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Day 1: Tuesday 16th July 2024
09:00 - 09:40
Registration and arrival refreshments
09:40 - 10:00
Introductions and welcome
10:00 - 11:30
Paper session 1: Busoni’s transcriptions
Location: AG09
- Raymond Shon: 'Busoni and re-transcription'
- Dr Chiara Bertoglio: 'What Counts as Bach-Busoni?'
11:30 - 12:00
Tea and coffee break
12:00 - 13:00
Recital: Yipeng Xu, piano
Location: Performance Space
- Bach-Busoni: Chorale prelude on ‘Wachtet auf, ruft uns die Stimme’ BWV 645
- Glinka-Balakirev: The Lark
- Ferruccio Busoni: Elegy no.4, ‘Turandots Frauengemach’
- Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata in E major Op.109
- Franz Liszt: Paganini-Étude no.6
- Bach-Busoni: Chorale prelude on ‘In dir ist Freude’ BWV 615
13:00 - 14:30
Lunch break
14:30 - 16:00
Paper session 2: Compositional aesthetics - Part 1
Location: AG09
- Fred Scott: 'Busoni and the World Elsewhere: Doktor Faust as Neo-Renaissance Drama'
- Chuyu Zhang: 'Gebrauchsmusik: A Busonian Legacy?'
16:00 - 16:30
Tea and coffee break
16:30 - 18:00
Paper session 3: Compositional aesthetics - Part 2
Location: Performance Space
- Michael Jones: 'From Bach analysis to new modality: Busoni's New Aesthetic made audible'
- Prof Ian Pace: ‘Busoni the Classicist: Junge Klassizität and the aesthetic of the late piano music (1920-1924)’
Short break
18:00 - 19:30
Keynote 1: Prof Paul Fleet: 'How does Busoni’s music present itself being both with and after tonality?'
Location: Performance Space
Day 2: Wednesday 17th July 2024
09:00 - 09:30
Registration and arrival refreshments
09:30 - 10:15
Interview with Prof Larry Sitsky (chaired Fred Scott)
Location: AG08
10:15 - 11:45
Paper session 4: Busoni’s world
Location: AG09
- Geoff Thomason: 'Manchester’s gain, Manchester’s loss: Ferruccio Busoni and Adolph Brodsky'
- Dr Brian Andrew Inglis: 'Busoni and Sorabji: networked connections; profound responses'
11:45 - 12:15
Tea and coffee break
12:15 - 13:15
Lecture recital 1: Natalie Tsaldarakis and Panayotis Archontides: 'Fantasia Contrappuntistica (1922)'
Location: Performance Space
13:15 - 14:30
Lunch break
14:30 - 15:30
Lecture recital 2: Christopher White: 'Ronald Stevenson and Mahler'
Location: Performance Space
15:30 - 16:00
Tea and coffee break
Short break
16:15 - 17:45
Keynote 2: Prof Erinn Knyt: 'Encyclopedic Modernism in the Musical Worlds of Gustav Mahler and Ferruccio Busoni'
Location: AG08
17:45 - 18:30
Roundtable
Location: AG08 or AG09 TBC