Ogdon complete RCA recordings released next week!

[neiltingley]

Set Contents:

DISC 1:
Nielsen: Chaconne op. 32
Suite Op. 45
Symphonic Suite, Op. 8
Three Piano Pieces, Op. 59

DISC 2:
Rachmaninoff: Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 28
Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 36

DISC 3:
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-Flat Major, Op. 106 "Große Sonate für das Hammerklavier"

DISC 4:
Mennin: Piano Concerto
Yardumian: Passacaglia, Recitative and Fugue for Piano and Orchestra

DISC 5:
Alkan: Concerto pour piano seul

DISC 6:
Liszt: Rhapsodie Hongoroise No. 2 in C-sharp Minor (S.244)
Liszt: Mazeppa (Etude Defexecution transcendante S.139, No. 4)
Liszt: Feux follets (Etude Defexecution transcendante S.139, No. 5)
Liszt: La Campanelle (Grosse Etuden von Paganini S.141, No. 3)
Liszt: Au bord d'une Source (Annees de Pelerinage: Premiere Annee: Suisse S.160, No.4)
Liszt: Il Pensieroso (Annees de Pelerinage: Seconde Annee: Italie S.161, No. 2)
Liszt: Tarantella (Annees de Pelerinage: Supplement aux Seconde Annee: Venezia e Napoli S.162, No. 3)
Liszt: Grand Galop Chromatique S.219
Liszt: Mephisto-Walzer S.110

[amateur51]

What a treat!

[richardfinegold]

I had formerly owned the Hammerklavier and some of the Alkan, but I thought the lps were EMI, not RCA...

[umslopogaas]

Both on RCA LPs in the UK: the codes are Alkan LSB 4078 (1969); Beethoven SB 6821 (1970). Both issued by RCA Ltd Record Division, London.

[Dave2002]

This might have the cheapest price of the shortly to be released set - http://www.amazon.co.uk/John-Ogdon-C.../dp/B00I4L172C

About £20.

[Barbirollians]

I have just got this and have not listened to any of it yet ? Any recommendations where to start - after his mesmerising Op 111 on BBC Legends I am tempted to start with the Hammerklavier .

[reinerfan]

I have had this for some time now, courtesy of Amazon Italia, and it is excellent. I think that the "Hammerklavier" is the place to start.

[salymap]

Wish I could see to read it.

I remember seeing him in London's Oxford Street, cutttng a path though the crowds with that jutting beard,

[BBMmk2]

I want!!!

[amateur51]

I want!!!

What Wanda wants, Wanda gets!

[umslopogaas]

Phew! Has anyone listened to these discs yet? I just played the Alkan Concerto for Solo Piano disc and I'm still trying to get my breath back. I knew Alkan wrote some virtuoso stuff, but I never heard anything like this disc. I'd swear there were two people on that piano, but apparently it was John Ogdon, all on his own. Try the last part of the last movement, it is just not possible that any human hands can play like that.

[EdgeleyRob]

Phew! Has anyone listened to these discs yet? I just played the Alkan Concerto for Solo Piano disc and I'm still trying to get my breath back. I knew Alkan wrote some virtuoso stuff, but I never heard anything like this disc. I'd swear there were two people on that piano, but apparently it was John Ogdon, all on his own. Try the last part of the last movement, it is just not possible that any human hands can play like that.

Staggering isn't it.
Piano music and playing from another universe.

[EdgeleyRob]

I have just got this and have not listened to any of it yet ? Any recommendations where to start - after his mesmerising Op 111 on BBC Legends I am tempted to start with the Hammerklavier .

Alkan.

[umslopogaas]

Alkan. Just amazing playing. In a sense, one gets used to astonishing piano playing on record, especially if like me, you cant play a note on the piano. But among the astonishing players, Ogdon stands out as ... unbelievable. His playing seems to say, "Huh, you think that's difficult, wait till you hear THIS!"