Ogdon: Original Piano Music – Tyler Hay

   in Piano International (Jul, 2018)
John Ogdon’s place as one of the 20th-century’s most mercurial pianists is assured. As a composer of genius he is much less appreciated, especially the range of his output. There are, as Tyler Hay records in his admirable notes, around 200 compositions, including four operas, an oratorio, solo sonatas for piano, flute, violin and cello, piano miniatures and transcriptions, two piano concertos and a string quartet. This disc – in what I earnestly hope will be a series – picks four of Ogdon’s solo piano works, three of which are not otherwise available.

The one work that does have a rival version is the Sonata ‘Dedicated to my friend Stephen Bishop’ …