KAIKHOSRU SORABJI (1892-1988): 100 Transcendental Studies, Nos. 44-62.

Catalogue Number: 11M070

Label: BIS

Reference: CD-1713

Format: CD

Price: $19.98

Description: The more we hear of Sorabji's music the more it becomes apparent that the breadth of his expressive voice, and the extent to which he never repeated himself despite his prolific production of frequently vast works over an unusually long creative life (about 70 years), were truly extraordinary. As the 100 Studies progress, two things become apparent; that the inexhaustible wealth of invention contained here could have allowed him to produce a set of 343 had he had a mind to; and that as the cycle developed he seems to have become more interested in the music; there are progressively fewer pieces that sound as though they were written with mainly didactic intent, though the ones that do concentrate on specific Sorabjian figurations, scales and intervals (by this stage generally progressing through a series of different intervals rather than sticking with just one) certainly qualify as study material that would be a valuable addition to any pianist's arsenal of technique-honing material. Even the shortest, fast pieces with specific technical challenges sound more like characteristic scherzi than studies per se. The previous volume had one strategically-positioned extended nocturne-like piece; this has two - the first a Jardin parfume-like entanglement of viny melismas, the other an increasingly dense impressionistic fantasia. Fredrik Ullén (piano).

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