Let's talk music, no genre boundaries

It seems that a new version of the "mount Everest" of piano work, the Clavicem Ballisticum of Sorabji was recorded and rival Ogdon majestic madness with a more deep analytical insight in the piece...

I will buy it for sure...

I have 20 box of Sorabi music...

The clavicem box is 5 hours ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PCCGC3nFBU&list=PL9GK1dCgxUgxk-Aej5ibP6ntEdOSQq9xX

Here an article of Gramophone about it :

https://www.gramophone.co.uk/international-piano/review/article/review-sorabji-opus-clavicembalisticum-daan-vandewalle

I doubt it will beat Ogdon madness but i love too much Sorabji  to let it go ...

By the way the Top Sorabji box is the incredible  Ullen  100 transcendental studies  7 cd ...

It is what is the heart of Sorabji for me :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsunU1Jyigk&list=PLRs_FxzJLU50ArgMv2Ykm9IUsELIYwoML

If the clavicem is Mount Everest of Piano by the difficulties  the transcendental Studies are Mount Erebus in Antartica, so varied, so strange, so fascinating , it is after for the beginner "perfumed garden" album the box we must buy at all cost if we love Sorabji ...

 For those who love Book, Roberge has written the authoritative book on Sorabji, 641 pages.the full book is free PDF here :

https://www.sorabji-archive.co.uk/books/opus-sorabjianum.php

 There is also but harder to find books autobiographical and philosophical written by Sorabji himself ...

Music exist in speech as its root..

Then music has no need for a goal as a tree roots has no goal save to sustain life...

 We are the tree. Our roots dont have goal no more than our feet.

 But we speaking walking trees we speak or do music to "change our own consciousness level"...

Music is not just leisure, pleasure,but a sacred moral duty as speech itself.

This is the spiritual content of music.

Music is more  about a higher consciousness level, not about "taste" so much...But because we are all different, we "taste" different flavors and stick to them.It is why thread as this one matter, we must go out of our own habits and explore other realms...

@mahgister 

I have a number of Schnabel albums, playing mostly Beethoven's latter piano sonatas, but also a Schubert sonata. I don't get him. Compared to the more modern pianists I like, he sounds a bit clumsy. I know I must be missing something. @frogman 

Can you help me understand why Schnabel is considered great?

@mahgister 

I understand and i am sorry for your frustration...

... which is far outweighed by all of your suggestions that are expanding my awareness and enjoyment of, Classical music.    ;o) 

@audio-b-dog 

No doubt it there would be practical and perhaps sonic advantages to switching from CDs to streaming. The prospect of entrusting my listening to an internet connection that can go down at any time makes me nervous. Listening to music is a very personal activity and I'd prefer to maintain my sense of privacy, illusory as it may be. I have enough difficulty with digital interfaces as it is and my mind is not getting any sharper. In the future, I can't help but believe I'll be less likely to succumb to confusion playing CDs compared to negotiating software menus.