
	Where results make sense

Topic: John Ogdon

Related Topics

Method Man

Film

Alfred Molina

Dan Severn

Lisa Bonet

Anal canal

Sonic The Hedgehog (Genesis)

Calvinism

Kama Sutra

In the News (Thu 24 Dec 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	Welcome to the John Ogdon Foundation
		The John Ogdon Foundation, established in 1993 in memory of the legendary British pianist, is delighted to announce that Vladimir Ashkenasy has agreed to become Patron of the Foundation.
		John Ogdon was born in Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire, UK and studied at the Royal Manchester College of Music from 1945.
		Ogdon was equally at home with the classics and modern repertoire but he was perhaps most renowned for championing the music of 20th Century British composers.
	www.johnogdon.org.uk (323 words)

	John Ogdon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		John Ogdon had been, as a young man, one of the best two pianists in the world, along with Vladimir Ashkenazy, the brilliant Russian.
		John had an amazing memory, was renowned as the best sight-reader in the world and his recordings of works by Rachmaninoff, Busoni and Liszt are regarded by critics as definitive versions.
		John and Brenda appeared as guests on TV chat-show 'Wogan' performing a piano duet together...and then, completely unexpectedly, John died in August of broncho-pneumonia.
	www.marcharry.com /john_ogdon.htm (577 words)

	Articles - John Ogdon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		John Andrew Howard Ogdon (January 27, 1937 â“ August 1, 1989) was a pianist and composer born in Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom.
		Ogdon's health was never good, and his physical constitution was not strong enough to carry the burden of his enormous talent.
		John Ogdon was played by Alfred Molina, who won a Best Actor award from the Royal Television Society for his performance.
	www.alistic.com /articles/John_Ogdon (441 words)

	John Lant
		John works with osteopathic patients in this group practice from varied backgrounds, with any interest in psychosomatic factors in promoting improved health pathways and working towards a specialist interest in older patients.
		John Ogdon Lant established the practice after graduation from the British School of Osteopathy in 1971, following a two year period in an inner city Birmingham Clinic.
		John Ogdon Lant, The Founder of the partnership practice (established in 1971), pictured in the practice in 1975
	www.johnlant.co.uk /osteopathsandstaff.htm (650 words)

	On An Overgrown Path: The real 'Piano Man'
		Ogdon (right) was thrust into the limelight in 1962 when he was joint winner, with his friend Vladimir Ashkenazy, of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Competition.
		Ogdon became part of what is now known as the âManchester Schoolâ together with Harrison Birtwistle and Alexander Goehr.
		Somewhat surprisingly Ogdon admired the work of Cornish tonal composer George Lloyd whose piano concerto âScapegoatâ was dedicated to him, and which was described by Ogdon as âalmost a masterpieceâ.
	theovergrownpath.blogspot.com /2005/08/real-piano-man.html (1805 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Arts reviews \| CD: Rachmaninov: Etudes; Busoni, etc: John Ogdon
		John Ogdon, who died in 1989 at the age of 52, was arguably the finest British pianist of the second half of the 20th century.
		But it was the piano literature of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and especially the works of the two composers brought together on this disc, that brought the very best from him.
		When Ogdon auditioned for the National Youth Orchestra at the age of 18, he confounded the jury by launching into Busoni's huge Piano Concerto.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/reviews/story/0,11712,1014063,00.html (263 words)

	tempo170_asv
		Ogdon's pedalling alone - so vital to the rendering of Sorabji's multi-layered keyboard textures -- would demand a substantial essay.
		I am writing this the day after the utterly unexpected announcement of John Ogdon's death, and constrained by a distinct sense of loss, though I personally knew him only slightly.
		All I can say is, thank God that Altarus had the guts and gumption to record him in OC and the Busoni Fantasia Contrappuntistica in time, capturing him at his prime in works with which he will forever be associated, in recordings which will endure as signal events in the history of pianism.
	www.michaelhabermann.com /reviews/recordings/tempo170_asv.html (1161 words)

