Busoni plays Liszt Paganini Variation No.6 - Piano roll recording (Reconstruction)

The legendary pianist and composer Ferruccio Busoni made many piano roll recordings in the 1900’s but this work, Liszt’s Paganini Variations demonstrates above all his fabulous technique. He recorded several pieces from this set, most notably No. 3 La Campanella for both Hupfeld and Aeolian. The Aeolian Duo Art version of this is very well known, whilst the other numbers he played for other roll manufacturers such as Hupfeld and Philipps are virtually unknown and unheard including this one No. 6 which is entitled ’Theme and Variations’. This is a very strange roll as most of the variations seem to have been recorded at different tempi, which may possibly mean that Busoni originally made several different ’takes’ on the master roll which remained uncorrected. Or it could be bad production methods. I have tried to determine the correct tempi for each variation and joined them together to try and get near to something like the original sound. If you are expecting to hear a perf