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Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook Ferruccio Busoni, who died 100 years ago, was a globe-trotting, forward-thinking composer and teacher with a message of timelessness ...
Arguably the greatest pianist of his time, the legacy of Ferruccio Busoni (1866–1924) is perpetuated through his popular piano transcriptions and futuristic musical thinking. Commemorating the ...
The Boston Symphony Orchestra's 2017 performance of Ferruccio Busoni's monumental concerto met all the composer's impossible demands. A new live recording of the event is both serious and fabulous.
Though Ferruccio Busoni routinely gets a few pages in surveys of the music of the first half of the 20th century, he remains an elusive figure, hard to place convincingly in context. He was one of the ...
We often hear about the transcriptions Ferrucio Busoni made of music by Bach. But Busoni occasionally turned his attention to music by composers other than Bach, composers like Georges Bizet. From a ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Imagine if Brahms had lost the plot in his later years and turned out a giant piano concerto that embraced ...
Being called by some a failed city, San Francisco struggles to recover from the pandemic. The view from the street is all too often that of an appalling income divide in which the Silicon rich who ...
This is FRESH AIR. Can a piece of music be too big for its own good? That's a question our classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz has been asking himself. He doesn't particularly like grandiosity for ...
San Francisco — Being called by some a failed city, San Francisco struggles to recover from the pandemic. The view from the street is all too often that of an appalling income divide in which the ...