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- Original Release Date: 31 Aug 2001
- Format - Music: MP3
- Compatible with MP3 Players (including with iPod®), iTunes, Windows Media Player
- Also available in CD Format
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| Disc 1: | |||||
| Song Title | Time | Price | |||
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| Play | 1. Op. clavicembalisticum: I. Introito | 3:17 | £0.59 | ||
| Play | 2. Op. clavicembalisticum: II. Preludio-Corale (Nexus) | 13:33 | Album Only | ||
| Play | 3. Op. clavicembalisticum: III. Fuga I quatuor vocibus | 12:05 | Album Only | ||
| Play | 4. Op. clavicembalisticum: IV. Fantasia | 5:35 | £0.59 | ||
| Play | 5. Op. clavicembalisticum: V. Fuga II duplex | 16:04 | Album Only | ||
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| Song Title | Time | Price | |||
| Play | 1. Op. Clavicembalisticum: VI. Interludium Primum (Thema Cum Xlix Variationibus) | 45:05 | Album Only | ||
| Play | 2. Op. clavicembalisticum: VII. Cadenza I | 5:12 | £0.59 | ||
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| Song Title | Time | Price | |||
| Play | 1. Op. Clavicembalisticum: VIII. Fuga Tertia Triplex: Dux Primus | 10:22 | Album Only | ||
| Play | 2. Op. Clavicembalisticum: VIII. Fuga Tertia Triplex: Dux Alter | 11:01 | Album Only | ||
| Play | 3. Op. Clavicembalisticum: VIII. Fuga Tertia Triplex: Dux Tertius | 12:32 | Album Only | ||
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| Song Title | Time | Price | |||
| Play | 1. Op. clavicembalisticum: IX. Interludium alterum: Toccata | 5:50 | £0.59 | ||
| Play | 2. Op. clavicembalisticum: IX. Interludium alterum: Adagio | 16:25 | Album Only | ||
| Play | 3. Op. Clavicembalisticum: IX. Interludium Alterum: Passacaglia Cum Lxxxi Variationibus | 35:22 | Album Only | ||
| Play | 4. Op. clavicembalisticum: X. Cadenza II | 3:28 | £0.59 | ||
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| Song Title | Time | Price | |||
| Play | 1. Op. clavicembalisticum: XI. Fuga IV quadruplex: Dux primus | 8:34 | Album Only | ||
| Play | 2. Op. clavicembalisticum: XI. Fuga IV quadruplex: Dux alter | 7:31 | £0.59 | ||
| Play | 3. Op. clavicembalisticum: XI. Fuga IV quadruplex: Dux tertius | 7:23 | £0.59 | ||
| Play | 4. Op. clavicembalisticum: XI. Fuga IV quadruplex: Dux quartus | 9:56 | Album Only | ||
| Play | 5. Op. clavicembalisticum: XII. Coda-Stretta | 7:34 | £0.59 | ||
| Play | 6. Op. clavicembalisticum: Applause | 2:21 | £0.59 | ||
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It may not come as a surprise to find that a British composer born Leon Dudley, who later adopted the title of Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, was to write some rather extreme music.
By no means the longest of Sorabji's works, the Opus Clavicembalisticum certainly is his most notorious. First performed in Glasgow in 1930 by the composer, himself a formidable pianist, it was not the dissonance in harmonies or terrifying virtuosity required from the performer that was to shock the music scene, but the sheer length of the piece.
Sorabji conceived Opus Clavicembalisticum to be about four- and three-quarter hours in length, so maybe he would turn in his grave to find that the performance Geoffrey Douglas Madge gives is a fraction under four hours. After all, Sorabji did declare a self imposed ban on the public performance of his works after a lesser pianist played a movement from the eponymous work too slowly.
So what about the performance? Well, Madge certainly considers the musical content more so than his recorded predecessor John Ogdon, who undoubtedly sight-read most of the thing. The sound is also good, albeit a bit warm and "fuzzy" giving the impression of over pedalling on the pianist's part.
Besides the less than top quality recorded sound, the pianism is of the highest calibre and this account should remain the bench mark for many years and many brave pianists to come.
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