Busoni, Ferruccio : Élégies, Sonatina IV, Toccata

Description

This Busoni itinerary brings together three poles of his late piano writing: the Élégies - Seven New Pieces for Piano, BV 249, the Sonatina IV - For the Day of the Nativity of Christ 1917, BV 274, and the Toccata, BV 287. In the horizon of the Abbozzo di una nuova estetica della musica, a Young Classicism takes shape, capable of bringing together tradition and reinserting it into a renewed lexicon. The Élégies function as a true workshop of memory: theatrical, chorale, and symphonic materials are refracted in a cycle that is both open and circular, where major and minor become psychological nuances of the same substance. The Sonatina belongs to Zurich, of exile and war, almost a domestic breviary. The Toccata closes this arc with a gesture that is both historical and resolutely modern, like a manifesto.