Habermann plays Sorabji
Michael Habermann (piano)
British Music Society: BMS427-429 (3CDs) (2004)
Web page for British Music SocietyDuration: 197:54 Comments: Reissue of all of Habermann’s earlier recordings (except the BIS CD of transcriptions).
Track listing
- Track 1: Two Piano Pieces In the Hothouse (6:05)
- Track 2: Two Piano Pieces Toccata (3:33)
- Track 3: Fantaisie Espagnole (15:13)
- Track 4: Valse-Fantaisie (Hommage à Johann Strauss) (15:22)
- Track 5: Three Pastiches for piano Pastiche on Hindu Merchant’s Song from Rimsky-Korsakov’s Sadko (4:05)
- Track 6: Three Pastiches for piano Pastiche on the Habanera from Bizet’s Carmen (4:38)
- Track 7: Three Pastiches for piano Pastiche on Chopin’s Waltz op.64 no.1 (4:13)
- Track 9: Le Jardin Parfumé (19:05)
- Track 10: Nocturne: Djâmi (22:12)
- Track 11: Gulistān (29:32)
- Track 12: Opus Clavicembalisticum Introito and Preludio-Corale (13:15)
- Track 13-15: Prelude, Interlude and Fugue (15:00)
- Track 13: Prelude (3:13)
- Track 14: Interlude (5:44)
- Track 15: Fugue (6:03)
- Track 16: Fragment final version (2:47)
- Track 17: Fantasiettina sul nome illustre dell’egregio poeta Christopher Grieve ossia Hugh M’Diarmid (2:37)
- Track 18: Quaere Reliqua Hujus Materiei Inter Secretiora (16:49)
- Track 19: St Bertrand de Comminges (20:20)
Reviews
- “Habermann performs extraordinary technical and musical feats: these discs are a must for anyone interested in post-Romantic piano music.” (BBC Music Magazine)
- “… there can be no doubting the extent of Habermann’s sympathies, nor the depth of his insight.” (Gramophone)
- “(Habermann) has internalized this composer’s daunting aesthetic to unprecedented and possibly unsurpassed degrees.” (International Record Review)
- “An essential set … to explore some of the most amazing pianistic composition of the 20th century.” (International Piano)
- “Habermann is a splendid exponent of the pyrotechnical wizardry and the richness of these scores.” (Penguin Guide to Compact Discs)