I just stumble on youtube version of my favorite "perfumed garden" of Sorabji :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCs0YeBOmOQ&list=RDcCs0YeBOmOQ&start_radio=1
Let's talk music, no genre boundaries
This is an offshoot of the jazz thread. I and others found that we could not talk about jazz without discussing other musical genres, as well as the philosophy of music. So, this is a thread in which people can suggest good music of all genres, and spout off your feelings about music itself.
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It seems that a new version of the "mount Everest" of piano work, the Clavicem Ballisticum of Sorabji was recorded and rival Ogdon majestic madness with a more deep analytical insight in the piece... I will buy it for sure... I have 20 box of Sorabi music... The clavicem box is 5 hours ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PCCGC3nFBU&list=PL9GK1dCgxUgxk-Aej5ibP6ntEdOSQq9xX Here an article of Gramophone about it :
I doubt it will beat Ogdon madness but i love too much Sorabji to let it go ...
By the way the Top Sorabji box is the incredible Ullen 100 transcendental studies 7 cd ... It is what is the heart of Sorabji for me : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsunU1Jyigk&list=PLRs_FxzJLU50ArgMv2Ykm9IUsELIYwoML If the clavicem is Mount Everest of Piano by the difficulties the transcendental Studies are Mount Erebus in Antartica, so varied, so strange, so fascinating , it is after for the beginner "perfumed garden" album the box we must buy at all cost if we love Sorabji ... For those who love Book, Roberge has written the authoritative book on Sorabji, 641 pages.the full book is free PDF here : https://www.sorabji-archive.co.uk/books/opus-sorabjianum.php
There is also but harder to find books autobiographical and philosophical written by Sorabji himself ...
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Music exist in speech as its root.. Then music has no need for a goal as a tree roots has no goal save to sustain life... We are the tree. Our roots dont have goal no more than our feet. But we speaking walking trees we speak or do music to "change our own consciousness level"... Music is not just leisure, pleasure,but a sacred moral duty as speech itself. This is the spiritual content of music. Music is more about a higher consciousness level, not about "taste" so much...But because we are all different, we "taste" different flavors and stick to them.It is why thread as this one matter, we must go out of our own habits and explore other realms...
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I have a number of Schnabel albums, playing mostly Beethoven's latter piano sonatas, but also a Schubert sonata. I don't get him. Compared to the more modern pianists I like, he sounds a bit clumsy. I know I must be missing something. @frogman Can you help me understand why Schnabel is considered great? |
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