	HNH - Naxos Classical
		The chamber-music recordings were planned 15 years ago by an EMI producer, Simon Foster, who decided that Ogdon should play the piano, partnered on cello by Stephen Isserlis and on the violin by Nigel Kennedy, whose mother is a friend of Smith's.
		The aim was to release the disc for the 1988 centenary of Alkan's solitary death, crushed beneath a bookcase from which he had been trying to extract a volume of the Talmud.
		Ogdon missed his train to a rehearsal and Kennedy declared himself too busy to learn the music.
	www.naxos.com /newDesign/fopinions.files/bopinions.files/opinions29.htm (801 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Liszt - Concertos for Piano Nos 1 & 2; Mephisto Waltz & other piano works: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ogdon seems to me easily the equal of Cziffra and Richter in the concertos, although if you are very attentive indeed you may spot one passage that he had to modify on account of his Falstaffian girth and the limitations this placed on what he could play cross-handed.
		Ogdon gets slightly the better recording, but there is an infuriating amount of coughing, and at one point someone drops what sounds like a rotary kitchen whisk or a set of snail-tongs.
		Ogdon was so, erm, large that hand crossing was a virtual impossibility for him, so instead of playing semiquaver triplets he just plays it a chord.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005Y33B (1787 words)

	Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music
		On the basis of his recordings, John Ogdon's Liszt playing either could be tremendously exciting or stone-cold sober--or it could range from rough around the edges to winged and incandescent.
		Ogdon's fingers are similarly galvanized, although his ruminative amble through the Quasi adagio section lacks concentration and cohesive flow.
		Ogdon nonchalantly surmounts its difficulties but doesn't really throw himself into the score at full force in the manner of Sergio Fiorentino's more demonic, imaginative traversal (type Q1654 in Search Reviews for my comments).
	www.classicstoday.com /review.asp?ReviewNum=4935 (455 words)

	John Lant
		John Ogdon Lant started the practice after graduation from the British School of Osteopathy in 1971, following a two year period in an inner city Birmingham Clinic.
		John was appointed as Director of the Osteopathic Association of Great Britain (now the British Osteopathic Association) around 10 years ago and was appointed by the Privy Council to be a first member of the statutory Council of the General Osteopathic Council until 2001, (The 'GOsC').
		John is an advisory editor of 'The Osteopath', a monthly professional magazine published by the GOsC.
	www.johnlant.co.uk /people.htm (572 words)

	CHAN8399 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Waltzesand Preludes alike are handled with superb dexterity by John Ogdon, who also contributes, together with Alwyn himself, to the excellent sleeve-note.
		John Ogdon responds to this music of the 50s with understanding, imagination and the expected virtuosity, the advocate who completes our pleasure.
		John Ogdon relates the pleasure he had recording these 'magnificent pieces', and I can only add that it has also been a pleasure, a rewarding one, to hear and discover them.
	www.musicweb-international.com /alwyn/8399.htm (1688 words)

	the John Ogdon Prize
		The John Ogdon Foundation invites applications for the John Ogdon Prize of £5,000 (GBP), offering opportunities for pianists to undertake further study at postgraduate level at a United Kingdom college or academy of music of their choice.
		The panel of judges welcome applications for this prestigious prize first awarded in 1998, from those aged between 21 and 29, from all backgrounds and nationalities.
		During the Prize Year the successful candidate will be expected to perform one piece composed by John Ogdon.
	www.johnogdon.org.uk /prize.html (174 words)

	Barbirolli Society CDs Page 11 - CDSJB1019 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The outstanding feature of Sir John’s interpretation of the three great symphonies was his solicitude that the music’s line should not be lost at the expense of over-emotional indulgence.
		The music works to a tremendous climax as the lover’s guilt is discovered and the tempests of the Inferno return to sweep the fantasia to its powerful end, with mighty chords on the full orchestra balanced against the inexorable strokes of the gong.
		The photo in Michael Kennedy’s book of Sir John looking at a little travelling clock which he always carried is typical of his concern not to waste a minute of that valuable commodity we call time).
	www.st-and.demon.co.uk /JBSoc/page11/page11.html (1439 words)

