Pietro Scarpini: Discovered Tapes – Busoni and Liszt

Contents CD1 Ferruccio Busoni [1]-[8] Piano Concerto in C major, Op.39, BV 247 (1904) SO und Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks | Rafael Kubelik recorded: live in studio | Herkulessaal BR, Munich | 24-25 November 1966

CD2 Ferruccio Busoni [1] Romanza e Scherzoso, piano and orchestra, Op.54, BV 290 (1921) OS di Torino della RAI | Claudio Abbado recorded: live | Auditorium RAI, Torino | 20 March 1964 | broadcast, stereo [2] Sonatina No.2, BV 259 (1912) “Sonatina Seconda” recorded: studio | NDR Hamburg | 29 April 1957 | original master [3] Sonatina No.3, BV 268 (1915) “Ad usum infantis Madeline M.* Americanae” [4] Sonatina No.4, BV 274 (1917) “In diem nativitatis Christi MCMXVII” recorded: live | Sala bianca, Palazzo Pitti, Firenze | 4 February 1959 | broadcast [5] Sonatina No.5, BV 280 (1918) “Brevis, in Signo Joannis Sebastiani Magni” [6] Sonatina No.6, BV 284 (1920) “Fantasia da Camera super Carmen” [7] Toccata: Preludio – Fantasia – Ciaccona, BV 287 (1921) recorded: studio | RAI Roma | c.1955 | broadcast

CD3 Ferruccio Busoni [1]-[3] Indian Fantasy / Indianische Fantasie, Op.44, BV 264 (1914) O national de l’O.R.T.F. | Piero Bellugi recorded: live | Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Paris | 10 January 1968 | original master, stereo [4]-[7] Indian Diary / Indianisches Tagebuch – Book I, BV 267 (1915) [8] Albumblatt No.3 BV 289/3 (1921) [9] Elegie No.6 “Erscheinung” BV 249/6 (1907) [10] Elegie No.5 “Die Nächtlichen” BV 249/5 (1907) [11] Elegie No.2 “All’Italia!” BV 249/2 (1907) recorded: studio | RAI Napoli | 22 April 1964 | broadcast Transcription by F. Busoni from 3 works attrib. to J.S. Bach, BV B 42 (1917): [12] – Fantasia in D minor, BWV 905 [13] – Andante in G minor, BWV 969 [14] – Scherzo in D minor, BWV 844 recorded: studio | RAI Napoli | 16 December 1964 | broadcast

CD4 Ferruccio Busoni [1] Fantasia contrappuntistica, for 2 pianos, BV 256b (4th version, 1921) recorded: Scarpini home studio | 31 July 1974 | original master [2] Improvisation on Bach’s Choral “Wie wohl ist mir”, for 2 pianos, BV 271 (1916) recorded: Scarpini home studio | c.1974 | original master * [3] Toccata: Preludio – Fantasia – Ciaccona, BV 287 (1921) recorded: Scarpini home studio | c.1974 | original master [4] Albumblatt No.2 (Andante), BV 289/2 (1921) recorded: Scarpini home studio | c.1975 | original master, stereo (private tapes from undated recording sessions in Roma, Firenze and St.Moritz) * Piano I & Piano II parts, overdubbing by Scarpini himself

CD5 Franz Liszt [1] Malédiction for piano and strings (in E minor), S.121 (1833) OS di Torino della RAI | Claudio Abbado recorded: live | Auditorium RAI, Torino | 20 March 1964 | broadcast, stereo [2] Consolation No.1 (Andante con moto) in E major, S.172/1 (1849/50) [3] Sancta Dorothea, in E major, S.187 (1877) [4]-[7] Klavierstücke (5), S.192 (1865/76): Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 [8] Trübe Wolken – Nuages gris, S.199 (1881) [9] Die Trauergondel – La lugubre gondola II, S.200/2 (1885) [10] En rêve – Nocturne, S.207 (1885) [11]-[13] Ungarische Volkslieder (5), S.245 (1873): Nos. 1, 2, 4 recorded: studio | RAI Roma | 20 May 1960 | original master Concert transcription by Busoni from Liszt’s “Grandes études de Paganini”, S.141: [14] Etude No.2 in E-flat major, “Andantino capriccioso”, BV B 70 (1916) recorded: studio | Roma | c.1938 | ℗1938 private 78rpm disc | restoring: 2018

CD6 Franz Liszt [1] Harmonies poétiques et religieuses III, S.173: No.5 ‘Pater Noster’ (1847) [2] Ave Maria ‘Die Glocken von Rom’, in E major, S.182 (1862) [3]-[6] Weihnachtsbaum S.186 (1874/76): Nos. 1, 3, 4, 9 [7] In festo transfigurationis Domini nostri Jesu Christi, S.188 (1880) [8] Zweite Elegie – Elegy No.2 , S.197 (1877) [9] Die Trauergondel – La lugubre gondola I, S.200/1 (1882/83) [10] R.W. – Venezia, S.201 (1883) [11] Schlaflos! Frage und Antwort, S.203 (1883) [12] Recueillement – Vincenzo Bellini in memoriam, S.204 (1877) [13] Unstern! – Sinistre (Disastro), S.208 (1881) [14] Album Leaf – Prelude funèbre recorded: Scarpini home studio | c.1975/76 | original masters 1-2, 7-14: mono | 3-6: stereo (private tapes from undated recording sessions in Roma, Firenze and St.Moritz)

16 pages detailed booklet enclosed Rhine Classics has carefully restored and remastered these precious audio documents in 24bit 96KHz sound.