Liszt-Busoni: Grandes études de Paganini

Composers: Franz Liszt (1811-1886) Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924) Dates of composition: 1851 (original) 1913-1923 (Busoni’s transcriptions) Performers: Ivo Sandro Bartoli (1970-) (from his album “Liszt & Busoni: Studies and Transcriptions“) Josef Lhévinne (1874-1944) (from the album “The Very best of Josef Lhévinne“) Dates of recording: 2011 (Bartoli) 1925 (Lhévinne, on an Ampico 63903 piano roll) Busoni’s transcriptions of Liszt’s Grandes études de Paganini. The Liszt originals are marked “F.L.“ or “L“ and Busoni’s are marked “F.B.“ or “B.“ While some of Liszt’s writing was completely reworked, many passages were left untouched. 1. Preludio. Andante—Étude. Non troppo lento (G minor) (Bartoli) (0:00) 2. Andante (E-flat major) (Bartoli) (5:38) 3. La Campanella. Allegretto (G-sharp minor) (Lhévinne) (11:05) 4. Vivo (E major) (Barto