	International Piano Archives at Maryland, UM Libraries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		John Ogdon was born in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire on January 27, 1937.
		In 1962, Ogdon became the first English pianist to win first prize (an honor he shared that year with Ashkenazy) at the Tchaikovsky International Competition in Moscow.
		In his later years, Ogdon was plagued with severe mental illness, although he continued to perform.
	www.lib.umd.edu /PAL/IPAM/ogdon.html (149 words)

	Chapman Family Burials
		John Ogdon Chapman was born in Franklin Co., Ohio, Nov. 14, 1816.
		John O. Chapman was born near Cape May, New Jersey.
		Judge Stanberry, of the Ohio Supreme Court, was the grandfather of Albert Stanberry Chapman.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/ia/county/jasper1/metz/cemetery/chapman (1752 words)

	Virtuoso (1988) (TV) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		More or less contemporaneous with Australian David Helfgott was Britain's John Ogdon, the greatest concert pianist of his generation in this country, and also a man who developed mental problems.
		In this case it was paranoid schizophrenia, and this film sensitively but unsparingly portrays his descent into virtual madness and the effect on his family and friends.
		This TV production marks Alfred Molina's first significant leading role, and he acquits himself very well as Ogdon, despite the (fortunately ignored) disqualification of being approximately a foot taller than the man he was portraying.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0096395 (308 words)

	Gramophone - Gramofile - The world's best classical music magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This welcome addition to the steady trickle of John Ogdon releases finds him in an area with which he is not immediately associated.
		The Beethoven comes off best (I was reminded of Ogdon playing Alkan in Variations 18 and 32 — the French composer must have known this work); the Schubert, with all the repeats and its overlong last movement, is dutiful and dull by comparison.
		The booklet is in the customary user-unfriendly house style of this series (why is it necessary to make CD booklets hard to read?) and makes the oft-repeated error that Ogdon made his London concerto début in 1958 playing the Busoni.
	www.gramophone.co.uk /gramofilereview.asp?mediaID=209732&reviewID=200212907 (329 words)

	Classical Net Review - Weinzweig/Coulthard - Canadian Portraits
		John Weinzweig (b.1913) was a key figure in putting Canada on the contemporary music map, in his own prolific and eclectic compositions, original and crafted with the enviable skill accrued in long experience in all fields of musical genres, a vital pedagogue, and a key figure in grappling with administrative disinterest.
		It was her impressionist Sketches from the Western Woods recorded by John Ogdon, and composed for him in 1970, which first caught my attention.
		It proves to be a welcome addition to the Ogdon discography; his playing of them displays the greatest refinement.
	www.classical.net /~music/recs/reviews/c/cmc08202a.html (556 words)

	Classical Net Review - Liszt - Piano Concertos
		The sad, tragic story of John Ogdon's life is a known tale but his interpretative prowess lives on in his magnificent musical interpretations of the most difficult music.
		I also enjoyed Ogdon's vivid and demonic interpretation of the Mephisto Waltz which is fairly brimful with outlandish and excruciating virtuosity.
		The recordings have come up pretty well for their age and this is another superb testament to John Ogdon, the superhero pianist who lives on in the greatness of music.
	www.classical.net /music/recs/reviews/b/bbc04089a.html (202 words)

	Passing Notes from the Hallé Magazine 1966/7 Season (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Sir John scored yet another triumph in Berlin with his reading of this Bruckner symphony, and the overwhelmingly enthusiastic ovation he is always accorded there, was so prolonged after the final performance (on 17th September) that the lights had to be put out to persuade the audience to leave!
		Sir John is going to Vienna to do some recordings for EMI with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, and in January 1967, he and Pierre Boulez take the BBC Symphony Orchestra to Russia.
		Next summer, Sir John will be visiting Israel to conduct a series of performances of the Verdi Requiem to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the foundation of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.
	www.st-and.demon.co.uk /JBSoc/journal/mar_96/pass.html (331 words)

