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About the artist John Ogdon

John Andrew Howard Ogdon was born on 27 January 1937 at Mansfield Woodhouse in Nottinghamshire. He studied with the Russian Iso Elinson at the Royal Manchester College from 1945, with the quintessentially English Claud Biggs, Gordon Green and Denis Matthews, the Dutch-German Egon Petri and the Hungarian Ilona Kabos. John Ogdon was awarded joint first prize at the 1962 International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. It was an extraordinary enough achievement to prompt front-page headlines even in his home country, and it propelled Ogdon and his fellow gold medallist, Vladimir Ashkenazy, into stellar (if very different) careers. His career was abruptly interrupted in the autumn of 1973, when he suffered a breakdown, a victim of the schizophrenia that had also afflicted his father. After a period of recuperation, he was well enough to give lessons and masterclasses as professor of piano at Indiana University from 1975 to 1980. While Ogdon engaged in some limited concert touring during his time in the USA, it was not until the early 1980s that he ventured a full return to the concert platform. If, unsurprisingly, he was not always able consistently to recapture the glory of the buccaneering days before his tragic illness, there were nonetheless numerous occasions when one of the greatest pianists Britain has ever produced could be heard once more in his true magnificence.

CDs and DVDs featuring the artist John Ogdon

CATALOGUE NR: 3653322  (barcode: 0094636533223)
RECORD LABEL: EMI Gemini
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 8.45
RELEASE DATE: 02-Oct-2006

COMPOSER: Alexander Scriabin
TRACKS: Etude in C Sharp minor op.2 No.1. Piano Sonata No.1 in F minor op.6. Piano Sonata No.2 in G sharp minor op.19. Piano Sonata No.3 in F sharp minor op.23. Piano Sonata No.4 in F sharp major op.30. 4 Preludes pour piano op.48. Piano Sonata No.5 in F sharp major op.53. Deux Morceaux op.57. Feuillet D'Album op.58. Piano Sonata No.6 in G major op.62. 2 Poemes op.63. Piano Sonata No.7 in F sharp major op.64. Piano Sonata No.8 in A major op.66. 2 Preludes op.67. Piano Sonata No.9 in F major op.68. Piano Sonata No.10 in C major op.70. Vers La Flamme op.72. 5 Preludes op.74.
ARTISTS: John Ogdon      

- Penguin Guide 3 star 'Ogdon is nothing if not persuasive, and the only reservation one need feel about his playing is an occasional tendency to be less than scrupulous in observing dynamic indications and a certain lack of finish'

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CATALOGUE NR: AIRCD9063  (barcode: 0076958706325)
RECORD LABEL: Altarus
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 26.54

COMPOSER: Alistair Hinton  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: Im Memoriam John Ogdon
TRACKS: Pansophiae for John Ogdon (Alistair Hinton). Prelude and Fugue on a theme of Liszt (Ronald Stevenson). Fantasia Contrappuntistica (Ferruccio Busoni arr. Middelschulte). Fantasia nach J S Bach (Ferruccio Busoni). All'Italia! (Ferruccio Busoni). Sonatina No.1 (Ronald Stevenson). Dance Suite (John Ogdon).
ARTISTS: John Ogdon   Kevin Bowyer    

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CATALOGUE NR: SRCD251  (barcode: 5020926025128)
RECORD LABEL: Lyrita
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 12.95
RELEASE DATE: 08-Jan-2007

COMPOSER: Cyril Scott
TRACKS: Piano Concerto No.1 in C. Early One Morning - Poem for Piano & Orchestra. Piano Concerto No.2.
ORCHESTRA: London Philharmonic
CONDUCTOR: Bernard Herrmann
ARTISTS: John Ogdon      

- Sep-2007 4 star BBC Music Mag. - Penguin Guide 4 star 'the composer is splendidly served by by his performers here, who create a feeling of spontaneity even when the music itself eddies gently with comparatively little forward movement'

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CATALOGUE NR: 4666642  (barcode: 0028946666425)
RECORD LABEL: Australian Eloquence
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 7.50

