Concluding pages of Sorabji's Transcendental Studies no.99 / 100 and Sonata V

[bmn3]

I made excerpts of the last two studies and Opus archimagicum by Sorabji in MIDI format out of boredom, probably because I really wanted to hear these pieces. Feel free to listen to them here below:

Study 99: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1KESlkepJ6nWtiekz1zNs490I8jlihOKK
Study 100: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1oSv_hoS6LhVS_he5RBcaztGNjA7K31vo
Opus Arch: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1H9pvZEkA2MJR15xOi6_nA4gHLnoJi3hE

-RDL

[ahinton]

I made excerpts of the last two studies and Opus archimagicum by Sorabji in MIDI format out of boredom, probably because I really wanted to hear these pieces. Feel free to listen to them here below:

Study 99: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1KESlkepJ6nWtiekz1zNs490I8jlihOKK
Study 100: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1oSv_hoS6LhVS_he5RBcaztGNjA7K31vo
Opus Arch: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1H9pvZEkA2MJR15xOi6_nA4gHLnoJi3hE

-RDL

Please note that the final two CDs in Fredrik Ullén's traversal of the entire cycle of 100 Transcendental Studies - i.e. Vols. VI & VII - are due for release within the next six months or so and that all of the remaining studies have been recorded apart from the final two.

Best,

Alistair

[apmapmapm]

This is great to hear Alistair. When listening through the 5 cds we currently have, I discovered so many wonderful gems that would fare quite well in any concert. Excited to hear Ullen's fine pianism again.

[thalbergmad]

Cant wait.

[ahinton]

Cant wait.

You won't have to for much longer. Studies 99 & 100 were recorded last month and so the final two CDs containing studies 84-100 are anticipated for release over the next few months.

Patience is a virtue!

Best,

Alistair

[ahinton]

This is great to hear Alistair. When listening through the 5 cds we currently have, I discovered so many wonderful gems that would fare quite well in any concert. Excited to hear Ullen's fine pianism again.

Anyone concerned about the durations of certain of Sorabji's keyboard works would do well to sample these studies, any of which may be performed separately and, apart from nos. 69 (punta d'organo, 25'39"), 75 (passacaglia, 28'50") and the "prelude and fugue" that concludes this cycle, most are of modest dimensions, quite a few being only a few minutes long.

Best,

Alistair

[lostinidlewonder]

*crickets*

[thalbergmad]

quite a few being only a few minutes long.

Grateful for small mercies.

[thalbergmad]

Congratulations for reviving a 3 month old thread for another bit of advertising.

[ahinton]

Congratulations for reviving a 3 month old thread for another bit of advertising.

No need for congratulations, thanks, Thal, for all that they are of course graciously appreciated - but this project has been going on for a good few years and is now at last
complete apart from the actual release.

Best,

Alistair

[klavieronin]

Very excited for the release. I've been looking forward to this for a long time. Finally I will have the complete set. Just need to purchase a copy of the sheet music now.

[ahinton]

Very excited for the release. I've been looking forward to this for a long time. Finally I will have the complete set. Just need to purchase a copy of the sheet music now.

Well, you know where to come for that! This year will, as I have noted elsewhere, be a bumper one for Sorabji recordings, with the anticipated release of no less than a dozen CDs; Jonathan Powell's 7-CD boxed set of Sequentia cyclica and Abel Sánchez-Aguilera's 2-CD one of Toccata seconda on the Piano Classics label, Fredrik Ullén's final two volumes in the 7-CD series of the 100 Transcendental Studies on the BIS label and, before the year is out, Jonathan Powell's CD survey of some shorfter Sorabji works also on the Piano Classics label.

Best,

Alistair