	Altarus Records News Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		We are very proud to announce the long-awaited reissue of one of Ogdon's most important recordings, showcasing three of Busoni's finest solo piano works.
		Ogdon was quite simply a pianist sui generis, and there is very little point in even comparing him with anybody else.
		The pianist John Ogdon, who played and recorded the work in the 1980's, [this legendary recording has now been reissued - Altarus AIR-CD-9075] said that when he got to the end of the piece, he would have liked to start all over again.
	www.altarusrecords.com /News.html (2087 words)

	Gerard Schurmann - composition catalogue
		First movement premiered separately by John Ogdon and the RTE Symphony Orchestra / Proinssias O'Duin at public concerts in Dublin and Cork on 14, 15 January 1973.
		John Ogdon was the soloist with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra / Paavo Berglund.
		Commissioned by John Ogdon, and written for his series of "Virtuoso Piano Music".
	www.gerard-schurmann.com /works.htm (1353 words)

	CD Spotlight. Mr Bean and Elgar - A compilation of recordings from the 1970s, reviewed by Robert Anderson. '... a ...
		Hugh Maguire leads the Allegri Quartet and joins John Ogdon in a valiant attempt at redemption doomed to failure.
		The piano music has a charming trifle in the Serenade and a piece of rather ponderous virtuosity in the Concert Allegro that might well have made more sense if moulded ultimately towards a concerto.
		Ogdon is unashamedly grandiloquent where so bidden, and makes nonsense of any rumour that Elgar failed to understand the piano, even if he did not like it [listen -- CD2 track 8, 3:56-4:55].
	www.mvdaily.com /articles/2004/08/hughbean3.htm (340 words)

	Brenda Lucas Ogdon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		She has also performed with Andre Previn and the Houston Symphony, Neville Mariner and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, appeared twice at the ‘Proms’ and was honoured to be invited to play in Hong Kong and broadcast on RTHK in 1996 at the time of the hand-over of the colony to China.
		In 1992 she released a solo piano CD on Gamut Classics, of Johns’ compositions ‘the piano music of John Ogdon’.
		After Johns’ untimely death in 1989 she founded the John Ogdon foundation to assist young musicians.
	www.ellison-intl.freeserve.co.uk /brenda_lucas_odgon.htm (316 words)

	Matthias's Musical Reviews: Altarus
		This two CD set celebrating the life and work of British pianist John Ogdon clearly demonstrates the great impact he has had on the musical life of the United Kingdom in this last half century.
		The piano works bristle with Ogdon's ferocious energy, charm, and as Stevenson put it, "the fire of Prometheus and the stillness of dawn".
		The last selection is a work by Ogdon himself, and it clearly demonstrates why he will be remembered as one of the greatest pianists of our time.
	transform.to /~mattyrat/review/altarus.html (1610 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It is in five sections which correspond to the sections of the Mass which have been celebrated in Speyer, Annum per Annum for 900 years.
		Northwest Composers Association presents recital of piano music by John Ogdon, Constant Lambert and it's own members works.
		John Ogdon - Sonata No. 9 "Reminiscences of Contemporary Music" (Jan 1985)
	www.jonathanscott.co.uk /concerts.htm (853 words)

	Five Pieces for Piano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		First performance: December 1956, in Liverpool, by John Ogdon
		While they were still students in Manchester, Alexander Goehr, Davies and Harrison Birtwistle formed a new music ensemble with John Ogdon and others, and with it they gave concerts throughout the north of England.
		A work frequently included in their programmes was this set of Five Piano Pieces, Op.
	www.maxopus.com /works/fivepiec.htm (349 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)