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Background: John Ogdon burst into public consciousness after he was awarded joint first prize at the 1962 International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. It was an achievement that led to front-page headlines and it propelled Ogdon and his fellow gold medallist, Vladimir Ashkenazy, into stellar careers. In 1988, the year before his untimely death, legendary pianist John Ogdon make these recordings of Rachmaninov with the esteemed producer John Culverhouse. The tapes were acquired by his son after John’s death and have sat on his shelf unheard ever since awaiting editing and release to a wider public. Ogdon was, by any normal standards, an unusual keyboard phenomenon. The remarkable catholicity of his repertoire went hand in hand with a staggering technique and a legendary sight-reading ability. In 1973 Ogdon suffered a breakdown. He was a victim of the schizophrenia that had also afflicted his father and, confined to a psychiatric hospital, his career seemed to have ended. He was eventually well enough to give masterclasses but it was not until the early 1980s that he ventured a comeback to the concert platform. During this comeback there were plenty of occasions when adrenalin took over from lithium, the mist lifted, and one of the greatest pianists Britain has ever produced could be heard once more in his true magnificence. John Ogdon died quite suddenly from broncho-pneumonia on 1 August 1989 at the age of 52. |
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COMPOSER: Sergei Rachmaninov |
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