It seems just one peculiarity among many in his biography that Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji developed an abiding fascination with Mediterranean culture -- partly because his mother claimed Spanish and Sicilian ancestry, but also because his belief in this heritage gave him an escape from the tedium of growing up in London. Early on, Sorabji dabbled ...
English Pianist Jonathan Powell takes on two "short" Kaikhosru Sorabji pieces on his fifth outing for Altarus in piano works of the reclusive critic, mystic, and virtuoso, Sorabji: Rosario d'Arabeschi/Gulistan. Timings are not provided in the package, but both the Rosario d'Arabeschi and Gulistan run in excess of 30 minutes' time; Gulistan was ...
Listening to this sonata is like looking at a richly detailed painting. On first seeing it, it strikes you as an incredibly full canvas. It's a matter of deciding what to look at first, the whole picture or the elements that make up the work. The first thing you wonder when you hear the beginning of this sonata is "Is that only one pianist?" In ...
Alexander Goldenweiser was one of the great founders of the "Russian Piano School," a tirelessly dedicated pedagogue who helped establish the very system of teaching piano in Russia that led to a number of successful, even legendary, concert artists. History often automatically remands the musical compositions belonging to those who teach to the ...
There aren't very many piano concertos out there for piano alone. The logic behind such a lopsided and seemingly self-contradictory formal concept is that the soloist undertakes both the solo part and the orchestral tutti on the same instrument; it goes back at least to Johann Sebastian Bach and his Italian Concerto. Kaikhosru Sorabji's point of ...
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