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Notes
Busoni never came closer to his dream of Italian music than with that night on May 11, 1917 of double performance in Zurich, which he calls himself "La Nuova Commedia dell' Arte" I ("Turandot") and II ("Arlecchino"). In the unusually short time from December 1916 to March 1917 Busoni reworked the already existing material to the Incidental Music of Gozzis "Turandot" into an opera. This happened 4 years before Puccini started to work on the same content. "Arleccino", though in immediate neighborhood to "Dr. Faust" looking almost like a secondary work, is perhaps the composer's actual key composition. The speaking hero of his "theatralische Capriccio" represents a role model, which is at times more important to him than his aesthetic Faust, especially as the World War was increasing in intensity.
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“… When composing, Busoni managed to combine the light Italian music with the German text. He wrote the text himself. The first merit of the recording is that it reveals compositional treasures. But it also convinces with fresh, lively orchestral colors that Gerd Albrecht got from the Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin. The group of singers is equally good. The voices are clearly put in the foreground by the recording technique. Of course, this makes it easier to understand the text and also makes it possible to hear every nuance…” ****
Uwe Krusch – Pizzicato.lu – 9 March 2020
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