Opus Clavicembalisticum

Album by Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji & Geoffrey Douglas Madge

Opus Clavicembalisticum is a solo piano composition by British-Parsi composer Kaikhosru Sorabji, composed 1929–30. The work is one of the longest and most technically demanding in the piano repertoire, characterised by a vast formal design, dense counterpoint, extended durations and a fusion of late‑Romantic harmonic language with idiosyncratic modernist textures, and it occupies a notable place in Sorabji's output and 20th‑century piano literature.

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Opus Clavicembalisticum: I. Introito
    3:17
  2. 2.
    Opus Clavicembalisticum: II. Preludio-Corale (Nexus)
    13:33
  3. 3.
    Opus Clavicembalisticum: III. Fuga I quatuor vocibus
    12:05
  4. 4.
    Opus Clavicembalisticum: IV. Fantasia
    5:34
  5. 5.
    Opus Clavicembalisticum: V. Fuga II duplex
    16:04

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Opus Clavicembalisticum: Pars Alter VI. Interludium primum (Thema cum XLIX variationibus)
    45:05
  2. 3.
    Opus Clavicembalisticum: VII. Cadenza I
    5:12

Disc 3

  1. 3.
    Opus Clavicembalisticum: VIII. Fuga tertia triplex. Dux primus
    10:22
  2. 4.
    Opus Clavicembalisticum: VIII. Dux alter
    11:00
  3. 5.
    Opus Clavicembalisticum: VIII. Dux tertius
    12:32

Disc 4

  1. 4.
    Opus Clavicembalisticum: Pars Tertia. IX. Interludium alterum. Toccata
    5:50
  2. 5.
    Opus Clavicembalisticum: IX. Adagio
    16:25
  3. 6.
    Opus Clavicembalisticum: IX. Passacaglia cum LXXXI variationibus
    35:22
  4. 7.
    Opus Clavicembalisticum: X. Cadenza II
    3:28

Disc 5

  1. 5.
    Opus Clavicembalisticum: XI. Fuga IV quadruplex. Dux primus
    8:33
  2. 6.
    Opus Clavicembalisticum: XI. Dux alter
    7:31
  3. 7.
    Opus Clavicembalisticum: XI. Dux tertius
    7:23
  4. 8.
    Opus Clavicembalisticum: XI. Dux quartus
    9:56
  5. 9.
    Opus Clavicembalisticum: XII. Coda-Stretta
    7:33
  6. 10.
    [applause]
    2:21

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