Ferruccio Busoni - Berceuse Élégiaque

Berceuse élégiaque, for orchestra, Op. 42, KiV 252a (1909) Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra Samuel Wong Busoni wrote his Berceuse élégiaque for orchestra (1909) as a memorial to his mother, who died in May of that year. The work, subtitled “Des Mannes Wiegenlied am Sarge seiner Mutter“ (The Man’s Cradle Song at His Mother’s Coffin), also carries the inscription “The child’s cradle rocks, the hazard of his fate reels; life’s path fades, fades away into the eternal distance.“