Sorabji: Piano Sonata No. 1

这张专辑没有分轨，就是一首完整的，全场22分钟左右的钢琴奏鸣曲。 布索尼（Busoni）对此曲的评价： Mr Kaikhusru Sorabji had the kindness to play for me at the piano a Sonata he composed. Judging from a first impression - quite surprisin at that - Mr Sorabji's talaent finds itself at home amid a kind of profusely ornamental harmonic complexity which seems to come easily and naturally to him. The freedom inherent to his style still appears at this time disorganised and exuberant. His music, though consciously written, is unconscious of its own irregular features, especially as regards proportions; in disregarding tradition it crosses a threshold which is no longer European, producing a quasi`exotic kind of vegetation (not in the sense of our 'charming' Oriental dances. however!). Overall: a totally new kind of young talent that gives one pause and makes one feel hopeful... Ferrucio Busoni London, November 1919 哈姆林本人对此曲的评价： Although Sorabji's Sonata No.1 is not chronologically the first - an earlier one remains unpublished - it nonetheless stands as a magnificent portal to the later sonatas and the myriad other works to come. It is a major statement from a stunningly (and precociously) original personality, a quasi-free-for-all celebration of the hedonism that is true, total compositional freedom. In spite of its jagged dynamic structure, I personally perceive the work as a coherent, unidirectional passage of musical thetoric. The challenge to the interpreter is to go beyond the Sonata's superficial appearance of an unstructured series of climaxes, not by smoothing out dynamic extremes at either end of thespectrum, but by judiciously weighing the relative structural importance and relevance of each of the various peaks encountered throughout the work. A considerable task, in view of the huge range of harmonic adjectives employed and the profusion of artfully chiselled 2irregularities in all parameters that the comoser crafted into the 22-minute span of the piecce, To me, the Sonata is a thrilling magic-carpet ride, hurtling from splendour to splendour within a virtually unprecedented breadth of tonal and instrumental audacity. It should prove an exhilarating and rejuvenating aural experience for anyone still caring to attune themselves to the joys of youthful excess. Marc-André Hamelin 1989 Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji官网此曲的相关资料 http://www.sorabji-archive.co.uk/compositions/piece.php?pieceid=20