KSS17 Two Piano Pieces
Piece details
- Written for: Piano
- Date composed: 1918/1920
- Dedicatee: Theodore Jenkins
- Approximate duration (minutes): 10
- Manuscript pages: 8/12
- Manuscript location: Unknown
- Comments: In the Hothouse (1918) and Toccata (1920), published by London and Continental Music Publishing 1921.
Editions available from the Sorabji Archive
- Copy of publication, A3P. 20 pages.
Price: £15 (paper), £10 (pdf)
Right-click to download high resolution sample page: PDF PNG - Typeset edition (Ramer Davey Lee), A3L. 12 pages.
Price: £15 (paper), £10 (pdf)
Right-click to download high resolution sample page: PDF PNG
Recordings
- Michael Habermann (piano),
Musical Heritage Society/MusicMasters MHS4271L (LP), MHC6271M (Cassette), MM20015 (LP), MM60015 (CD) (November 1980)
Track 2 In the Hothouse (6:05)
Track 3 Toccata (3:33) - Michael Habermann (piano),
British Music Society BMS427-429 (3CDs) (2004)
Track 1 In the Hothouse (6:05)
Track 2 Toccata (3:33) - Michael Habermann (piano),
Naxos 8.571363-65 (2015)
Track 1 In the Hothouse (6:05)
Track 2 Toccata (3:33)
Performances
- 17/05/1946 Cecil Ewing (piano) [In the Hothouse]
Reception Room, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
Annual concert - 11/05/1975 Michael Habermann (piano) [In the Hothouse]
Christ Church Parish Hall, Oyster Bay NY, USA - 20/06/1975 Michael Habermann (piano) [In the Hothouse]
Nassau Conservatory of Music, Rockville Center NY, USA
Student Recital - 12/03/1976 Michael Habermann (piano) [In the Hothouse]
Quealy Hall, Molloy College, Rockville Center NY, USA - 21/03/1976 Michael Habermann (piano) [In the Hothouse]
Bryant Library, Roslyn NY, USA - 03/05/1976 Michael Habermann (piano) [In the Hothouse]
Music Building, Nassau Community College, Garden City NY, USA
Lecture-recital - 10/05/1976 Michael Habermann (piano) [In the Hothouse]
Music Building, Nassau Community College, Garden City NY, USA
Lecture-recital - 07/12/1976 Yonty Solomon (piano) [In the Hothouse]
Wigmore Hall, London, UK - 07/12/1976 Yonty Solomon (piano), Yonty Solomon (piano) [Toccata]
Wigmore Hall, London, UK - 03/04/1977 Michael Habermann (piano) [In the Hothouse]
Great Neck House, Great Neck NY, USA - 17/04/1977 Michael Habermann (piano) [In the Hothouse]
Quealy Hall, Molloy College, Rockville Center NY, USA - 24/04/1977 Michael Habermann (piano) [In the Hothouse]
South Branch Public College Library, Farmingdale NY, USA - 22/05/1977 Michael Habermann (piano) [In the Hothouse]
Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, New York NY, USA - 17/10/1977 Yonty Solomon (piano) [In the Hothouse]
Cripps Hall, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK - 15/04/1978 Michael Habermann (piano) [Toccata]
Great Hall, Post College, Greenvale NY, USA - 13/05/1978 Michael Habermann (piano) [Toccata]
Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, New York NY, USA - 19/09/1978 Michael Habermann (piano)
Great Hall, Post College, Greenvale NY, USA - 27/09/1978 Michael Habermann (piano)
Music Building, Nassau Community College, Garden City NY, USA - 06/10/1978 Michael Habermann (piano)
Midland Center for the Arts, Midland MI, USA
American Liszt Society Festival - 15/11/1978 Yonty Solomon (piano) [In the Hothouse]
Concert Hall, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland - 09/08/1979 Michael Habermann (piano)