COMPOSER: Dmitri Shostakovich
TRACKS: Symphony No.5 in D minor op.47. Concerto for piano trumpet and strings No.1 op.35.
ORCHESTRA: L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and Academy of St Martin in the Fields
CONDUCTOR: Istvan Kertesz and Neville Marriner
ARTISTS: John Ogdon      

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CATALOGUE NR: 4768460  (barcode: 0028947684602)
RECORD LABEL: Australian Eloquence
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 7.50
RELEASE DATE: 14-Aug-2006

COMPOSER: Felix Mendelssohn
TRACKS: Symphony for Strings No.9 in C minor. Symphony for Strings No.10 in B minor. Symphony for Strings No.12 in G minor. Concerto for Piano & Strings in A minor.
ORCHESTRA: Academy of St Martin in the Fields
CONDUCTOR: Neville Marriner
ARTISTS: John Ogdon      

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CATALOGUE NR: SBT1288  (barcode: 0749677128821)
RECORD LABEL: Testament
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 11.29
RELEASE DATE: 18-Nov-2002

COMPOSER: Felix Mendelssohn  (other composers in brackets after works)
TRACKS: Piano Concerto No.1. Piano Concerto No.2. Rondo Brillante in E flat op.29 (Mendelssohn). The Holy Boy / April (Ireland). Lotus Land op.47 No.1. Danse negre op.58 No.5 (Scott).
ORCHESTRA: London Symphony Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Aldo Ceccato
ARTISTS: John Ogdon      

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CATALOGUE NR: 4563242  (barcode: 5099945632426)
RECORD LABEL: EMI Gemini
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 8.45
RELEASE DATE: 08-Mar-2010

COMPOSER: Ferruccio Busoni
TRACKS: Piano Concerto op.39. Berceuse elegiaque op.42. Turandot Suite op.41. 2 Studies from 'Doktor Faust' op.51 : Sarabande / Cortege. Sonatina No.3 'ad usum infantis'. Nine Variations on Chopin Prelude in C minor op.22. Turandots Frauengemach - Intermezzo No.4 of 'Elegies'. Sonatina No.6 Chamber fantasy on Bizet's 'Carmen'.
CONDUCTOR: Riccardo Muti and Frederick Prausnitz
ARTISTS: John Ogdon   Thomas Ades    

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CATALOGUE NR: BBCL40892  (barcode: 0684911408928)
RECORD LABEL: BBC Legends
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 10.75
RELEASE DATE: 11-Feb-2002

COMPOSER: Franz Liszt
TRACKS: Piano Concerto No.1. Piano Concerto No.2. Mephisto Waltz. Fantasy on La Clochette. Transcendental Study No.11.
ORCHESTRA: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and BBC Symphony Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Colin Davis
ARTISTS: John Ogdon      

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: recorded 1967-1971

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CATALOGUE NR: SBT1133  (barcode: 0749677113322)
RECORD LABEL: Testament
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 11.29

COMPOSER: Franz Liszt
TITLE: A Liszt Recital
TRACKS: Annees de pelerinage No.7. Liebestraume No.1. Trauer-Vorspiel & Marsch. Reminiscences de Simon Boccanegra. Two Concert Studies. Etude d'execution transcendante No.2. Etude d'execution transcendante No.3. Harmonies poetiques et religieuses No.7. Mephisto Waltz No.1.
ARTISTS: John Ogdon      

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CATALOGUE NR: 0271802  (barcode: 5099902718026)
RECORD LABEL: EMI
FORMAT: 10 CD Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 25.00
RELEASE DATE: 13-Jun-2011

