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John Ogdon plays Busoni "Chamber Fantasy on Carmen"

Sonatina No.6, "Chamber Fantasy on Themes from Bizet's Carmen", composed in 1920, premiered by Busoni in London's Wigmore Hall on June 22, 1920. Critic and composer Kaikhosru Sorabji was in the audience and commented : "The vulgar commonplace Bizet tunes lose all their own identity, although not rhythmically distorted, and are for the time being 'controlled' by Busoni in a way that recalls the control of a psychic sensitive by some powerful discarnate entity.... It was amusing to feel the audience at the Wigmore a little horrified and frightened by something the likes of which they had certainly never known before..." ~~~ John Andrew Howard Ogdon (1937 - 1989) English pianist. Attended Manchester Grammar School, before studying at the Royal Manchester College of Music between 1953 and 1957. His tutor there was Claud Biggs. As a boy he had studied with Iso Elinson and after leaving college, he further studied with Gordon Green, Denis Matthews, Ilona Kabos, Dame Myra Hess and Egon Petri. He began his career while still a student, premiering works by Goehr and Maxwell Davis. Following an acclaimed series of concerts in the north of England, he made his sensational London debut as soloist in 1958, playing Ferruccio Busoni's rarely-heard Piano Concerto under the baton of Sir Henry Wood. He won first prize at the Budapest Liszt Competition in 1961, and consolidated his growing international reputation by winning another first prize at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1962, jointly with Vladimir Ashkenazy. John Ogdon played acclaimed concerts and recitals around the world, and recorded extensively. A player of great strength and protean technique, Ogdon was unafraid, and in fact preferred, to tackle the biggest scores, including F. Busoni's mammoth Piano Concerto, the Concerto for Solo Piano of Charles-Valentin Alkan, and the four-hour Opus Clavicembalisticum by Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, which he first played in a private recital at the age of 22. His repertoire was also massive: more than 80 composers were represented, with literally hundreds of scores. He was able to play most pieces at sight and had committed a huge range of pieces to memory. He enjoyed stretching his vast talents to their limit and attempted such monumental tasks as a complete recording of Rachmaninov's works for piano, which was released in 2001. He recorded all ten Scriabin sonatas early in his career. Ogdon also studied composition; left behind nearly 200 works in many forms, including a symphony, piano works, chamber music, a string quartet and a piano concerto. In 1973, Ogdon suffered a breakdown which, given the pace of his career, might not have been unexpected, but a more serious cause was at the heart of it. Like his father before him, Ogdon was diagnosed with schizophrenia and hospitalized for several years at the Maudley Hospital in London, where he was nevertheless reported to maintain a practice schedule of three hours a day on the hospital's Steinway. In 1980, he made a comeback in the concert hall, but critics found that his technique had suffered from the years of institutionalization and the medication he took to maintain his inner balance. In 1983, after emerging from hospital, he played at the opening of the Royal Concert Hall in Nottingham. He died of pneumonia, brought on by undiagnosed diabetes, at the age of 52. ~~~