- Paperback: 304 pages
- Publisher: arima publishing (30 Mar 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1845492919
- ISBN-13: 978-1845492915
- Product Dimensions: 20 x 12.6 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 534,954 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Hailed in the 60's not only as the finest British pianist of his generation with a glittering international career and record contract with EMI Music,but as a musical genius of extraordinary ability. In 1973 at the pinnacle of his fame John Ogdon was struck down inexplicably by the first in a series of severe mental breakdowns. In this moving account his wife, concert pianist Brenda Lucas Ogdon, tells both of the happy years of touring, when success piled upon success and of the distressing years of illness with their long search for effective treatment. John died tragically and suddenly from undiagnosed Diabetes and Pneumonia, in 1989. He was mourned by countless friends and admirers.
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John Ogdon's wife wrote this story of their life together while her husband was still alive. It is very well written, in a clear, flowing style and describes their relationship in depth - it is not often that this type of book has these virtues. The triumphant part of the great virtuoso's life was all too short and soon descended into nightmare. Admirers of John Ogdon will want this book but it will also be of the greatest interest to anyone who has had to deal with or face manic depression (or bipolar illness, as it is now called). Not the least of the problems was getting the medical profession to acknowledge the seriousness of the illness and take appropriate action. The book is not all gloom: Brenda Lucas is a remarkably clear-sighted person who manages to remain optimisic most of the time. There are also some humorous anecdotes, such as the practical joke played on Sir Georg Solti. John broke into a Liszt cadenza in the middle of the Tchaikovsky concerto, leaving Solti white-faced as he wondered how he was going to manage the fact that the orchestra was about to enter in the wrong key.
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