Sorabji Opus Clavicembalisticum

[h_chopin148]

Where can you find a good, complete recording of it? Are there any recordings on youtube?

[ahinton]

Where can you find a good, complete recording of it? Are there any recordings on youtube?

The best to go for is the one by John Ogdon on Altarus (AIR-CD-9075[5]); it's a 5-CD boxed set with a large informative accompanying book and is sold for the price of 4. If you are in US or Canada, you'd be best to get it from Records International; if elsewhere, then write to us at sorabji-archive@lineone.net and we will be happy to oblige. I am unaware of a complete recording on YouTube.

Best,

Alistair

[h_chopin148]

Okay thank you, I shall check Records International.

[apmapmapm]

Not that I don't appreciate the efforts of both Madge and Ogdon, but I would certainly love to see Jonathan Powell record this. A real pity I missed his NYC performance years back!

[ahinton]

Not that I don't appreciate the efforts of both Madge and Ogdon, but I would certainly love to see Jonathan Powell record this. A real pity I missed his NYC performance years back!

It was indeed a pity (I didn't miss it, by the way!). I daresay he'll do it some day; at the moment, however, hes putting the finishing touches to the composer's final piano symphony which was completed some 45 years later than Opus C and he will première this in the Netherlands in October with a second performance a few days later in Oxford, England.

Best,

Alistair.

[musicman99]

I didn't know it was possible to play!

Carlos R.

[ahinton]

I didn't know it was possible to play!

Given that it has had one public performance by the composer, six by Geoffrey Douglas Madge, two by John Ogdon, four by Jonathan Powell and two by Daan Vandewalle as well as two recordings by Madge and one by Ogdon, your lack of knowledge here might seem somewhat surprising if I may say so!

Best,

Alistair

[thalbergmad]

Perhaps "properly" should have been added onto the sentence.

Thal

[musicman99]

Whoops...