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| Busoni |
Friday, 18 September
AIR FM 105.4 Mhz.
2.30 p.m. - 3 p.m.
Siesta Time
Featured Composer: Ferruccio BUSONI
Tanzwalzer, Opus 53
Introduction and four waltzes (1920)
Duration: 12 minutes
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Finnish Folk Songs, Opus 27
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnsOZyozrco
Chloe Mun
Nuova Orchestra da Camera Ferruccio Busoni
Conductor, Massimo Belli
2017
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Busoni (1866-1924) was an Italian composer. He believed that music is absolute. It should be able to distill the essence of the music of the past and transform it into something new. He reinterpreted Bach, Liszt, Paganani, and Bizet. Yet he was a modernist who collaborated with Schoenberg. His output was prolific. He is remembered for his works for piano, notably piano concerto, Opus 39 (1904) which is all of 70 minutes. Busoni was eclectic in his musical oeuvre composing for native North American rhythms as well as for Finnish tunes (as above).
Tanzwalzer was dedicated to Strauss Jr. It was one of his final works. It was inspired, as he put it, 'by the sound of a waltz wafting from the interior of a coffee house.' It feels more rooted in the nineteenth rather than the twentieth century.
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Sleeve notes by RJ Dr. Brian Mendonca; photo courtesy interlude.hk
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