News from the Sorabji Archive



21 July 2007
It is our sad duty to report that the pianist, scholar and translator Charles Hopkins died on 21 July.

Read a tribute to Charles Hopkins by Alistair Hinton.
26 November 2007
Sean Vaughn Owen announces the completion of his PhD thesis on Sorabji’s life, with substantial genealogical findings that alter previously accepted biographical details.
January 2008
Soheil Nasseri’s new recording of Sorabji’s Sonata no.0 is out on Centaur. As announced below, he is also to give several performances in 2008. The recording is coupled with recordings of Beethoven Sonata no.4 and Rachmaninov Sonata no.2 (original version).
January 2008
Jonathan Powell gives two more performances of Sorabji’s transcription of Strauss’s Salome.
February 2008
Kevin Bowyer gives his second performance of the first movement of the Second Symphony for Organ on Sunday 3 February 2008 at Glasgow’s University Memorial Chapel; he also plays Alistair Hinton’s Pansophiæ for John Ogdon.
February-March 2008
Soheil Nasseri gives several performances of the early Sonata, on February 17, Baltimore (An die Musik), February 23, Washington DC (Kennedy Center, Terrace Theater), February 27, Berlin (Philharmonie, Kammermusiksaal), March 20, London (Royal Festival Hall, Purcell Room).
22 April 2008
Kevin Bowyer announces details of The Sorabji Organ Project, a vast 5-year project to produce new critical typeset editions of Sorabji’s three mammoth organ symphonies, to give performances of each, along with commercial recordings of them. The project is funded by The Glasgow University Trust. More details can be found at the link above, and at Kevin Bowyer’s webpage.
23 November 2008
Jonathan Powell gives the second performance of Villa Tasca in the Netherlands, also performing Ives’s Concord Sonata. For further details, see below.

New editions available from the Archive

Sorabji editions
Jonathan Powell’s new edition of Sorabji’s transcription of Schlußszene from Richard Strauss’s Salome is now available.
Thomas Smetryns and Lukas Huisman have edited the 104 Frammenti Aforistichi (Sutras) for piano solo.
Simon Abrahams has completed his edition of Villa Tasca.
Alex Abercrombie has completed his edition of Sequentia Cyclica on “Dies Irae”.
Hinton editions
Editions prepared by Simon Abrahams of Alistair Hinton’s Piano Sonata No.3, Op.15 and Piano Sonata No.4 (Ballade), Op.18 are now available.

Forthcoming performances of Sorabji’s music

  • 23/11/2008: ’s Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
    Muziekcentrum De Toonzaal, Prins Bernardstraat 4-6

  • 07/06/2009: Glasgow, UK
    Glasgow University Memorial Chapel
    Glasgow Pipeworks 9

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