Busoni / Harden - Piano Music - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Sonny Landreth's new album InchBlacktop RunInch mixes genres and styles across a landscape of lyricism and rootsy grooves. His 3rd album for blues connaisseur tag Provogue, and his 14th overall, will be released on February 21, 2020. A percussive burst of acoustic resonator guitar pushes the narrator on a journey Inchbetween the life I left and the edge of nextInch in the title cut of guitarist, songwriter and bandleader Sonny Landreth's 14th album. As the singer feels the wind at his back, a rising bass line intersects Landreth's vocalizing to stretch the fingerpicked tune into Far Eastern melodicism. The south Louisiana artist's groundbreaking work has long mixed familiarity with experimentation, and his latest ten-song collection stretches from hard-edged electric instrumentals to wistful acoustic ballads. The project's range is the fruit of a renewed collaboration. Producer RS Field - who helmed Landreth's trio of breakout albums - joined the six-stringer and co-producer Tony Daigle to finish the record.

Transcriptions occupied Ferruccio Busoni from early in his career, but his famously Romantic version of the Chaconne in D minor contrasts with the later and more austere Sonatina brevis based on Bach's Fantasy and Fugue in D minor, BWV 905. Music from Bach's The Art of Fugue is invoked in the rarely heard Edizione minore version of the Fantasia contrappuntistica, and the Ten Chorale Preludes include the glorious Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme. Sir Edward Elgar considered Busoni 'the greatest musical mind of his time,' and Wolf Harden's playing of Busoni has been described as 'the clear current benchmark' (BBC Music Magazine)

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