His first works with the "perfumed garden" are a must...Begin with that ...
His 100 transcendental studies too ...Buy Ullen here ...
Dont begin with anything else...
Sorabji is an obsessed mind creating 9 hours pieces...
It is in a way a genious lost in himself ...
it is the reverse of Scriabin who spoke to us...
His short pieces transform us ...
Sorabji dont transform me but propose his own inner world for the sake of it and is indifferent to the listener in a way Scriabin was not , Scriabin vouched to redempt and save humanity from himself , he is a mystic; Sorabji is not a mystic but a poet inspired by mathematics and geometry...A Bach without the center of God... but is geometry is astounding and ask for a focussed attention almost no one can give...And it is unplayable on piano not for the same reason than Scriabin short pieces... how to keep the intensity for 4 or 5 hours in the Clavicem ? Ogdon only do it...Ullen do a job without defect on the transcendent studies...
i like Sorabji and by moment love him ...
Anyway no other composer use the piano this way....And anyway he is unknown because he had forbid people to play his works and anyway they are impossible to play because of duration...
@mahgister
Sorabji is intriguing. Will explore. Thanks!
