This is FRESH AIR. Can a piece of music be too big for its own good? That's a question our classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz has been asking himself. He doesn't particularly like grandiosity for ...

Concert Fantasy on themes from Goldmark's 'Merlin' Wolf Harden, Piano Ferruccio (Dante Michelangiolo Benvenuto) Busoni, Composer Fantasia on themes from Cornelius's `The Barber of Ferruccio (Dante ...

Elegies Ferruccio (Dante Michelangiolo Benvenuto) Busoni, Composer Marc-André Hamelin, Piano Nuit de noël Ferruccio (Dante Michelangiolo Benvenuto) Busoni, Composer Marc-André Hamelin, Piano Fantasia ...

CLEVELAND -- If this is how the Cleveland Orchestra makes up for being gone two weeks, maybe it ought to travel more. Indeed, the concert it gave Thursday night at Severance Hall, its first in ...

Though Ferruccio Busoni routinely gets a few pages in surveys of the music of the first half of the 20th century, he remains an elusive figure, hard to place convincingly in context. He was one of the ...

The Boston Symphony Orchestra's 2017 performance of Ferruccio Busoni's monumental concerto met all the composer's impossible demands. A new live recording of the event is both serious and fabulous.