Musc Web International has published a review of Respighi: Works for piano and orchestra on Brilliant Classics. Read the review here:
http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2012/Jan12/respighibartoli_brilliant94055.htm
Musc Web International has published a review of Respighi: Works for piano and orchestra on Brilliant Classics. Read the review here:
http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2012/Jan12/respighibartoli_brilliant94055.htm
Music Web International has published a detailed review of Busoni’s Fantasia Contrappuntistica. Read the review here:
http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2012/Jan12/Busoni_fantasia_94223.htm
Busoni: Fantasia contrappuntistica; Seven Elegies, CD review
Sandro Ivo Bartoli (piano).
By Geoffrey Norris
1:15PM BST 15 Sep 2011
Brilliant Classics 94223, £8.99
Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924), to whose name the recently held international piano competition in Bolzano is dedicated, was a pianist and composer of formidable gifts, two facets of his talent that come together in the 35-minute Fantasia contrappuntistica. Sandro Ivo Bartoli describes it as “a work of mystical allure and visionary genius”, an assessment borne out by a performance that conquers the music’s supreme technical demands and conveys its epic architecture.
Read the original here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/classicalcdreviews/8765212/Busoni-Fantasia-contrappuntistica-Seven-Elegies-CD-review.html