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Artist: John Ogdon, Brenda Lucas, Neville Marriner
Title: The Argo Years
Year Of Release: 2025
Label: Eloquence
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 5:46:35
Total Size: 1.28 GB
Tracklist:
CD 1
MENDELSSOHN Concerto in E major for Two Pianos
Concerto in A minor for Piano and Strings
Brenda Lucas; Neville Marriner
MOZART Quintet for Piano and Winds
Derek Wickens; Robert Hill; Martin Gatt
Barry Tuckwell
CD 2
LISZT Concerto pathétique
SCHUMANN Andante and Variations, Op. 46*
SCHUMANN Six Studies in canonic form (transc. Debussy)*
Brenda Lucas
*FIRST RELEASE ON CD
CD 3
STRAVINSKY Capriccio
SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Concerto No. 1
John Wilbraham; Neville Marriner
CDs 4–5
MESSIAEN Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant-Jésus
CD 6
MESSIAEN Visions de l’Amen
Brenda Lucas
Scintillating pianism in music from Mozart to Messiaen: the complete Argo and Decca recordings of John Ogdon.
John Ogdon began to study at the Royal Northern College of Music in 1953, at the age of 16. Fellow students such as Alexander Goehr and Harrison Birtwistle were astonished by the speed of Ogdon’s mind, matched by his facility at the keyboard. He could perform and make sense of the most complex scores, old and new, as though they were child’s play. Further study elsewhere led to his triumph at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Competition in 1962, when he shared the gold medal with Vladimir Ashkenazy.
He began to record for Decca six years later, in December 1968, with the piano cycle by Olivier Messiaen, Vingt Regards sur l’enfant-Jesus, which renewed the Lisztian tradition of pianism for a new postwar age. Over the next three years he made four further albums for Decca, three of them with his wife Brenda Lucas. The diversity of repertoire testifies to the range of Ogdon’s musical talent and intellectual curiosity. More elevated but virtuosic Messiaen (the Visions de l’Amen) sits alongside freewheeling youthful concertos by Mendelssohn and Shostakovich.
Almost unknown at the time that Ogdon and Lucas recorded it for Argo in 1972, the Concerto pathétique is a two-piano version, made by Liszt in 1856, of a piece which had begun life as a Grand Solo de concert in 1849. Latterly taken up by the likes of Martha Argerich, the Concerto presents a heroic contrast on record with the restraint of the Six Canons and the poetic Andante and Variations by Schumann.
Ogdon’s career, both in public and on record, was brought to a sudden and tragic halt by a breakdown in 1973. Struggling with mental health for the rest of his life, he nonetheless returned to the studios briefly in June 1983, to contribute to a Decca set of Mozart’s complete music for solo horn, led by Barry Tuckwell. In 1784, Mozart wrote to his father Leopold that the Quintet for Piano and Winds was ‘the best thing I have yet written’; Ogdon, Tuckwell and their distinguished colleagues lean into its mellow warmth while relishing the interplay of texture in Decca’s demonstration-quality sound.
This ‘Original Covers’ Eloquence box of Ogdon’s Decca and Argo albums valuably restores the Mozart Quintet (and several other recordings) to the catalogue, accompanied by a new and illuminating essay on the pianist’s life and career by Mark Ainley
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01 I. Allegro vivace – Poco più allegro.flac
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02 II. Adagio non troppo.flac
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03 III. Finale. Allegro.flac
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04 I. Allegro.flac
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05 II. Adagio.flac
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06 III. Allegro ma non troppo.flac
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07 I. Largo – Allegro moderato.flac
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08 II. Larghetto.flac
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09 III. Rondo. Allegretto.flac
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01 I. Allegro.flac
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02 II. Andante sostenuto.flac
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03 III. Allegro.flac
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04 Andante & Variations, Op. 46.flac
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05 No. 1 in C Major. Nicht zu schnell.flac
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06 No. 2 in A Minor. Mit innigem Ausdruck.flac
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07 No. 3 in E Major. Andantino.flac
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08 No. 4 in A-Flat Major. Innig.flac
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09 No. 5 in B Minor. Nicht zu schnell.flac
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10 No. 6 in B Major. Adagio.flac
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01 I. Presto.flac
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02 II. Andante rapsodico.flac
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03 III. Allegro capriccioso ma tempo giusto.flac
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04 I. Allegro moderato.flac
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05 II. Lento.flac
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06 III. Moderato.flac
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07 IV. Allegro con brio.flac
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01 I. Amen de la création.flac
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02 II. Amen des étoiles, de la planète a l'anneau.flac
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03 III. Amen de l'agonie de Jésus.flac
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04 IV. Amen du désir.flac
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05 V. Amen des anges, des saints, du chant des oiseaux.flac
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06 VI. Amen du jugement.flac
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07 VII. Amen de la consommation.flac
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01 I. Regard du Père.flac
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02 II. Regard de l'Etoile.flac
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03 III. L'échange.flac
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04 IV. Regard de la Vierge.flac
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05 V. Regard du Fils sur le Fils.flac
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06 VI. Par Lui tout A été fait.flac
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07 VII. Regard de la Croix.flac
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08 VIII. Regard des hauteurs.flac
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09 IX. Regard du Temps.flac
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10 X. Regard de l’Esprit de joie.flac
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11 XI. Première communion de la Vierge.flac
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12 XII. La parole toute puissante.flac
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13 XIII. Noël.flac
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14 XIV. Regard des Anges.flac
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15 XV. Le baiser de l’Enfant.flac
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16 XVI. Regards des prophètes, des bergers et des Mages.flac
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17 XVII. Regard du silence.flac
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18 XVIII. Regard de l'Onction terrible.flac
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19 XIX. Je dors, mais mon cœur veille.flac
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20 XX. Regard de l'Eglise d'amour.flac
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