Piano International (Mar, 2014)
Hyperion does Busoni a great service in issuing this magnificent three-disc box. Those readers who know Busoni mainly (or only) via his transcriptions will have a whole new world revealed to them. Hamelin, one of today’s super-virtuosos but also a musician of the highest rank, seems to be the ideal interpreter, and is captured throughout in superb sound. His recording of the Busoni Piano Concerto for this label (City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/Mark Elder) is impressive enough (rivalling John Ogdon’s account). This set seems in a higher league still.
The works are presented chronologically, dating from 1907 through to 1923. Each disc works well as a programme in itself, yet there …
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