John Ogdon - Ferruccio Busoni: Fantasia Contrappuntistica, Fantasia after J.S. Bach, Toccata (2020)
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Genre: Classical | Label: Altarus
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 252 MB | 01:00:04
Genre: Classical | Label: Altarus
John Ogdon was one of the great interpreters of Ferruccio Busoni's keyboard music in the first stage of its latter-day revival, and his EMI Angel recording of Busoni's Piano Concerto, Op. 39, can be said to have "made" that work as a viable, if impractical, concert staple. Between that triumph in 1967 and the recordings on Altarus' Busoni: Piano Works, made in 1988 – the last full year of Ogdon's short life – there were a host of detours and disappointments for the pianist. A nervous breakdown or two, long hospitalizations, longer absences from the concert stage, and a comeback received lukewarmly by critics were all hallmarks of a career that would have stopped lesser men cold.