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Peter Lundin <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 23 Sep 1999 18:29:01 +0200
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The september releases from the local (for me) classical label BIS,
contains a treat (?) for us with a meglomanian intrest (?) - I quote
from the catalogue:

  BIS-CD-1062/64 - Total playing time: 238'22
  Kaikhosru Sorabji: Opus clavicembalisticum (1929-30).
  Geoffrey Douglas Madge, piano.

   Kaikhosru Sorabji is a legendary figure in music:  a man much larger
   than life whose music is conceived on a grander scale than any previous
   composer's.  His Opus clavicembalisticum, presented here on 5 CDs
   (for the price of three!), is generally agreed to be a seminal work
   in the piano literature, as well as a Guinness Book of Records record
   holder for being the longest published piano piece.  Geoffrey Douglas
   Madge studied the work, "by far the most technically difficult piece
   written for piano", for some 22 years to meet Sorabji's requirement
   of being able "to play this piece as if it is easy".

I dont know if I will endure the expence, already owning John Ogdons
pioneering recording from the eighties, still I find it uplifting that
someone in the classical business dears to undertake such a monumental
release.

I think we had a shorth thread on Sorabij earlier this year, pleaing for a
new recording, alas with a nother pianist (M.  A.  Hamelin), but still...

What knowest the list about the pianists reputation, is he a magicain
enough to pull it of (might someone allready have spunn these discs?)

peter lundin, gothenburg.se -  Counting the days: DSCH 100 (1906-2006)

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