University of Maryland, College Park MD, USA
International Piano Festival: Lecture-recital - 06/11/1979 Valerie Tryon (piano) [In the Hothouse]
Convocation Hall, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
Lunchtime Concert - 19/11/1979 Michael Habermann (piano) [In the Hothouse]
Talmadge Hall, Hollins College, Roanoke VA, USA - 16/12/1979 Michael Habermann (piano) [In the Hothouse]
Vogt Theater, Bloomfield Public Library, Bloomfield NJ, USA - 01/02/1980 Valerie Tryon (piano) [In the Hothouse]
Walter Hall, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
New Music Concerts: Illustrated Lecture by Paul Rapoport - ??/06/1981 Robert Keeley (piano) [In the Hothouse]
Magdalen College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK - 05/07/1981 Geoffrey Douglas Madge (piano)
De Vleeshal, Middelburg, Netherlands - 10/07/1981 Michael Habermann (piano) [In the Hothouse]
Back Door II, Baltimore MD, USA - 24/11/1983 Yonty Solomon (piano)
Great Hall, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK - 30/06/1984 Martin Offord (piano) [In the Hothouse]
Purcell Room, London, UK - 17/07/1984 Robert Keeley (piano) [In the Hothouse]
British Music Information Centre, London, UK - 06/10/1988 John Gibbons (piano) [In the Hothouse]
Duke’s Hall, Royal Academy of Music, London, UK - 20/02/1990 Malcolm Rycraft (piano) [In the Hothouse]
Concert Hall, Royal College of Music, London, UK - 20/02/1990 Christopher Seed (piano) [In the Hothouse]
St John’s, Smith Square, London, UK - 06/06/1990 Christopher Seed (piano) [In the Hothouse]
St Olave’s Church, Hart Street, London, UK
Lunchtime Recital - 14/06/1990 Christopher Seed (piano) [In the Hothouse]
St Paul’s Church, Knightsbridge, London, UK
“Summer in Knightsbridge” (St Paul’s Flower and Music Festival), Lunchtime Recital - 05/12/1990 Julian Saphir (piano)
Steinway Hall, London, UK
1990-1991 Invitation Recital Series - 23/03/1992 Julian Saphir (piano) [In the Hothouse]
Concert Hall, Royal College of Music, London, UK - 08/07/1992 Julian Saphir (piano) [In the Hothouse]
Recital Hall, Royal College of Music, London, UK - 04/11/1992 Derek Bell (piano)
Woodwick House, Evie, Orkney Is, Scotland - 21/01/1993 Julian Saphir (piano) [In the Hothouse]
British Music Information Centre, London, UK - 02/02/1995 Bengt Forsberg (piano) [In the Hothouse]
Hörsalen, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
Lunch Concert - 12/12/1996 Stephen Gosling (piano) [In the Hothouse]
Paul Recital Hall Juilliard School of Music, New York NY, USA - ??/10/1998 Julian Saphir (piano)
West Buckland School, Barnstaple, UK - 11/08/1999 David Pitman (piano)
Theatre, Queensland Conservatorium of Music, Brisbane, Australia - 03/11/2000 Christopher Seed (piano) [In the Hothouse]
Milner Hall, Winchester, UK
“A Century of Composers’ - 13/06/2003 Alex Szram (piano) [In the Hothouse]
Southwark Cathedral, London, UK - 06/08/2005 Douglas Finch (piano) [In the Hothouse]
UBC First Nations Longhouse, Vancouver, Canada
Industrial Alliance Pacific First Nations Longhouse series: Classical UK Then and Now — Exotic Britannia - 27/10/2006 Lukas Huisman (piano) [In the Hothouse]
The Blue Hall, Muziekacademie, Ghent, Belgium - 20/05/2009 Martin Offord (piano) [In the Hothouse]
Wiener Konzerthaus, Vienna, Austria - 20/02/2010 Stephen Clarke (piano)
Gallery 345, Toronto, Canada - 05/01/2011 Stephen Clarke (piano)
