Stevenson Plays Stevenson : Piano Works
Genre: Classical
Catalogue Number: AIRCD9091(1)-(2)
Label: Altarus
Released: 1990
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Ronald Stevenson's Passacaglia on DSCH was presented to Schostakovich on a festival visit to Edinburgh. A passacaglia of ten minutes or more is considered a large one, but Stevenson's work is an unprecedented and majestic eighty minutes in length. With four notes as a canvas. an extraordinary world picture is created in which visions of Africa, Russia, Scots Pibroch and virtually all of the western forms are paid homage to. The great fugue in the third part has three subjects; DSCH; the BACH (B flat, A, C, B); and the Dies Irae. The combination of the first two is a symbol of peace between the Russian and German nations and all mankind. The latter theme represents an in memoriam for the six million Jews who were murdered by Nazi Germany. A truly momentus work well worth taking the time to get to know.
This double CD also features Stevenson's Prelude Fugue and Fantasy, inspired by Busoni's opera Doktor Faust, and Recitative and Air. All performed by Robert Stevenson himself.
Tracklist
- Prelude, Fugue and Fantasy
- Recitative and Air
- Passacaglia on DSCH
- Pars Prima: Sonata allegro (Allefor moderato, Andantino, Allegro moderato)
- Waltz in rondo form
- Episode
- Suite (Prelude, Sarabande, Jig, Sarabande. Minuet, Jig, Gavotte, Polonaise)
- Pibroch Urlar: Cumha na Cloinne [Lament for the Children]
- Episode: arabesque variations
- Nocturne
- Pars Altera: Reverie - Fantasy
- Fanfare, Forebodings/Alarum, Glimpse of a war-vision
- Variations on "Peace, Bread, and the Land" (1917)
- Symphonic March
- Episode
- Fandango
- Pedal-Point: "To Emergent Africa"
- Central episde: ètudes
- Variations in C minor
- Pars Tertia: Adagio: tribute to Bach
- Subject I: Allegro moderato
- Subject II: BACH-DSCH
- Subject: Dies irae (in memoriam the six million)
- Final variations on a theme derived from the ground (Adagissimo barocco)
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- Ronald Stevenson: Recitative And Air: Piano Solo. Ronald Stevenson, Piano plays Prelude, Fugue and Fantasy on themes from Busoni's "Doktor Faust" and more. (2CD) (CD)
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- Ronald Stevenson: Twentieth-Century Operatic Fantasias. includes Benjamin Britten-Ronald Stevenson: Peter Grimes Fantasy. (CD)
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- Ronald Stevenson: Piano Music. Performed by Joseph Banowetz (CD)
- Ronald Stevenson : Passacaglia on D.S.C.H.. Divine Arts dedicate this disc to Stevenson in celebration of his recent 75th birthday. (CD)
- Cappella Nova: 20th Century Scottish Choral Music. Cresswell, Dalby, Stevenson, and Sweeney. (CD)
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