Discography of Busoni's piano concerto op. 39

The list is cronological with respect to date of recording. I welcome any additions or corrections.

Many thanks to Frazer Jarvis for suggesting additions and corrections to an earlier version of this discography

Year	Date	Pianist	Cover	Label	Reference	Comments
2017	10-11 March	Kirill Gerstein Boston Symphony Orchestra Men of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus Sakari Okamo, conductor		Myrios	MYR024	Live recording, Boston
2009	20 March	Karl-Andreas Kolly Musikkollegium Winterthur Herren des Konzertchors der ZHdK Marc Kissóczy, conductor		ZHdK Records	21/10	Live recording, Winterthur
2009	8-9 March	Roberto Cappello Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma Corale Luca Marenzio Francesco La Vecchia, conductor		Naxos	8.572523
2008	17 January	Pietro Massa Neubrandenburger Philharmonie und Chor Ernst Senff Chor Berlin Stefan Malzew, conductor		Genuin	GEN 88122	Live recording, Neubrandenburg
2005	28 June	Robert Leonardy Saarländisches Staatsorchester Saarbrücken Leonid Grin, conductor		LEICO-music	LEICO-9353	Live recording, Saarbrücken Busoni's version with four movements and without choir.
2003	26-29 March	Ernest Hall Sheffield Symphony Orchestra Halifax Choral Society John Longstaff, conductor		n/a	n/a	Live recording, Sheffield
2003	25 January	Marc-André Hamelin Dallas Symphony Orchestra Men of Dallas Symphony Chorus Andrew Litton, conductor		Dallas Symphony	DSCCD 66	Live recording, Dallas, Texas
2002	30 October	Massimiliano Damerini Orchestra del Teatro Carlo Felice Coro maschile e Orchestra di Ferruccio Busoni Jonathan Webb, conductor		MP3 album	n/a	Live recording, Genova
2001	31 March	Marc-André Hamelin Lathi Symphony Orchestra YL Male Voice choir Osmo Vänskä, conductor		YouTube	n/a	Live recording, Lahti (Finland) Hyperion DVDA68000 includes the 4. movement of this performance.
1999	20, 21 June	Marc-André Hamelin The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Men's voices of The City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus Mark Elder, conductor		Hyperion	CDA67143
1990	May	François-Joël Thiollier Orchestre Philharmonique et Chœur de Nice Chœur de l'Opera de Nice Michael Schønwandt, conductor		Kontrapunkt	32057
1990	8-13 February	David Lively Sinfonieorchester des Südwestfunks Baden-Baden Herrenchor des Freiburger Vokalensembles Michael Gielen, conductor		Koch International	CD 311 160 H1
1989	September	Giovanni Battel Warmia National Orchestra Coro Accademico di Olsztyn Silvano Frontalini, conductor		Bongiovanni	GB5509/10-2
1989	February	Viktoria Postnikova Orchestre National de France Chœur de Radio France Gennady Rozhdestvensky, conductor		Erato	2292-45478-2	Extremely broad tempi are applied - at 89:25 this recording is 21 minutes slower than Johansen's.
1989	4 February	Garrick Ohlsson The Cleveland Orchestra and Men's Chorus Christoph von Dohnányi, conductor		Telarc	CD-80207
1988	5 August	Peter Donohoe BBC Symphony Orchestra Men's voices of the BBC Singers Mark Elder, conductor		EMI	CDC 7 49996 2	Live recording, London "The event marks for me one of the most satisfying concerts of my professional life." (Peter Donohoe) "As electrifying as you're ever likely to hear " (Gramophone, April 1992)
1986	October	Volker Banfield Symphonieorchester und Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks Lutz Herbig, conductor		CPO	999 017-2
1985	28 February	Boris Bloch Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich Singkreis der Engardiner Kantorei Kammerchor Seminar Zürich Christoph Eschenbach, conductor		Aperto Schallplatten	APO 86106 (LP)	Live recording, Zürich
1967	20, 22, 26, 29 June	John Ogdon Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Men's voices of the John Alldis Choir Daniell Revenaugh, conductor		EMI	CDM 7 69850 2
1966	25 November	Pietro Scarpini Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Choir Rafael Kubelik, conductor		First Hand Records	FHR64	Live recording, Munich
1966	2 or 3 May	John Ogdon London Symphony Orchestra Men's voices of the John Alldis Choir Jascha Horenstein, conductor		Unpublished BBC recording		Live recording The recording is available for download.
1966	7 February	Pietro Scarpini The Cleveland Orchestra and Men's Chorus George Szell, conductor		Unpublished WQXR recording		Live recording Broadcast by New York's WQXR on 10 July 1966 Arbiter has indicated a CD release of this performance.
1956	15, 16 January	Gunnar Johansen NDR-Sinfonieorchester Männerchor des Norddeutschen Rundfunks Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, conductor		Music & Arts	CD-1163	Live recording, Hamburg
1948	3, 4 January	Noel Mewton-Wood BBC Symphony Orchestra BBC Men's Chorus Thomas Beecham, conductor		Somm Beecham Series	SOMMB15	Live recording, London
1936	23 November	Egon Petri Frankfurt a.M. Radio Orchestra Hans Rosbaud, conductor		Unpublished or lost		Live recording A 22 June 1932 live recording of the 4. movement by the same team is included on Arbiter 134. Only the 4. movement was performed at that event.

Established 26 November 2011. Latest update 9 June 2024.