COMPOSER: Franz Liszt
TITLE: The Piano Collection
TRACKS: ALDO CICCOLINI - Annees de pelerinage annee 1 : Suisse S160 : La chapelle de Guillaume Tell / Au lac de Wallenstadt / Pastorale / Au bord d'une source / Orage / Vallee d'Obermann / Eglogue / Le mal du pays / Les cloches de Geneve. Annees de pelerinage annee 2: Italie S161 : Sposalizio / Il penseroso / Canzonetta del Salvatore Rosa / Sonetto 47 del Petrarca / Sonetto 104 del Petrarca / Sonetto 123 del Petrarca / Apres une lecture du Dante fantasia quasi sonatai. Venezia e Napoli - revised version S162 : Gondoliera / Canzone / Tarantella. Annees de pelerinage annee 3 S163 : Angelus! / Aux cypres de la Villa d'Este / Les jeux d'eau a la Villa d'Este / Sunt lachrymae rerum / Marche funebre / Sursum corda. Harmonies poetiques et religieuses S173 : Invocations / Ave Maria / Benediction de Dieu dans la solitude / Pensees Des Morts / Pater Noster / Hymne de l'enfant a son reveil / Funerailles / Miserere d'apres Palestrina / Andante lagrimoso / Cantique d'amour. Liebestraume S541 : No.1 in A flat Hohe Liebe / No.2 in E Gestorben war ich / No.3 in A flat O lieb so lang du lieben kannst. Consolations S172. Legendes S175 : St Francis d'Assise / St Francis de Paule walking on the water. Ballade No.1 in D flat S170. Ballade No.2 in B minor S171. GEORGES CZIFFRA - 19 Hungarian Rhapsodies S244. 2 Polonaises S223 : Polonaise No.1 in C minor / Polonaise No.2 in E major. Valse impromptu S213. Grand Galop Chromatique S219. VLADIMIR OVCHINIKOV - 12 Etudes d'execution transcendante S139. MIKHAIL RUDY - 2 Etudes de concert : No.1 Murmures de la foret / No.2 Ronde des lutins. Valse oubliee No.1. Valse oubliee No.2. ANDRE WATTS - 6 Grand Etudes After Paganini S141. Nuages gris S199. Schlaflos Frage and Antwort S203. Bagatelle sans tonalite S216a. LEIF OVE ANDSNES - Mephisto Waltz No.1 S514. Mephisto Waltz No.2 S111. Mephisto Waltz No.4 S696. Quatrieme valse oubliee S215 No.4. MATHIEU PAPADIAMANDIS - Variations on a theme by Bach 'Weinen Klagen Sorgen Zagen' S180 - Prelude. WAYNE MARSHALL - Die Hirten an der Krippe - In dulci jubilo S186 No.3. Adeste fideles S186 No.4. JOHN OGDON - Piano Sonata in B minor S178. 19 Hungarian Rhapsodies S244 : No.15 in A minor Rakoczy March. Valse oubliee No.1 S215 No.1. Csardas macabre S224. En reve - Nocturne S207. JOSE ABEL GONZALEZ - Etudes de concert : Il lamento. JEANNE-MARIE DARRE - Etudes de concert : La Leggierezza. Etudes de concert : Un sospiro. STEPHEN HOUGH - Rhapsodie espagnole S254. Ave Maria S182. Recueillement S204. La lugubre gondola S200 : First version 1882 / Second version 1885. LIONEL ROGG - Fantaisie et Fugue sur le choral 'Ad nos ad salutarem undam' S259 : Fantaisie / Fugue. Prelude et Fugue sur le nom de Bach S260 : Fantaisie / Fugue. Ave Maria - Arcadelt : Andantino.
ARTISTS: Aldo Ciccolini   Georges Cziffra   Mikhail Rudy   John Ogdon

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CATALOGUE NR: BBCL41422  (barcode: 0684911414226)
RECORD LABEL: BBC Legends
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 10.75
RELEASE DATE: 29-Mar-2004

COMPOSER: Franz Schubert  (other composers in brackets after works)
TRACKS: Piano Sonata in C minor D958 (Schubert). Piano Concerto No.5 in E flat op.73 Emperor (Beethoven). 32 Variations on a Theme in C minor Wo080 (Beethoven)
ORCHESTRA: BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Jascha Horenstein
ARTISTS: John Ogdon      

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: recorded 23-Jan-1972 / 21-Jan-1969 - Jul-2004 4 star BBC Music Mag.

