John Ogdon - The Complete RCA Album Collection John Ogdon

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Album-Release:
2014

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05.05.2015

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  • Carl Nielsen (1865–1931)
  • 1 Chaconne, Op. 32 10:15
  • 2 I. Allegretto un pochettino 03:30
  • 3 II. Poco moderato 02:24
  • 4 III. Molto adagio e patetico 05:41
  • 5 IV. Allegretto innocente 02:00
  • 6 V. Allegretto vivo 00:58
  • 7 VI. Allegro non troppo ma vigoroso 08:01
  • 8 I. Intonation - Maestoso 02:16
  • 9 II. Quasi allegretto 03:42
  • 10 III. Andante 06:03
  • 11 IV. Finale - Allegro 03:47
  • 12 No. 1 - Impromptu - Allegro fluente 02:43
  • 13 No. 2 - Molto adagio 03:16
  • 14 No. 3 - Allegro non troppo 05:16
  • Sergei Rachmaninow (1873–1943)
  • 15 I. Allegro moderato 11:55
  • 16 II. Lento 08:58
  • 17 III. Allegro molto 13:01
  • 18 I. Allegro agitato 07:30
  • 19 II. Non allegro 06:51
  • 20 III. Allegro molto 04:45
  • Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
  • 21 I. Allegro 10:45
  • 22 II. Scherzo, assai vivace 02:43
  • 23 III. Adagio sostenuto 15:22
  • 24 IV. Largo, allegro 12:11
  • Peter Mennin (1923-1983)
  • 25 I. Maestoso - Allegro 11:12
  • 26 II. Adagio religioso 08:25
  • 27 III. Allegro vivace 05:56
  • Richard Yardumian (1917-1985)
  • 28 I. Passacaglia 08:17
  • 29 II. Recitative 05:36
  • 30 III. Fugue 03:44
  • Charles Valentin Alkan (1813–1888)
  • 31 I. Allegro assai 26:44
  • 32 II. Adagio 11:47
  • 33 III. Alegretto alla barbaresca 10:17
  • Total Runtime 04:05:51

Info for John Ogdon - The Complete RCA Album Collection

Anlässlich des 25. Todestages des englischen Pianisten John Ogdon veröffentlicht Sony Classical jetzt erstmals eine Edition mit all seinen Aufnahmen für das Label RCA Victor. Darunter sind vier Einspielungen, die es bisher nur auf LP gab und jetzt erstmals auf CD erscheinen sowie sein Liszt-Rezital von 1972, das bisher nur in Japan veröffentlicht wurde. Darauf sind unter anderem die Ungarische Rhapsodie Nr. 2, die Années de pèlerinage Nr. 2-4 und der Mephisto Walzer zu hören.

Außerdem enthalten sind seine Aufnahmen der Rachmaninoff Sonaten Nr. 1 und 2, Beethovens Hammerklaviersonate op. 106, Solo-Werke von Carl Nielsen, das Klavierkonzert von Peter Mennin und die Passacaglia von Richard Yardumian mit dem Royal Philharmonic Orchestra unter Igor Buketoff sowie das Concerto pour piano seul von Charles Valentin Alkan enthalten.

'John Ogdon (1937 bis 1989) war in der Klavierwelt des 20. Jahrhunderts eine Kapazität, von der man noch heute, 25 Jahre nach seinem frühen Tod, mit allergrößter Hochachtung spricht. […] Jetzt bringt die RCA eine dicke Box mit wichtigen Aufnahmen Ogdons auf den Markt, und schon beim Lesen des Programms fühlt man sich wie in einem Erlebnispark.' (Die Zeit)

John Ogdon, Klavier
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Igor Buketoff, Dirigent

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John Ogdon
Born in Nottinghamshire on January 27, 1937 John Andrew Howard Ogdon studied at the Royal Northern College of Music under Richard Hall, where he and fellow students such as conductor Elgar Horwarth and composers Harrison Birtwistle, Alexander Goehr and Peter Maxwell Davis founded the influential group New Music Manchester. After college he studied piano with Gordon Green, Dennis Matthews, Dame Myra Hess and the noted Busoni pupil Egon Petri, who declared Ogdon his most talented pupil. After winning first prize in the 1961 London Liszt Competition, Ogdon’s international reputation took off in the aftermath of his victory in the 1962 Moscow International Tchaikovsky Competition, sharing first prize with Vladimir Ashkenazy. Gifted with a huge memory and an uncanny sight-reading ability, Ogdon amassed a large and diverse repertoire, much of which he recorded, including numerous works for piano duo with his wife Brenda Lucas.

While his career was curtailed by mental illness and a severe nervous breakdown in 1973, he eventually recovered to the point where he could resume concertizing and recording until his sudden death from pneumonia on August 1, 1989. During his final decade Ogdon continued to travel piano music’s lesser known paths, culminating with the first studio recording of Sorabji’s complex, five-hour-long Opus Clavicembalisticum. Ogdon also composed more than 200 works, including four operas, two piano concertos, two large orchestral pieces, piano and chamber music and more than fifty solo piano transcriptions based on composers ranging from Palestrina to Cole Porter.

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