Lowest Note on the Piano -- Key #1

[pita bread]

Also, you have a precedent set by pianist Michael Habermann, who recorded the Introito and Preludio corale separately from the rest of the work.

[ahinton]

Didn't Sorabji say that the OC may only be performed complete? Not that I don't think everyone has the freedom to do what they want with it.


The piece is just too long. It's not the theme ratio per measure or time that is the problem for some people. It's that the themes aren't obvious and that its just too long. Just like the Beethven 9th is too long. The quality makes it more amazing and interesting.

Bit too long for what? For whom? In what circumstances? Length of perceived experience of performance experience can be an intersting phenomenon, as witness a member of the audience for Jonathan Powell's recent account of Sorabji's Gulistan at the Radio France Montpellier Festival - the shortest 35 minutes in pianistic history. As you rightly observe, however, it is the content and quality of expression that counts; the physical duration is of little or no interest per se beyond the kind of thing that might happen to appeal to hardened professional (or indeed amateur) statisticians...

Best,

Alistair