Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto No. 1. John Ogden / Barbirolli. New LP + sealed
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Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto No. 1. John Ogden / Barbirolli. New LP + sealed
From the new name in audiophile-quality LPsHi·Q RECORDS
Catalogue Number: HIQLP037
Composition: Piano Concerto No.1 in B flat minor, Op.23
Composer: Tchaikovsky
Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra
Conductor: Sir John Barbirolli
• CUT AT ABBEY ROAD STUDIOS FROM THE ORIGINAL ANALOGUE MASTER TAPES
• FEATURING THE ORIGINAL SLEEVE ARTWORK
• PRESSED ON 180g VINYL TO AUDIOPHILE STANDARDS
Side One
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No.1 in B flat minor, Op.23
1. (I) Allegro non troppo e molto maestoso – Allegro con spirito
2. (II) Andantino semplice – Prestissimo – Tempo I
Side Two
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No.1 in B flat minor, Op.23 (cont.)
1. (III) Allegro con fuoco
2. César Franck: Symphonic Variations
John Ogdon (piano)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Sir John Barbirolli
Recorded on 17 and 18 December 1962 at No.1 Studio, Abbey Road, London with legendary producer Victor Olof and Ronald Kinloch Anderson, and engineer Robert Gooch.
Cut at Abbey Road Studios from the original stereo analogue master tapes with the Neumann VMS82 lathe fed an analogue pre-cut signal from a specially adapted Studer A80 tape deck with additional 'advance' playback head, making the cut a totally analogue process.
Pressed on 180g vinyl to audiophile standards using the original EMI presses by The Vinyl Factory in Hayes, England.
The 1962 International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition, held in Moscow, had joint winners: Vladimir Ashkenazy (then still a Soviet citizen) and the UK's John Ogdon. Ogdon was signed by EMI and also enjoyed a brilliant career as a pianist noted for a phenomenal technique and deep musical sensibilities. He was also the composer of over 200 works, including 4 operas, orchestral and choral music, piano concertos and works for solo piano. In 1974 he suffered a nervous breakdown and displayed symptoms of bipolar disorder but was nursed back to health and performing by his wife and piano duet partner Brenda Lucas. He had become very active again recording and performing before being tragically struck down by pneumonia as a result of undiagnosed diabetes in August 1989.
In the original June 1963 review in the GRAMOPHONE, Thomas Hearns was torn between the two versions of the same work by Ashkenazy and Ogdon that were both released and reviewed together:
"It is in this [first] movement that Ogdon excels. His opening is grander (helped by a recording full in body); elsewhere he alternates exquisite poetry with glittering brilliance and some wonderfully skittish delicacy... the sheer richness of the Philharmonia's strings or the recording quality gives them the more glorious sound. If I'm really pushed to a recommendation... I think Ogdon has it." UK - FREE SHIPPING. EUROPE First CD = £3.99 then 99p each. First LP = £7.99 then £5.99p each. First 2LP = £9.99 then £8.99p each. First Box Set = £7.99 then £5.99p each REST OF WORLD First CD £5.25 then £1.99p each. First LP = £11.99 then £8.99p each. First 2LP = £13.99 then £10.99p each. First Box Set = £9.99 then £7.99p each. 603 (GS 6.9 (603))
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