The Boston Symphony Orchestra's 2017 performance of Ferruccio Busoni's monumental concerto met all the composer's impossible demands. A new live recording of the event is both serious and fabulous.

Elegies Ferruccio (Dante Michelangiolo Benvenuto) Busoni, Composer Marc-André Hamelin, Piano Nuit de noël Ferruccio (Dante Michelangiolo Benvenuto) Busoni, Composer Marc-André Hamelin, Piano Fantasia ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen and the pianist Igor Levit discuss Ferruccio Busoni’s Piano Concerto, a rarity they are performing in San Francisco.

There’s an invisible choir, text from a Danish play about Aladdin, and it’s inspired by classical architecture, nature and quasi-Egyptian iconography – no wonder Busoni’s Piano Concerto is rarely ...

San Francisco — Being called by some a failed city, San Francisco struggles to recover from the pandemic. The view from the street is all too often that of an appalling income divide in which the ...

This weekend, acclaimed American pianist Garrick Ohlsson joins the National Symphony Orchestra, with conductor Rossen Milanov making his NSO debut, at the Kennedy Center for three performances of ...

Though Ferruccio Busoni routinely gets a few pages in surveys of the music of the first half of the 20th century, he remains an elusive figure, hard to place convincingly in context. He was one of the ...

This is FRESH AIR. Can a piece of music be too big for its own good? That's a question our classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz has been asking himself. He doesn't particularly like grandiosity for ...