I first heard his transcendental étude 10 and hated it. I just by chance stumbled back into Sorabji through reading about Marc Hamelin. What an amazing composer! His harmony is atonal and unexpected yet beautiful. So much more organic than Schoenberg and the Viennese.
Initially I was turned off completely by Sorabji's OC and his shenanigans like etude no.9, but this is beautiful despite a lot of atonality. Nice, I'm glad I gave him another chance.
This music. What did Ogden and Busoni see here.They were like the early English writers wanting to believe in Marxisn under the aegis of Lenin and realizing too late they got it all wrong.Sorabji. Oh DEAR! Imagination in this period? It ain't here! Deservedly Forgotten.More Debussy,Ravel please. This is Like weedy Delius with personlity but no musicality! Gross! Tasteless! Boulez saved us all!
@lovesGenet Oh my gosh, loveegenet.... I know sorabji's music can be a very unusual and sometimes obtuse matter to approach... especially since it's easy to try to hear a piece like the above etude in the light of debussy and ravel... but man, his music is so worth giving it a shot... it needs to be listened to and studied repeatedly i think to be truly appreciated.
@lovesGenet Yeah, and even your "Messiah" Boulez has abandoned his radical anti-tonal music à la Deuxième Sonate and instead composed much more impressionistic music like Dérive 2 or Sur Incises, so I'd think it best for you to shut your mouth up and stop spreading hogwash all over YouTube.
Not half as interesting as RuthCrawfordSeeger or even Coplands Variations.This is just old-fashioned virtuoso a little eastern harmony thrown romantic salon music.trying to be epicDid Busoni take any of thisw seriouslywith Scryabin,Schoenberg around.oh brother.The piano writing. oh brother Not really original at all is itand so old-fashioned.Try Seegers study on accentsfor early 20th century if not Bartok's etudes and the serialists.wht didOgdon see in this?but challenge?
@lovesGenet Unless time will cease to exist, all music is inherently "old-fashioned", for one day it won't be contemporary anymore. Why, then, do you bother even listening to anything?
Fantastic performance. It brings the very best qualities out of Sorabji's ideas of consistent rhythmic device. Not to drag out a name that everyone uses frequently, but it would be great to hear this pianists ideas on the Opus Clavicembalisticum or his transcriptions of Bizet's Carmen.
The most tonal piece i've heard by sorabji was his sonata no. 1 played by hamelin, but this is "pretty tonal" as well (compared to most of his other pieces). 5/5
Sorabji is a very tonal composer, sometimes he can be extremely dissonant but all of his music has a clear tonal center. Listen to Micheal Habermans analysis of Gulistan on youtube.
I first heard his transcendental étude 10 and hated it. I just by chance stumbled back into Sorabji through reading about Marc Hamelin. What an amazing composer! His harmony is atonal and unexpected yet beautiful. So much more organic than Schoenberg and the Viennese.
darthjoey13 1 month ago
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2hyeok 6 months ago
Initially I was turned off completely by Sorabji's OC and his shenanigans like etude no.9, but this is beautiful despite a lot of atonality. Nice, I'm glad I gave him another chance.
arcturian627 7 months ago
Lovely music :)
turboturbante 9 months ago
Finally sorabji is not a metal riffer
VCube100 1 year ago
i could listen to sorabji all day
Pianomaster26 1 year ago
This music. What did Ogden and Busoni see here.They were like the early English writers wanting to believe in Marxisn under the aegis of Lenin and realizing too late they got it all wrong.Sorabji. Oh DEAR! Imagination in this period? It ain't here! Deservedly Forgotten.More Debussy,Ravel please. This is Like weedy Delius with personlity but no musicality! Gross! Tasteless! Boulez saved us all!
lovesGenet 1 year ago
@lovesGenet Oh my gosh, loveegenet.... I know sorabji's music can be a very unusual and sometimes obtuse matter to approach... especially since it's easy to try to hear a piece like the above etude in the light of debussy and ravel... but man, his music is so worth giving it a shot... it needs to be listened to and studied repeatedly i think to be truly appreciated.
mike4973 1 year ago
@lovesGenet Yeah, and even your "Messiah" Boulez has abandoned his radical anti-tonal music à la Deuxième Sonate and instead composed much more impressionistic music like Dérive 2 or Sur Incises, so I'd think it best for you to shut your mouth up and stop spreading hogwash all over YouTube.
ThoughtsofaPerson 1 year ago
I was taught to avoid parallel fifths. Boy, was my teacher wrong.
georgecziffra 1 year ago 6
@georgecziffra haha, that's only for four-part harmony in adjacent voices anyway
Sveccha93 10 months ago
Not half as interesting as RuthCrawfordSeeger or even Coplands Variations.This is just old-fashioned virtuoso a little eastern harmony thrown romantic salon music.trying to be epicDid Busoni take any of thisw seriouslywith Scryabin,Schoenberg around.oh brother.The piano writing. oh brother Not really original at all is itand so old-fashioned.Try Seegers study on accentsfor early 20th century if not Bartok's etudes and the serialists.wht didOgdon see in this?but challenge?
lovesGenet 1 year ago
@lovesGenet Besmirch Sorabji again and I will come out of the screen and hit you in the face.
Oh brother!
hoiszhdfoifh22 1 year ago
@lovesGenet Unless time will cease to exist, all music is inherently "old-fashioned", for one day it won't be contemporary anymore. Why, then, do you bother even listening to anything?
ThoughtsofaPerson 1 year ago
This is genius!
Zebeldarebel 2 years ago
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mdeonx16 2 years ago
Fantastic performance. It brings the very best qualities out of Sorabji's ideas of consistent rhythmic device. Not to drag out a name that everyone uses frequently, but it would be great to hear this pianists ideas on the Opus Clavicembalisticum or his transcriptions of Bizet's Carmen.
Lukecash12 2 years ago
The most tonal piece i've heard by sorabji was his sonata no. 1 played by hamelin, but this is "pretty tonal" as well (compared to most of his other pieces). 5/5
mdeonx16 2 years ago
More like a spiraling path of parallel fifths.
Zinkalt 2 years ago 2
Sorabji is a very tonal composer, sometimes he can be extremely dissonant but all of his music has a clear tonal center. Listen to Micheal Habermans analysis of Gulistan on youtube.
pianiplunker 2 years ago
Uau ordinatissimo.... sembra uno spartito stampato.. e non manoscritto.. complimenti
massimiliano123123 2 years ago
this seems "earable" rather than the other..
Erikk91 2 years ago 4
4:32 is my favorite part. I think he should have hit the chord a little stronger...
ReturnOfTheStienway 2 years ago 5
I'm glad to see this stuff on here.. I have always been looking at these scores... wondering what it might sound like.
ReturnOfTheStienway 2 years ago 3
it is pretty cool you have the music to this
where did you get your scores from.
where can I obtain a copy
teoakinyel 2 years ago 3
sorabji archive.
SwordlessSlayerIzPro 2 years ago 3
I love it! haha I guess this is as tonal as Sorabji gets
egyptianghetto56 2 years ago 7
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Lukecash12 2 years ago 19
@Lukecash12 i agree, very observant.. not too many appreciate the genius in this!!!
avallega4 3 weeks ago
Beautiful!
4candles 3 years ago 22