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This release by pianist
Abel Sánchez-Aguilera
is big news among lovers of the music of composer
Kaikhosru Sorabji
, admittedly not a large group, but big enough to put this album on classical best-seller lists in the spring of 2024.
Sorabji
's
Toccata Terza
of 1955, thought lost, is not only performed but edited here after its rediscovery by
Sánchez-Aguilera
, a biochemist by training. The composer's toccatas, of which there are now four, may make a good place to begin with his thorny music; they have the virtuosity suggested by the name
Toccata
, as well as the general over-the-top
quality, but they are rooted, at least somewhat, in traditional forms. Fans of
Busoni
's music will find it a short step to
in these works, if not necessarily in everything he wrote. Consider the Passacaglia, the third movement of ten, which is an easily graspable take on the Baroque variation-based Passacaglia form. It is 48 minutes long and has 102 variations on the original theme. Several movements here (try the ninth movement, Capriccio) exploit the extremes of the piano keyboard, and
brings this aspect out well. So, too, does the engineering work from the
Piano Classics
label (an offshoot of
Brilliant Classics
) at a Madrid studio;
's high notes are piercing and ringing. (His instrument is not specified.) Beyond the specialist interest, this is a colorful and accessible recording of
's music for anyone. ~ James Manheim
Abel Sánchez-Aguilera
is big news among lovers of the music of composer
Kaikhosru Sorabji
, admittedly not a large group, but big enough to put this album on classical best-seller lists in the spring of 2024.
Sorabji
's
Toccata Terza
of 1955, thought lost, is not only performed but edited here after its rediscovery by
Sánchez-Aguilera
, a biochemist by training. The composer's toccatas, of which there are now four, may make a good place to begin with his thorny music; they have the virtuosity suggested by the name
Toccata
, as well as the general over-the-top
quality, but they are rooted, at least somewhat, in traditional forms. Fans of
Busoni
's music will find it a short step to
in these works, if not necessarily in everything he wrote. Consider the Passacaglia, the third movement of ten, which is an easily graspable take on the Baroque variation-based Passacaglia form. It is 48 minutes long and has 102 variations on the original theme. Several movements here (try the ninth movement, Capriccio) exploit the extremes of the piano keyboard, and
brings this aspect out well. So, too, does the engineering work from the
Piano Classics
label (an offshoot of
Brilliant Classics
) at a Madrid studio;
's high notes are piercing and ringing. (His instrument is not specified.) Beyond the specialist interest, this is a colorful and accessible recording of
's music for anyone. ~ James Manheim
This release by pianist
Abel Sánchez-Aguilera
is big news among lovers of the music of composer
Kaikhosru Sorabji
, admittedly not a large group, but big enough to put this album on classical best-seller lists in the spring of 2024.
Sorabji
's
Toccata Terza
of 1955, thought lost, is not only performed but edited here after its rediscovery by
Sánchez-Aguilera
, a biochemist by training. The composer's toccatas, of which there are now four, may make a good place to begin with his thorny music; they have the virtuosity suggested by the name
Toccata
, as well as the general over-the-top
quality, but they are rooted, at least somewhat, in traditional forms. Fans of
Busoni
's music will find it a short step to
in these works, if not necessarily in everything he wrote. Consider the Passacaglia, the third movement of ten, which is an easily graspable take on the Baroque variation-based Passacaglia form. It is 48 minutes long and has 102 variations on the original theme. Several movements here (try the ninth movement, Capriccio) exploit the extremes of the piano keyboard, and
brings this aspect out well. So, too, does the engineering work from the
Piano Classics
label (an offshoot of
Brilliant Classics
) at a Madrid studio;
's high notes are piercing and ringing. (His instrument is not specified.) Beyond the specialist interest, this is a colorful and accessible recording of
's music for anyone. ~ James Manheim
Abel Sánchez-Aguilera
is big news among lovers of the music of composer
Kaikhosru Sorabji
, admittedly not a large group, but big enough to put this album on classical best-seller lists in the spring of 2024.
Sorabji
's
Toccata Terza
of 1955, thought lost, is not only performed but edited here after its rediscovery by
Sánchez-Aguilera
, a biochemist by training. The composer's toccatas, of which there are now four, may make a good place to begin with his thorny music; they have the virtuosity suggested by the name
Toccata
, as well as the general over-the-top
quality, but they are rooted, at least somewhat, in traditional forms. Fans of
Busoni
's music will find it a short step to
in these works, if not necessarily in everything he wrote. Consider the Passacaglia, the third movement of ten, which is an easily graspable take on the Baroque variation-based Passacaglia form. It is 48 minutes long and has 102 variations on the original theme. Several movements here (try the ninth movement, Capriccio) exploit the extremes of the piano keyboard, and
brings this aspect out well. So, too, does the engineering work from the
Piano Classics
label (an offshoot of
Brilliant Classics
) at a Madrid studio;
's high notes are piercing and ringing. (His instrument is not specified.) Beyond the specialist interest, this is a colorful and accessible recording of
's music for anyone. ~ James Manheim
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