Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (1892-1988) (I heard his obit on the radio back in college...) -
Le Jardin Parfumé (1923), nocturne for piano.
(Now: Nikolai Myaskovsky -
Symphony no. 3 in A minor (1914, dedicated to B.W. Asafiev), concluding funeral march (last 8 or so minutes of the
Deciso e sdegnoso finale. I've known this work since - well, the site links to a page I wrote back around 1992?- http://www.kith.org/jimmosk/schissel.html - I've known this work since around 1991 or so, from LPs recorded in the 1960s, Yevgeny Svetlanov conducting a Soviet symphony orchestra. And I think I listened to the opening and then to the ending... and those last few minutes, an unquiet...and _in_quiet (restless) - funeral march, slow, pained and painful tread at the end of an active movement...
(I heard the whole 45-minute piece many times after buying the CD-transferred recording on a trip to London in 1993, and then in 1991 once or twice at least I think though the LP was very "skippy" so that may have been difficult, but just the march by itself was effective without knowing much of what had come before it)-
I seem to recall the march brought me up fast.
At any rate.. summarized, sound-bite :) (And having spent so much time writing this- I have to go get ready for work!)- it's intense stuff. The whole work, really. ... Not easily found on recording right now... of course. Naxos planned to record it at one point, I gather, but dropped that. The label Regis is reissuing some of Olympia CD's back-catalog- for Olympia, the British label that, besides some fine recordings of their own, also made CDs out of so much of the Soviet label Melodiya's LP collection, folded a few years back- and Regis may well release the Svetlanov recording of Mya 3. Or someone else may record the work. It's worth the eye-out-for, in a recording by someone with a feel for mood.
