Alfred Brendel’s least-known recordings are the four LPs he made for the US label SPA Records in the early 1950s. Until now, none has been given a full commercial release in the digital era but amongst them is a recording which is surely one of the most important in Brendel’s discography—that of Busoni’s Fantasia Contrappuntistica. This is now reissued here with Mr Brendel’s blessing, along with his first solo LP, the premiere recording of Liszt’s Weihnachtsbaum.