Le Poisson Rouge, New York, USA - 28/10/2012 Florian Steininger (piano) [In the Hothouse]
Geschlossende Gesellschaft, Zipfen, Germany - 11/11/2012 Florian Steininger (piano) [In the Hothouse]
St.Marien, Gaggenau, Germany - 15/02/2013 Florian Steininger (piano) [In the Hothouse]
Musentempel, Karlsruhe, Germany - 28/06/2014 Kit Armstrong (piano) [i]
Ordenssaal, Residenzschloss Ludwigsburg, Ludwigsburg, Germany
Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele, Baden-Württemberg - 30/09/2014 Kit Armstrong (piano) [i]
Zeughaus, Neuss, Germany - 23/03/2016 Steven Max (piano) [In the Hothouse]
Manhattan School of Music, New York, NY, USA
Master of Music recital - 27/09/2017 Mark Dowling (piano) [In the Hothouse]
St. Mary’s Church, Ealing, London, UK
Lunchtime recital - 18/11/2017 Kyle Hannenberg (piano) [In the Hothouse]
Steinway Piano Gallery, Hinsdale, IL, USA - 27/01/2019 Jonathan Powell (piano) [In the Hothouse]
Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, Oxford, UK - 26/08/2021 Harry Bowden (piano) [In the Hothouse]
Stoller Hall, Chethams’ School of Music, Manchester, UK
International Piano Summer School - 20/02/2022 Rebeca Omordia (piano) [In the Hothouse]
Barbican Centre, London, UK
Listening to Place - 01/09/2022 Harry Bowden (piano) [In the Hothouse]
C. Bechstein Centre, Manchester, UK - 19/03/2024 Shantanu Patel (piano) [In the Hothouse]
Middlesex University, London, UK - 20/04/2024 Harry Bowden (piano) [In the Hothouse]
Emmanuel Church, Didsbury, Manchester, UK - 27/04/2024 Harry Bowden (piano) [In the Hothouse]
Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, UK
Broadcasts etc.
- 18/05/1977 Michael Habermann (piano) [In the Hothouse]
WNYC (radio), New York NY, USA [broadcast] - 20/05/1977 Michael Habermann (piano) [In the Hothouse]
WQXR (radio), New York NY, USA [broadcast of recording]
“The Listening Room” programme - 11/06/1977 Yonty Solomon (piano) [In the Hothouse(extract)]
LWT (London Weekend Television), London, UK [broadcast]
“Aquarius” programme - 07/11/1977 Yonty Solomon (piano)
BBC Radio 3, London, UK [broadcast] - 08/05/1978 Michael Habermann (piano) [In the Hothouse]
WFUV (radio), New York NY, USA [broadcast] - 10/08/1980 Valerie Tryon (piano) [In the Hothouse]
CBC (radio), Toronto, Canada [broadcast of recording] - 12/10/1980 Valerie Tryon (piano) [In the Hothouse]
Home of William Marsh, Newtown PA, USA [recording]
Delius Society (Philadelphia branch) meeting: Lecture by Paul Rapoport - ??/03/1981 Michael Habermann (piano)
US National Public Radio (many stations), , USA [broadcast]
“Grand Piano” programme - 01/08/1983 Michael Habermann (piano)
WFUY (radio), New York NY, USA [broadcast of recording]
“Concert Grande” programme - 13/06/1990 Michael Habermann (piano) [Toccata]
KPBX Radio, Spokane WA, USA [broadcast of recording]
“Chamber Music” programme - 08/05/2001 Michael Habermann (piano)
KUSP (Radio), Santa Cruz CA, USA [broadcast of recording] - 06/05/2002 Michael Habermann (piano) [In the Hothouse]
WUGA (Radio), Athens GA, USA [broadcast of recording] - 25/02/2023 Michael Habermann (piano) [In the Hothouse (extract), Toccata (extract)]
Radio-France: https://www.radiofrance.fr/francemusique/podcasts/musicopolis/kaikhosru-sorabji-un-compositeur-bien-secret-6078820, Paris, France [broadcast of recording]
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