IDAGIO | Piano Music - Busoni, F. / Siloti, A. / Medtner, N. / Glinka, M.I. (Rarities of Piano Music at Schloss Vor Husum, 1991 Festival) 5709499389003

Featuring

Hamish Milne
Alexei Lubimov
Boris Bloch
Kolja Lessing
Donna Amato
Sontraud Speidel

Ferruccio Busoni
Alexander Siloti
Nikolai Medtner
Mikhail Glinka
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Issay Dobrowen
Ignace Strasfogel
Cyril Scott
Eduard Erdmann

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Composer Biography

Michail Glinka, often called the "Father of Russian music," composed his "Barcarolle" in 1847 in Smolensk.

Composition History

Cyril Scott's "Lotus Land" was published in 1905, predating Debussy's "Pour l'Egyptienne" by ten years, despite some critical claims of influence.

Composition History

Ferruccio Busoni, an indefatigable promoter of Liszt's music, created the piano transcription of Liszt's "Fantasia and Fugue on the Chorale 'Ad nos, ad salutarem undam'" in 1897, almost 50 years after the original organ work was published.

Composer Biography

Issai Dobrowen, a pianist and conductor, studied with Konstantin Igumnow and Leopold Godowsky before dedicating himself to conducting in cities like Berlin, Dresden, and San Francisco.

Composer Biography

Alexander Siloti, a pupil of Liszt and an elder cousin of Sergei Rachmaninoff, was known more as a clever transcriber of piano works than as a composer.

Album & Artwork

This album is a collection of live recordings from the 5th "Rarities of Piano Music" festival, held from August 17th to 25th, 1991, at the Schloss vor Husum.