Anyone coming to Busoni's music for violin and piano expecting either the big, brash, brilliant music of his middle years or the cool, lean, smart music of his later years will be sorely disappointed. The two sonatas and the four bagatelles are all early works, masterfully accomplished early works, true, but early works nonetheless: a little gawky, a lot passionate, and exceedingly ambitious. And, it should be added, stylistically just about completely uncharacteristic of the later composer. The First Sonata is a big-boned, ...
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Anyone coming to Busoni's music for violin and piano expecting either the big, brash, brilliant music of his middle years or the cool, lean, smart music of his later years will be sorely disappointed. The two sonatas and the four bagatelles are all early works, masterfully accomplished early works, true, but early works nonetheless: a little gawky, a lot passionate, and exceedingly ambitious. And, it should be added, stylistically just about completely uncharacteristic of the later composer. The First Sonata is a big-boned, hard-muscled work that sounds like an Italian Brahms, the Second Sonata is a wide-eyed, large-hearted work that sounds like an Italian Liszt, and the four bagatelles are tiny works that sound like Italian pastiches on a variety of national styles, Austrian in the Wiener Tanzweise, for example, and Russian in the Ride of the Cossacks. But none of them, well-wrought as they are, sing with Busoni's own mature voice, and even fans of the composer usually relegate these works to the...
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