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Alfred Brendel plays Busoni & Liszt

Alfred Brendel

Label
Appian
Catalogue number
CDX 5172
EAN / barcode
047163517228
Release date
30 July 1996
Format
Digital
Type
Album
Genres: classical

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The most unknown Brendel Alfred Brendel certainly needs no introduction; as one of the most important pianists of the second half of the 20th century, his numerous recordings, first with Vox, then with Vanguard and finally, in the most important years of his artistic maturity, with Philips, are almost constantly to be found in the catalogue and have been reissued time and again. Yet there is a small part of his musical legacy that has remained virtually unknown to admirers of Brendel's interpretative art: four LPs that he recorded at the beginning of his career in the early 1950s for the short-lived American label SPA. None of these recordings have yet been released in their entirety in the digital age, but there is one recording among them that is certainly one of the most important in Brendel's discography: the monumental Fantasia Contrappuntistica BV256 by Feruccio Busoni (1866-1924) on the themes of the quadruple fugue from Bach's The Art of Fugue BWV 1080. It is now reissued on APR with the explicit blessing of the performer, together with his first solo LP, the complete recording of Franz Liszt's Christmas Tree S186 (1873-76), a suite of 12 piano pieces that has been neglected by performers, as has the Busoni arrangement of Bach's Ich ruf' zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ BWV 639. Busoni's Fantasia Contrappuntistica and Liszt's Christmas Tree were first recorded at the time and the pianist unfortunately never played them again in the recording studio, so we have here a truly important addition to his discography. Moreover, the booklet contains a contribution specially written for this edition by Brendel with some worthwhile thoughts on Busoni and his monumental composition.
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Tracklist

  1. 01 Piano Concerto no. 1 in E-flat major, S. 124: I. Allegro maestoso tempo giusto 05:44
  2. 02 Piano Concerto no. 1 in E-flat major, S. 124: II. Quasi adagio 04:42
  3. 03 Piano Concerto no. 1 in E-flat major, S. 124: III. Allegretto vivace 04:30
  4. 04 Piano Concerto no. 1 in E-flat major, S. 124: IV. Allegro marziale animato 04:24
  5. 05 Piano Concerto no. 2 in A major, S. 125: Adagio sostenuto assai 07:27
  6. 06 Piano Concerto no. 2 in A major, S. 125: Tempo del andante 05:44
  7. 07 Piano Concerto no. 2 in A major, S. 125: Allegro deciso 03:03
  8. 08 Piano Concerto no. 2 in A major, S. 125: Marziale un poco meno allegro 01:12
  9. 09 Piano Concerto no. 2 in A major, S. 125: Un poco meno mosso 02:34
  10. 10 Piano Concerto no. 2 in A major, S. 125: Allegro animato 01:49
  11. 11 Totentanz, S. 126: Andante - Allegro - Allegro moderato 02:09
  12. 12 Totentanz, S. 126: Variation I 01:00
  13. 13 Totentanz, S. 126: Variation II 00:49
  14. 14 Totentanz, S. 126: Variation III 00:30
  15. 15 Totentanz, S. 126: Variation IV 03:23
  16. 16 Totentanz, S. 126: Variation V 03:16
  17. 17 Totentanz, S. 126: Cadenza 01:23
  18. 18 Totentanz, S. 126: Variation VI 03:09
  19. 19 Totentanz, S. 126: Cadenza 00:51
  20. 20 Totentanz, S. 126: Allegro animato 00:42
  21. 21 Malediction, S. 121 14:33
  22. 22 Piano Sonata in B minor, S. 178: Lento 03:28
  23. 23 Piano Sonata in B minor, S. 178: Grandioso 08:10
  24. 24 Piano Sonata in B minor, S. 178: Andante sostenuto 06:52
  25. 25 Piano Sonata in B minor, S. 178: Fugue Allegro energico 05:42
  26. 26 Piano Sonata in B minor, S. 178: Stretta quasi presto 04:41
  27. 27 Années de pèlerinage, Italy, S. 161: No. 7. Après une lecture du Dante: Andante 01:47
  28. 28 Années de pèlerinage, Italy, S. 161: No. 7. Après une lecture du Dante: Presto agitato 02:48
  29. 29 Années de pèlerinage, Italy, S. 161: No. 7. Après une lecture du Dante: Tempo 1 03:07
  30. 30 Années de pèlerinage, Italy, S. 161: No. 7. Après une lecture du Dante: Più tosto 05:47
  31. 31 Années de pèlerinage, Italy, S. 161: No. 7. Après une lecture du Dante: Più mosso 02:35
  32. 32 Bagatelle sans tonalité, S. 216a 02:47
  33. 33 Csardas macabre, S. 224 07:01
  34. 34 La lugubre gondola, S. 200 06:58
  35. 35 Der Tanz in der Dorfschenke, S. 514 "Mephisto Waltz no. 1" 11:15

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