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Marc-Andre Hamelin - Busoni: Late Piano Music (2013)

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Marc-Andre Hamelin - Busoni: Late Piano Music (2013)

Marc-Andre Hamelin - Busoni: Late Piano Music (2013)
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Genre: Classical | Label: Hyperion | Catalog Number: 67951

‘Hamelin mastered its rising and falling cascades of scales, biting rhythms and thunderous textures as though he was Busoni himself’ (The Birmingham News, USA). Marc-André Hamelin is indisputably the king of Busoni pianists. He triumphantly masters the extraordinary technical difficulties and contrapuntal complexities this composer presents. This generously priced triple album offers most of Busoni’s mature works and the widest selection of pieces from the Klavierübung so far recorded, many of them for the first time.

Composer: Ferruccio Busoni
Performer: Marc-André Hamelin

Reviews: Ninety years have passed since Ferruccio Busoni’s death in 1924, and his original piano works remain box-office poison, although they’ve proliferated on disc. Recent recordings include several all-Busoni discs by Roland Pontinen on CPO along with Wolf Harden’s ongoing complete Busoni cycle for Naxos. Now we have Marc-André Hamelin’s three-disc survey devoted to the composer’s late pieces. It easily claims reference status, not just because of Hamelin’s celebrated technical proficiency, but also for his scrupulous, enlightening musical details.

Comparative observations illuminate my point. For example, the composer Thomas Adès made a lovely, sensitive recording of the Sonatina Ad Usum Infantis for EMI, and he plays the concluding Polonaise movement with lilting delicacy. However, Hamelin’s slightly faster tempo, more distinct articulation of slurs and staccatos, and observation of rests for their correct durations better convey the Polonaise’s rhythmic essence.

Busoni’s tendency to inflate miniatures by other composers with serious-minded and unnecessary padding begat the Giga, Boléro e Variazione from An Die Jugend, which basically refuses to leave Mozart’s ingeniously cross-rhythmic and succinct Eine kleine Gigue alone. Hamelin’s crisp and headlong performance makes the music’s most compelling recorded case; compare, for instance, Hamelin’s swagger and inhumanly even trills in the Boléro alongside Harden’s slower, heavier version and you’ll hear why. Hamelin’s quietly deft manipulation of light and shade liberates the seven Elegies from a long tradition of dour, mushy performances and brings welcome vibrancy to the Indian Diary’s four movements, from the opening Allegretto’s controlled rubato to the hair-trigger definition of the finale’s rapid arpeggiated chords.

Much as I admire Pontinen’s rock-solid suavity in the Perpetuum mobile, Hamelin’s brisker tempo and more pointed accents win the day. His pliable treatments of the Seven Polyphonic Pieces differ from Paul Jacobs’ more reserved classicism. If anything, the (relatively) familiar Sixth Sonatina based on themes from Bizet’s Carmen receives a suppler, more spontaneous reading than in Hamelin’s excellent yet comparatively square June, 1994 Wigmore Hall Hyperion recording. The opening section’s canonic writing is perfectly contoured between the hands, while the textural interweaving in the Flower Song and in the gorgeous descending chromatic harmonization of the Fate Motive emerges as if several pianos and at least two players were involved. In other words, finally here’s a modern Carmen Fantasy recording worthy of mention alongside the first three commercial 78 rpm editions by Claudio Arrau, Michael von Zadora, and Egon Petri. In short, this is a valuable addition to the Busoni discography and to Hamelin’s ever expanding, standard-setting Hyperion legacy.

Tracklisting:

Disc: 1
1. Elegies
2. Nuit de Noël BV251
3. Fantasia after J S Bach BV253
4. Canonic Variations and Fugue BVB40
5. Giga, bolero e variazione Book 3 of An die Jugend BV254

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Disc: 2
1. Sonatina BV257
2. Sonatina seconda BV259
3. Sonatina
4. Sonatina in diem nativitatis Christi MCMXVII BV274
5. Sonatina brevis in signo Joannis Sebastiani Magni BV280
6. Kammer-Fantasie über Carmen BV284
7. Indianisches Erntelied
8. Indianisches Tagebuch I BV267
9. Three Albumleaves BV289

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Disc: 3
1. Toccata Preludio, Fantasia, Ciaccona BV287
2. Prologo BV279
3. Preludio Allegro festivo
4. Preludio without the third finger, Moderato alla breve
5. Veloce e leggiero
6. Vivace moderato, con precisione
7. Variations-Studie nach Mozart I
8. Motive Allegro risoluto
9. Allegro
10. Nine Variations on a Chopin Prelude BV213a
11. Seven Short Pieces for the Cultivation of Polyphonic Playing BV296
12. Perpetuum mobile BV293
13. Prélude et étude en arpèges BV297

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