Brenda Lucas Ogdon
FRSM(PfP)
ARMCM(PfT,PfP) LRSM(PfP) ATCL(PfP)
Pianist and Teacher
New CD released 1 October 2021
"Ravel que J'Aime"
Jeux d'eau • Sonatine • Miroirs • Valses nobles et sentimentales • À la manière de Borodine • À la manière de Chabrier • Prélude, Fugue & Rigaudon from "Le Tombeau de Couperin"
On 1 October 2021 Brenda Lucas Ogdon released a new CD of piano music by Ravel to raise funds for the housing and homelessness charity Shelter.
"Your new CD of Ravel, some of my favourite repertoire – I have listened to it with much pleasure. Congratulations on bringing it into being." (Julian Jacobson, Professor of Piano, RCM)
Read an interview with Brenda Lucas Ogdon about the new CD on The Cross-Eyed Pianist.
Read an article about the new CD in the Cambridge Independent.
The CD on the Sterling label, catalogue CDA 1855, can be bought directly from Brenda Lucas Ogdon for £12.50 + £3.50 p&p via PayPal (secure):
The CD is also available from suppliers including the following:
Presto Classical •
Europadisc •
Amazon UK
Also on streaming platforms:
Spotify •
Apple Music •
Deezer •
Amazon Music
Performance of Jeux d'Eau, by Ravel
Brenda's recording: J.S.Bach — "The Well Tempered Clavier"
Book 2, 24 Preludes and Fugues, is available for £13.50 + £3.50 p&p via PayPal (secure):
Seven videos from the set are available to watch now on YouTube.
Above, the first: "Brenda Ogdon plays Prelude and Fugue No 1 in C Major".
Among the many existing interpretations of the 2nd book of The Well-Tempered Keyboard, yours
is the one that gives me the most pleasure and emotion. Bravo for your talent and your wonderful understanding
of Bach.
Marc Sommer (France)
Thank you for your convincing recording of J. S. Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier II.
I've been looking for a recording like this for a long time. Your playing is characterized by clarity and
transparency, and the music flows like a river (translation: German "BACH"="river") evenly in meter without
permanent accelerations and delays and without disturbing rubati. It's like a smooth train ride through
beautiful countryside with no abrupt changes in tempo.
The tempi are also chosen in such a way that the musical figures always remain transparent and recognizable
(no races for the fastest throughput times). In addition, the microphone was technically very close to the
piano, which enables a very nice, full piano sound. This is certainly an additional challenge for a pianist,
because it requires a clean playing technique. You did all of this very well. Bravo. It is also positive
to note that the range of dynamics and tempo was chosen in such a way that the WTC2-collection retains its
musical unity and is not torn apart. Listening to your recording allows for inner focus and has therapeutic
benefits for one's inner health. I heard your recording on YouTube and ordered the Sterling CD/2018 from
www.jpc.de.
Thank you for the beautiful music and all the best to you and your team.
A listener (Germany)
Virtuoso
The
Story of John Ogdon
, by Brenda Lucas Ogdon and
Michael Kerr, newly re-published in paperback with good
reviews
. This moving account tells of the early
successes of this musical genius, his severe mental
breakdowns and eventual recovery. RRP £9.95, available
from
WHSmith
,
Blackwell
,
Amazon
,
Word Power
... ISBN 9781845492915.
Last recital
5th December 2007 at
Steinway & Sons
, London, in aid of the John Ogdon Foundation and in
memory of Ogdon's 70th Anniversary. Works by Bach, Chopin,
Webern and John Ogdon.
Reviews
a charming and distinguished pianist
Times Saturday
Magazine
played intelligently and lovingly
Christopher
Headington, Gramophone 1992
Ogdon and Lucas are an agile, sensitive and
integral duo; a case of two and two making one
Christopher Wood, BBC
Music Magazine 1996
the improvement of my playing, technique and
approach is far beyond my expectations
an adult
student
Member of the
Incorporated Society of
Musicians
.