John Ogdon - The Complete RCA Album Collection

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CD1
Carl Nielsen : Chaconne, Op. 32
Carl Nielsen: Suite, Op. 45
Carl Nielsen : Symphonic Suite, Op. 8
Carl Nielsen : Three Piano Pieces, Op. 59

CD2
Sergei Rachmaninoff : Sonata No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 28
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Sonata No. 2 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 36

CD3
Ludwig van Beethoven : Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-Flat Major, Op. 106 "Grose Sonate fur das Hammerklavier"

CD4
Peter Mennin : Piano Concerto
Richard Yardumian: Passacaglia, Recitative and Fugue for Piano and Orchestra

CD5
Charles Valentin Alkan: Concerto pour piano seul

CD6
Franz Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in C-Sharp Minor, S. 244
Franz Liszt: Etudes d’execution transcendante, S. 139: No. 4 – Mazeppa
Franz Liszt: Etudes d’execution transcendante, S. 139: No. 5 - Feux follets
Franz Liszt: Grandes etudes de Paganini, S. 141: No. 3 - La Campanelle
Franz Liszt: Annees de pelerinage, S. 160: No. 4 - Au bord defune Source
Franz Liszt: Annees de pelerinage, S. 161: No. 2 - Il Pensieroso
Franz Liszt: Annees de pelerinage, S. 162: No. 3 - Tarantella
Franz Lisz: Grand Galop Chromatique, S. 219
Franz Lisz: Mephisto Walzer, S. 514.

JOHN OGDON The Complete RCA Album Collection
Sony Classical releases a six-disc original-jacket collection encompassing John Ogdon’s complete recordings for the RCA Victor label to mark the 25th anniversary of this legendary British pianist’s untimely death in 1989. Four LPs appear here for the first time on CD, while a 1972 Liszt recital is released for the first time outside of Japan. The six discs are packaged and programmed in facsimile reproductions of the original LP releases in a clamshell box with booklet and remastered from the original tapes.
The repertoire reflects different facets of Ogdon’s large-scale pianism and unusual musical proclivities. From an early age he displayed a passion for Liszt that never abated. His penchant for surmounting the piano repertoire’s most challenging edifices brilliantly manifests itself in Beethoven’s mighty “Hammerklavier” Sonata, Rachmaninoff’s two piano sonatas and the first complete recording of Alkan’s Concerto for Piano Solo. A disc featuring piano music by Carl Nielsen drew attention to this composer’s often undervalued keyboard output, as well as Ogdon’s lifelong curiosity about important works outside the central repertoire. Ogdon’s recording of Peter Mennin’s Piano Concerto and the first of two recordings he made of Richard Yardumian’s Passacaglia, Recitative and Fugue for piano and orchestra also represent the pianist’s fervent advocacy for the music of his time.