Busoni: Piano Music Volume 8

Ferruccio Busoni’s Preludes, Op. 37 and Macchiette medioevali, Op. 33 were a product of his teenage years (1881- 83), but they are far from being derivative juvenilia. In these charming and engaging works Busoni moves away from the Baroque and Classical models of his earlier works towards a more inventive and personal accommodation with the Romanticism of the mid-nineteenth century. Wolf Harden’s playing in this series has been described as “the clear current benchmark” (BBC Music Magazine on Volume 2 / 8555699).