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Of the 18 works selected for EMI’s retrospective to mark what would have been the late pianist’s 70th birthday (he died in 1989 at 52),
These performances count among the finest in John Ogdon’s large yet uneven discography. No matter how thick or unwieldy the orchestrally conceived piano writing gets
Collectors in the early 1970s could count on John Ogdon’s Mendelssohn concertos as plausible supplements to Rudolf Serkin’s fiery reference versions–his fingers still commanded all
The choice item here is John Barbirolli’s 1969 Francesca da Rimini, a reading infused with passion in the tempestuous outer sections and tenderness in the
Although caught in concert in the BBC studios in 1966 (concerto) and 1963 (sonata), these archives are in mono, a not very good mono in
Listeners familiar with Leopold Stokowski’s work will know to expect a highly idiosyncratic rendition of Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4. He doesn’t disappoint, as this performance
On the basis of his recordings, John Ogdon’s Liszt playing either could be tremendously exciting or stone-cold sober–or it could range from rough around the
