Sorabji
Sorabji: Piano Sonata No. 5 (excerpt) Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (1892 - 1988) was a 20th-century English composer. His compositions, of which he composed well over 100, have run times varying from a few minutes to several hours . His solo piano works are vast, and over the past couple of weeks, I've been listening to his Toccata Terza (Third Piano Sonata). It's rather lengthy for a piano sonata; the recording fills two CDs. I've kept the CDs on repeat, and spent many hours absorbing this amazing work. I find Sorabjii's music to be dense, beautiful, and complex, and I am certainly a big fan of his work. His piano sonatas take on a rather orchestral level of scale and complexity. The larger-scale solo piano works are highly contrapuntal. His work is polyrhythmic, and I hear elements of both tonality and atonality. Sorabji: Piano Variations nos. 17/18 (autograph score) Either oddly, or not surprisingly, f...