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CATALOGUE NR: 4782759  (barcode: 0028947827597)
RECORD LABEL: Decca
FORMAT: 10 CD Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 31.99
RELEASE DATE: 28-Mar-2011

COMPOSER: Igor Stravinsky  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: Marriner & The Academy - 20th Century Classics
TRACKS: Pulcinella - Concert Suite. Apollon musagete - 1947 version (Metamorphosen for 23 Solo Strings (Richard Strauss). Siegfried Idyll (Richard Wagner). Adagio for clarinet and strings in D flat (Heinrich Baermann). Music for Strings Percussion and Celesta Sz106 (Bela Bartok). Divertimento for Strings Sz113 (Bartok). Capriccio for Piano & Orchestra (Stravinsky). Concerto for piano trumpet & strings (Shostakovich). Sonata for Strings arr. from String Quartet No.2 (William Walton). Visions fugitives op.22 (Prokofiev arr. Rudolph Barshai). Symphony in C (Bizet). Symphony No.1 in D op.25 Classical (Prokofiev). Verklarte Nacht op.4 (Schonberg). Funf Stucke (Paul Hindemith). 5 Movements for String Quartet op.5 (Anton Webern arr. Webern for orchestra). Adagio for Strings op.11 (Samuel Barber). Symphony No.3 The Camp Meeting (Charles Ives). Quiet City for Cor Anglais Trumpet and Strings (Aaron Copland). Hymn and Fuguing Tune No.10 for oboe & strings (Henry Cowell). A Rumor (Paul Creston). A Shropshire Lad - Rhapsody. The Banks of Green Willow. Two English Idylls (George Butterworth). Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge op.10 (Benjamin Britten). Holberg Suite op.40. Two Elegiac Melodies op.34 : Heart-Wounds / The Last Spring (Edvard Grieg). Valse triste op.44 (Jean Sibelius). Little Suite op.1 (Carl Nielsen). Serenade op.11 (Dag Wiren). Rakastava op.14 : The Lover / The Path of his Beloved / Good evening!… Farewell! (Jean Sibelius).
ORCHESTRA: Academy of St Martin in the Fields
CONDUCTOR: Neville Marriner
ARTISTS: Jack Brymer   John Ogdon   John Wilbraham  

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: recorded 1967-1977

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CATALOGUE NR: AIRCD9070
RECORD LABEL: Altarus
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 26.54
RELEASE DATE: 17-Oct-2005

COMPOSER: Johann Sebastian Bach  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: Busoni Transcriptions for Piano
TRACKS: Toccata in C Major. Organ Chorale Preludes : Prelude No.3 / Prelude No.5 / Prelude No.7a / Prelude No.7b / Prelude No.9. St Anne Prelude and Fugue. Toccata and Fugue in D minor. Chaconne (JS Bach). Fantasia contrappuntistica (Ferruccio Busoni).
ARTISTS: John Ogdon      

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CATALOGUE NR: BBCL41832  (barcode: 0684911418323)
RECORD LABEL: BBC Legends
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 10.75
RELEASE DATE: 29-May-2006

COMPOSER: Johannes Brahms  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: Ogdon
TRACKS: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No.2 in B flat op.83 (Brahms). Piano Sonata No.32 in C minor op.111 (Beethoven).
ORCHESTRA: Halle Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: John Barbirolli
ARTISTS: John Ogdon      

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: recorded 16-Sep-1966 and 5-Nov-1963

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CATALOGUE NR: AIRCD9075
RECORD LABEL: Altarus
FORMAT: 5 CD Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 51.01

COMPOSER: Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji
TITLE: Opus Clavicembalisticum
ARTISTS: John Ogdon      

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CATALOGUE NR: 5857612  (barcode: 0724358576122)
RECORD LABEL: EMI Gemini
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 8.45
RELEASE DATE: 05-Apr-2004

COMPOSER: Ludwig van Beethoven
TITLE: Variations for Piano
TRACKS: 7 Variations on God Save the King. 24 Variations on Venni amore. 13 Variations on Es war einmal ein alter Mann. 12 Variations on a la Vigano. 6 Variations on Nel cor piu non mi sento. 5 Variations on Rule, Britannia. 8 Variations on Une fievre brulante. 10 Variations on La stessa la stessissima. 7 Variations on Kind willst du ruhig schlafen? 6 Easy Variations on an original theme WoO77. 32 Variations in C minor on an original theme WoO80. 12 Variations on a Russian dance from Das Waldmadchen. 6 Variations on a Turkish March.
ARTISTS: John Ogdon   Emil Gilels    

