Release Date: 04 October 2024
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5024709156559
Genres: Classical Solo Instrumental
Composer/Series: Alfred Brendel plays Busoni & Liszt (The SPA recordings)
Description
Alfred Brendel's least known recordings are the four LPs he made for the US label SPA Records in the early 1950s. Until now, none has been given a full commercial release in the digital era but amongst them is a recording which is surely one of the most important in Brendel's discography - that of Busoni's 'Fantasia Contrappuntistica'. We are delighted to reissue it here with Mr Brendel's blessing, along with his first solo LP, the complete recording of Liszt's 'Weihnachtsbaum'. Both these works were recording premieres at the time and the pianist was not to return to them again in the studio, so this marks an important addition to his available discography. The booklet contains a note by the pianist himself, written specially for this release, with his reflections on Busoni and the Fantasia Contrappunctistica.
Mischa Levitzki; London Symphony Orchestra; Landon Ronald
Marguerite Long
Gieseking
Una Bourne
Zadora
William Murdoch
Wilhelm Backhaus
Walter Rehberg
Alfred Brendel
Alfred Brendel
Alfred Brendel
Alfred Brendel
Alfred Brendel
Alfred Brendel
Alfred Brendel
Alfred Brendel
