KSS69 Concerto per suonare da me solo

Piece details

  • Written for: Piano
  • Date composed: 1946
  • Dedicatee: Norman Peterkin
  • Approximate duration (minutes): 50
  • Manuscript pages: 70
  • Manuscript location: Paul Sacher Foundation, Basel
  • Comments:
    I Incomincia l’orchestra arrogante e pomposa
    II
    III Scherzo diabolico

Editions available from the Sorabji Archive

  • Typeset edition (Alex Abercrombie, Jonathan Powell, Francois Fabre, Richard Younger), A3L. 72 pages.
    Price: £23 (paper), £15 (pdf)
    Right-click to download high resolution sample page: PDF PNG

  • Manuscript, A3L. 70 pages.
    Price: £20 (paper), £10 (pdf)
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Recordings

  • Jonathan Powell (piano),
    Altarus Records AIR-CD-9081 (2007)
    Track 1-3 (66:35)
    Track 1 I Brioso focosamente (22:06)
    Track 2 II [adagio] (21:34)
    Track 3 III Scherzo diabolico (22:55)

Performances

  • 27/06/1978 Yonty Solomon (piano)
    Wigmore Hall, London, UK
  • 25/07/1978 Yonty Solomon (piano)
    The Music School, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
  • 30/09/1979 Yonty Solomon (piano)
    Salone Villa Olmo, Como, Italy
    13th Autonno Musicale
  • 02/05/2002 Jonathan Powell (piano)
    Great Hall, King’s College, London University, London, UK
  • 24/07/2005 Jonathan Powell (piano)
    Salle Pasteur, Centre Corum, Montpellier, France
    Montpellier Festival

Broadcasts etc.

  • 13/12/1970 Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (piano)
    WNCN (radio), New York NY, USA [broadcast of recording]
  • 12/12/1971 Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (piano)
    WNCN (radio), New York NY, USA [repeat broadcast of recording]
  • 10/12/1972 Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (piano)
    WNCN (radio), New York NY, USA [repeat broadcast of recording]
  • 08/11/1973 Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (piano)
    KPFA (radio), Berkeley CA, USA [repeat broadcast of recording]
  • 19/02/1975 Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (piano)
    WMUK (radio), Kalamazoo MI, USA [repeat broadcast of recording]
  • 19/06/1976 Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (piano)
    Minnesota Public Radio (broadcast over KSJR/KSJN/KCCM/WSCD/KRSW/KLSE), Collegeville MN, USA [repeat broadcast of recording]
  • 21/11/2005 Jonathan Powell (piano)
    Radio France, France Musique, Paris, France [broadcast]
    Montpellier Festival (broadcast of part of concert of 24/07/2005)