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: CD1 Ogden and CD2 Gilels

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CATALOGUE NR: 6784292  (barcode: 5099967842926)
RECORD LABEL: EMI 20th Century Classics
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 8.45
RELEASE DATE: 09-Jan-2012

COMPOSER: Michael Tippett
TITLE: 20th Century Classics: Tippett
TRACKS: Yehudi Menuhin / Robert Masters / Derek Simpson / Bath Festival Orchestra / Michael Tippett - Fantasia concertante a theme of Corelli. Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra / Rudolf Barshai - Ritual Dances from A Midsummer Marriage. John Ogdon / Philharmonia Orchestra / Colin Davis - Piano Concerto. Moscow Chamber Orchestra / Bath Festival Orchestra / Rudolf Barshai - Concerto for double string orchestra. Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields / Neville Marriner - Divertimento on Sellinger's Round for chamber orchestra. Little Music. Nigel Robson / Scottish Chamber Orchestra / Michael Tippett - Songs of Dov.
ORCHESTRA: Bath Festival Orchestra and Moscow Chamber Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Michael Tippett and Rudolf Barshai
ARTISTS: Yehudi Menuhin   Rachel Masters   John Ogdon  

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CATALOGUE NR: 4780353  (barcode: 0028947803539)
RECORD LABEL: Decca
FORMAT: 7 CD Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 36.79
RELEASE DATE: 10-Nov-2008

COMPOSER: Olivier Messiaen
TITLE: Piano & Organ Music
TRACKS: Oiseaux exotiques. Catalogue d'oiseaux. Canteyodjaya. Quatre Etudes de rythme. Vingt regards sur l'Enfant-Jesus. O sacrum convivium!. La Nativite du Seigneur. L'Ascension. Diptyque. Apparition de l'Eglise eternelle. Messe de la Pentecote. Verset pour la fete de la Dedicace. Le Banquet celeste. Les Corps glorieux - Sept visions breves de la Vie des Ressuscites.
ORCHESTRA: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Riccardo Chailly
ARTISTS: John Ogdon   Simon Preston   Thomas Trotter   Choir of Kings College Cambridge

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CATALOGUE NR: EXP0013  (barcode: 0878914000139)
RECORD LABEL: Explore Records
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 5.99
RELEASE DATE: 25-Sep-2006

COMPOSER: Olivier Messiaen
TITLE: Visions de l'Amen
TRACKS: Amen de la Creation. Amen des etoiles de la planete a l'anneau. Amen de l'Agonie de Jesus. Amen du Desir. Amen des Anges des Saints du chant des oiseaux. Amen du Jugement. Amen de la Consommation.
ARTISTS: John Ogdon   Brenda Lucas    

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: recorded by Decca in Studio No.3 West Hampstead London 29-31-Dec-1970 - Penguin Guide 2 star

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CATALOGUE NR: 6783882  (barcode: 5099967838820)
RECORD LABEL: EMI 20th Century Classics
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 8.45
RELEASE DATE: 09-Jan-2012

COMPOSER: Paul Dukas
TITLE: 20th Century Classics: Dukas
TRACKS: Orchestre National de l'ORTF / Jean Martinon - Symphony in C. Ariane et Barbe-bleu : Introduction a l'acte 3. Orchestre du Theatre National de l'Opera de Paris / Pierre Dervaux - La Peri. John Ogdon - Piano Sonata in E flat Minor. Philippe Jaroussky / Jerome Ducros - Sonnet - Amours Premier Livre CLXIX. Michael Thompson / Philip Fowke - Villanelle. Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse / Michel Plasson - L'Apprenti sorcier ' - The Sorcerer's Apprentice'.
ORCHESTRA: Orchestre National de L'ORTF and Toulouse Capital Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Jean Martinon and Michel Plasson
ARTISTS: Philippe Jaroussky   Michael Thompson   John Ogdon   Philip Fowke

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