KSS20 Piano Sonata No. 1
Piece details
- Written for: Piano
- Date composed: 1919
- Dedicatee: Ferruccio Busoni
- Approximate duration (minutes): 22
- Manuscript pages: 42
- Manuscript location: Library of Congress
- Comments: Published (London and Continental Music Publishing 1921).
Editions available from the Sorabji Archive
- Copy of publication, A3P. 43 pages.
Price: £15 (paper), £10 (pdf)
Right-click to download high resolution sample page: PDF PNG - Manuscript, A3L. 42 pages.
Price: £15 (paper), £10 (pdf)
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Recordings
- Marc-André Hamelin (piano),
Altarus Records AIR-CD9050 (July 1990)
Track 1 (22:06)
Performances
- ??/11/1919 Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (piano)
Regent’s Park (home of Maud Allan), London, UK
Private reading in presence of Busoni - 02/11/1920 Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (piano)
Mortimer Hall, London, UK
2nd “Sackbut” concert - 13/01/1922 Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (piano)
Kammersaal, Musikverein, Bösendorferstrasse, Vienna, Austria - 10/02/1988 Yonty Solomon (piano)
Leicester Polytechnic, Leicester, UK - 19/03/1989 Marc-André Hamelin (piano)
Convocation Hall, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
Celebrity Concert - 31/05/1989 Marc-André Hamelin (piano)
Salle Henri-Gagnon, Pavillon Louis-Jacques-Casault, Université Laval, Québec, Canada
Congrès 1989 de la Société de Musique des Universités Canadiennes - 31/10/1989 Marc-André Hamelin (piano)
Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, New York NY, USA
The League of Composers/International Society for Contemporary Music - 05/02/1990 Marc-André Hamelin (piano)
Opéra, Centre National des Arts, Ottawa, Canada
Celebrity Recital - 24/05/1990 Jonathan Powell (piano)
British Music Information Centre, London, UK - 02/08/1990 Marc-André Hamelin (piano)
Domaine Forget, St-Irénée, Canada
XIIIième Saison — Festival International du Domaine Forget - 23/08/1990 Marc-André Hamelin (piano)
Rittersaal/Konzertsaal, Schloß vor Husum, Husum, Germany
Raritäten der Klaviermusik - 20/10/1990 Marc-André Hamelin (piano)
Recital Hall, M O Morgan Music Building, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John’s, Canada - 14/11/1990 Marc-André Hamelin (piano)
Hensel Hall, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster PA, USA - 18/06/1991 Jonathan Powell (piano)
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, UK - 17/06/1997 Jonathan Powell (piano)
British Music Information Centre, London, UK - 11/08/1999 David Pitman (piano)
Theatre, Queensland Conservatorium of Music, Brisbane, Australia - 24/07/2005 Jonathan Powell (piano)
Salle Pasteur, Centre Corum, Montpellier, France
Montpellier Festival - 28/11/2007 Jonathan Powell (piano)
Ploshchad’ iskusstv 3 (Arts Square, 3), St Petersburg, Russia - 30/11/2007 Jonathan Powell (piano)
Music School of the Moscow Conservatoire, Bolshaya Nikitsaya, Moscow, Russia - 28/10/2014 Jonathan Powell (piano)
Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA, USA
Poncho Concert Hall - 07/06/2016 Jonathan Powell (piano)
University Hall, Tartu, Estonia - 17/06/2016 Jonathan Powell (piano)
Temppeliaukion kirkko, Helsinki, Finland - 27/06/2019 Gabriel Keen (piano)
City Lit, London, UK - 23/10/2019 Gabriel Keen (piano)
1901 Arts Club, London, UK
Book launch for Kaikhosru Sorabji’s Letters to Philip Heseltine (Peter Warlock) - 19/11/2019 Gabriel Keen (piano)
Concert Room, Middlesex University, London, UK
Book launch for Kaikhosru Sorabji’s Letters to Philip Heseltine (Peter Warlock) - 30/03/2024 Yi-Chung Huang (piano)
Klavierhaus, New York, NY, USA
Broadcasts etc.
- 14/08/1984 Yonty Solomon (piano)
BBC Radio 3, London, UK [broadcast] - 11/04/1985 Yonty Solomon (piano)
BBC Radio 3, London, UK [repeat broadcast] - 26/07/1988 Yonty Solomon (piano) [extract]
Cleveland Lodge (home of Lady Susi Jeans), Dorking, UK [recording]
Organists’ Summer School: Illustrated Lecture - 14/08/1990 Marc-André Hamelin (piano)
WFUV Radio, New York NY, USA [broadcast of recording]
“Concert Grande” programme - 27/02/1991 Yonty Solomon (piano) [extract]
Lecture Room A, Music Faculty, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK [recording]
Oxford University Contemporary Music Group, Illustrated Lecture (Alistair Hinton) - 27/04/1991 Marc-André Hamelin (piano) [extract]
Radio Bremen, Bremen, Germany [broadcast of recording]
Hauptabteilung E-Musik, Klassik Diskothek, Raritäten der Klaviermusik - 11/09/1991 Marc-André Hamelin (piano)
North German Radio, Hannover, Germany [broadcast of recording] - 09/08/1992 Marc-André Hamelin (piano) [extract]
Radio Bremen, Bremen, Germany [broadcast of recording]
Hauptabteilung E-Musik, Redaktion Neue Musik - 14/08/1992 Marc-André Hamelin (piano)
BBC Radio 3, London, UK [broadcast of recording]
“A Sorabji Centenary” programme - 29/10/1992 Marc-André Hamelin (piano) [extract]
École de Musique, Salle Henri-Gagnon Université Laval, Québec, Canada [recording]
Sorabji centenary lecture (Marc-André Roberge) - 21/11/2005 Jonathan Powell (piano)
Radio France, France Musique, Paris, France [broadcast]
Montpellier Festival (broadcast of part of concert of 24/07/2005) - 25/02/2023 Marc-André Hamelin (piano) [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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