SASCHA LASSERSON (Violin)
LONIE BASCHE (Pianoforte)
A MAN of catholic but unexpected preferences, devoted to the music of Liszt, a worshipper of Beethoven and Bach (whose piano works he so finely edited and annotated), in tune with the later Verdi, admirer of Bizet, an intense lover of Mozart, a man to whom all works, even the little things, were either monumental and 'magnificent—to be conceived and interpreted magnificently-or they were nothing ; such was Ferruccio Busoni , the great pianist who aspired to be a greater composer, the son of an Italian father and a German mother, who combined the essential characteristics of both nations in his music, the composer of works of great nobility and a hampering intellectuality, the musician who had an open contempt for the academic, of which he was, however, complete master, and who sought to graft modern expression on to classic form and cause a neo-classicism to flower.