761203521326

About

“For a long time no child prodigy has appealed to us so sympathetically as the little Ferruccio Busoni. Precisely because he has so little of the child prodigy about him, but instead a lot of the good musician, both as a pianist and as a budding composer.” This is what Eduard Hanslick, the famous Vienna music critic, had to say in 1876 about the ten-year-old Ferruccio Busoni. Around this time Busoni had already composed many works – mostly for clarinet with other instruments, and all these works were very much born of the spirit of his father, who played the clarinet. In his time Ferdinando Busoni was a famous virtuoso and created a sensation as a traveling artist with opera fantasies and virtuoso showpieces.

Of his son’s two Violin Sonatas composed in 1889 and 1898, the op. 36a second sonata is to be regarded as an absolute key work. According to Busoni’s own testimony, it first delineated his unique character as a composer. The entire work is based on a Bach chorale, and it culminates in a magnificent variation movement on the same. However, his enormous public appeal and the admiration for his transcription technique made Busoni skeptical, and he thought that he had strayed onto conventional paths – which was not the case. The op. 29 first sonata is very much more conventional. Within its limits, very much in keeping with its composer’s life and times, the work today speaks unusually clearly to us, as an homage to Brahms, who supported Busoni, or as a link to the great pianist of those times, Anton Rubinstein, who himself published three violin sonatas.

Tracklist 14 tracks

  1. 1 I. Allegro deciso 08:47
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Allegro deciso
    Duration
    08:47
    Composer
    Ferruccio Busoni
    Performer
    Ingolf Turban, Ilya Scheps
  2. 2 II. Molto sostenuto 08:20
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Molto sostenuto
    Duration
    08:20
    Composer
    Ferruccio Busoni
    Performer
    Ingolf Turban, Ilya Scheps
  3. 3 III. Allegro molto e deciso 09:20
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Allegro molto e deciso
    Duration
    09:20
    Composer
    Ferruccio Busoni
    Performer
    Ingolf Turban, Ilya Scheps
  4. 4 I. Langsam - 10:04
    Track
    4
    Title
    I. Langsam -
    Duration
    10:04
    Composer
    Ferruccio Busoni
    Performer
    Ingolf Turban, Ilya Scheps
  5. 5 II. Presto - 02:44
    Track
    5
    Title
    II. Presto -
    Duration
    02:44
    Composer
    Ferruccio Busoni
    Performer
    Ingolf Turban, Ilya Scheps
  6. 6 III. Andante, piùttosto grave - 03:33
    Track
    6
    Title
    III. Andante, piùttosto grave -
    Duration
    03:33
    Composer
    Ferruccio Busoni
    Performer
    Ingolf Turban, Ilya Scheps
  7. 7 III. (Andante con moto) - 01:49
    Track
    7
    Title
    III. (Andante con moto) -
    Duration
    01:49
    Composer
    Ferruccio Busoni
    Performer
    Ingolf Turban, Ilya Scheps
  8. 8 III. Poco più andante - 02:19
    Track
    8
    Title
    III. Poco più andante -
    Duration
    02:19
    Composer
    Ferruccio Busoni
    Performer
    Ingolf Turban, Ilya Scheps
  9. 9 III. Alla marcia, vivace - 01:05
    Track
    9
    Title
    III. Alla marcia, vivace -
    Duration
    01:05
    Composer
    Ferruccio Busoni
    Performer
    Ingolf Turban, Ilya Scheps
  10. 10 III. Lo stesso movimento - 00:54
    Track
    10
    Title
    III. Lo stesso movimento -
    Duration
    00:54
    Composer
    Ferruccio Busoni
    Performer
    Ingolf Turban, Ilya Scheps
  11. 11 III. Andante - 04:19
    Track
    11
    Title
    III. Andante -
    Duration
    04:19
    Composer
    Ferruccio Busoni
    Performer
    Ingolf Turban, Ilya Scheps
  12. 12 III. Tranquillo assai - 03:26
    Track
    12
    Title
    III. Tranquillo assai -
    Duration
    03:26
    Composer
    Ferruccio Busoni
    Performer
    Ingolf Turban, Ilya Scheps
  13. 13 III. Allegro deciso, un poco maestoso - 02:26
    Track
    13
    Title
    III. Allegro deciso, un poco maestoso -
    Duration
    02:26
    Composer
    Ferruccio Busoni
    Performer
    Ingolf Turban, Ilya Scheps
  14. 14 III. Più tranquillo, apoteotico 01:49
    Track
    14
    Title
    III. Più tranquillo, apoteotico
    Duration
    01:49
    Composer
    Ferruccio Busoni
    Performer
    Ingolf Turban, Ilya Scheps