KSS28 Piano Sonata No. 2

Piece details

  • Written for: Piano
  • Date composed: 1920
  • Dedicatee: Ferruccio Busoni
  • Approximate duration (minutes): 51
  • Manuscript pages: 49
  • Manuscript location: Library of Congress
  • Comments: Published (F. and B. Goodwin Ltd, 1923).

Editions available from the Sorabji Archive

  • Copy of publication, A3L. 65 pages.
    Price: £17 (paper), £10 (pdf)
    Right-click to download high resolution sample page: PDF PNG

  • Typeset edition (William APM), A3L. 49+10 pages.
    Price: £19 (paper), £10 (pdf)
    Right-click to download high resolution sample page: PDF PNG

  • Copyist’s manuscript, A3L. 39 pages.
    Price: £15 (paper), £10 (pdf)
    Right-click to download high resolution sample page: PDF PNG

  • Manuscript, A3L. 49 pages.
    Price: £15 (paper), £10 (pdf)
    Right-click to download high resolution sample page: PDF PNG

Recordings

  • Tellef Johnson (piano),
    Altarus Records AIR-CD9049 (1999)
    Track 1 (50:53)

Performances

  • 13/01/1922 Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (piano)
    Kammersaal, Musikverein, Bösendorferstrasse, Vienna, Austria
  • 13/04/1924 Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (piano)
    6 Queen Square, Bloomsbury: Contemporary Music Centre, London, UK
    British Music Society (International Society for Contemporary Music)
  • 22/11/1998 Tellef Johnson (piano)
    Howard Hanson Hall, Eastman School of Music, Rochester NY, USA
  • 06/12/1998 Tellef Johnson (piano)
    Merkin Concert Hall, New York NY, USA
    Abraham Goodman House

Broadcasts etc.

  • 28/03/2005 Tellef Johnson (piano)
    Rádio e Televisão de Portugal, Só Antenna 2 , Lisbon, Portugal [broadcast of recording]
    Música – Tons da Noite: Depois da Uma na Dois (After One at Two)
  • 30/05/2019 Tellef Johnson (piano) [extract]
    ORF Austrian Radio, Vienna, Austria [broadcast of recording]
    Faszinosum Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji: Opus - das Musikkolloquium