News from the Sorabji Archive
- 27 May 2009
- Kevin Bowyer’s performance on June 7th in Glasgow will consist of the Finale of the Second Organ Symphony, not the whole work, as previously announced.
- 5 February 2009
- Alistair Hinton announces completion of the project to scan all of the Archive’s holdings of Sorabji’s manuscripts, new editions, etc. All paper master copies will be put up for auction in due course. (Expressions of interest to Alistair Hinton are welcome.)
- 18 December 2008
- Jonathan Powell gives a performance of a substantial part of Sequentia Cyclica in London, at Bauer & Hieber (48 Great Marlborough Street), starting at 6pm. For further details, see below.
- November 2008
- Jonathan Powell gives two more performances of Villa Tasca in Denmark, and in the Netherlands, also performing Ives’s Concord Sonata at the Dutch concert. For further details, see below.
- 26 September 2008
- It is our sad duty to report that the pianist and Sorabji pioneer Yonty Solomon has died. His Sorabji performances included world premières of the Toccata, Piano Sonata no.3, Gulistan, St Bertrand de Comminges, Concerto per suonare da me solo and Rosario d’Arabeschi, as well as the first broadcast performances of the Trois poèmes pour chant et piano and Trois fêtes galantes de Verlaine with Jane Manning.
- His contribution was also marked by a beautiful recording of Le Jardin Parfumé.
- Announcement from the Royal College of Music
- 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.
- 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).- 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.
- 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.
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.
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