Title: Passacaglia on DSCH / Promenade Pastorale Artist: James Willshire Label: Delphian Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 801918341199 Genre: Classical Release Date: 2013-11-12 Number of Discs: 2
Music of extraordinary range and power composed at the dawn of the Space Age, Ronald Stevenson's Passacaglia on DSCH is the longest single-movement work written for piano. It is a veritable world tour of styles as well as a single-minded exploration of it's generating motif, the musical "signature" of Dmitri Shostakovich. Rising star James Willshire has the technique to match both the work's grandeur and it's immense wealth of detail. Willshire gave the Stevenson's 1955 Variations on a Theme of Pizzetti it's belated concert premiere just this year, and now commits it to disc as one of a number of premiere recordings, including the Fugue, Variations and Epilogue on a Theme by Arnold Bax.
Tracks: 1.1 Sonata Allegro 1.2 Waltz in Rondo Form 1.3 Episode (Presto) 1.4 Suite (Prelude - Sarabande - Jig - Sarabande - Minuet - Jig - Gavotte - Polonaise) 1.5 Pibroch (Lament for the Children) 1.6 Episode: Arabesque Variations 1.7 Nocturne 1.8 Reverie-Fantasy 1.9 Fanfare - Forebodings: Alarm - Glimpse of a War-Vision 1.10 Variations on 'Peace, Bread and the Land' 1.11 Symphonic March 1.12 Episode (Volante Scherzoso) 1.13 Fandango 1.14 Pedal-Point ('To Emergent Africa') 1.15 Central Episode: Etudes 1.16 Variations in C minor 1.17 Adagio: Tribute to Bach - Triple Fugue Over Ground Bass 1.18 Subject I. Andamento 1.19 Subject II. B a C H 1.20 Subject III. Dies Irae 2.1 Final Variations on Theme Derived from Ground (Adagissimo Barocco) 2.2 Promenade Pastorale 2.3 Waltzes 2.4 Fugue Without Protocol (Tema Locriano) 2.5 Transition to Movement 2 2.6 Intermezzo-Notturno: Omaggio a John Field 2.7 Alla Giga 2.8 Marcia Funebre (Lento Ma Con Moto) 2.9 Allegro Quasi Feroce 2.10 Epilogue (Andante Cantabile) 2.11 Nocturne (Homage to John Field) 2.12 Tema: Movimento Di Sarabanda - Riflessione Del Tema - Transizione 2.13 Variation 1: Con Moto Amabile 2.14 Variation 2 2.15 Variation 3: Più Mosso (Circa Allegro) 2.16 Variation 4: Poco Meno Mosso 2.17 Variation 5 2.18 Variation 6: Sostenuto Solenne 2.19 Variation 7: Alla Marcia, Molto Moderato E Quasi Automa 2.20 Variation 8: Andante Cantabile 2.21 Variation 9: Un Po' Più Mosso (Moderato) 2.22 Variation 10: Allegretto Squisito 2.23 Variation 11: Alla Siciliana (Allegretto Grazioso) 2.24 Variation 12: Alla Barcarolla 2.25 Variation 13: Alla Tarantella 2.26 Variation 14: Allegro 2.27 Variation 15: Sostenuto 2.28 Variation 16 2.29 Adagietto 2.30 Allegro
