Perpetuum

Adams, John, Bach, Johann Sebastian, Beethoven, Ludwig van, Glass, Philip, Kapsberger, Giovanni Girolamo, Ligeti, György, Purcell, Henry, Ravel, Maurice, różni kompozytorzy, Satie, Erik, Schubert, Franz, Schumann, Robert, Shostakovich, Dmitry, Stravinsky, Igor

Romaniuk, Anthony

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Anthony Romaniuk, multi-keyboardist, alchemist of pianos, or ‘musical polyglot’ as some people call him, presents his new album as follows: ‘I remember very clearly the occasions in my childhood when I would be at a concert and a magical feeling would overtake both the audience and the performers. It was as though everyone in the room was part of the performance and we were all experiencing a kind of collective bliss. As an adult I have tried to understand this phenomenon of communal concentration. It seems to me that a certain kind of musical work will naturally induce this state, works in which the rhythm is hypnotic, trance-like and ongoing. For this album I wanted to find music embodying this quality, pieces in perpetual motion.’ As if in some fascinating portrait gallery, we meet music by Kapsberger, Scarlatti, Purcell, Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, Ravel, Satie, Ligeti, Adams, and improvisations, played on a Fazioli concert piano, a Graf fortepiano from 1835, a Flemish muselar, a seventeenth-century harpsichord, a Yamaha CP80 electro-acoustic piano and a Prophet Rev2 synthesiser.

https://youtu.be/BzJ4_sORTmw

Works:

Schubert: Allegro in A minor 'Lebensstürme', D947
•Schubert: An die Musik D547
•Schubert: An Sylvia, D891
•Schubert: Auf der Bruck, D853
•Schubert: Der Gondelfahrer, D809
•Schubert: Der Hirt auf dem Felsen, D965 (Von Chezy / Muller)
•Schubert: Der König in Thule, D367
•Schubert: Der Tod und das Mädchen, D531
•Schubert: Der Wanderer, D489
•Schubert: Der Zwerg, D771 (Collin)
•Schubert: Die junge Nonne, D828
•Schubert: Die Taubenpost, D965A (D957 No. 14)
•Schubert: Divertissement à la Hongroise D818
•Schubert: Du bist die Ruh D776 (Rückert)
•Schubert: Du liebst mich nicht D756 (Platen)
•Schubert: Fantasie in F minor for piano duet, D940
•Schubert: Ganymed, D544 (Goethe)
•Schubert: Gesange (3), Op. 83, D. 902
•Schubert: Gretchen am Spinnrade, D118
•Schubert: Il modo di prender moglie D902 No. 3 (anonymous)
•Schubert: Il traditor deluso D902 No. 2 (Metastasio)
•Schubert: Impromptu in C minor, D899 No. 1
•Schubert: L'incanto degli occhi, D902 No. 1 (Metastasio)
•Schubert: La Pastorella, D513
•Schubert: Meeres Stille, D216, Op. 3 No. 2 (Goethe)
•Schubert: Nacht und Träume, D827
•Schubert: Nachtgesang im Walde, D913
•Schubert: Notturno in E flat major for piano trio, D897 (Op. post.148)
•Schubert: Piano Quintet in A major, D667 'The Trout'
•Schubert: Piano Trio No. 2 in E flat major, D929 - 2nd movement
•Schubert: Sonata in A minor 'Arpeggione', D821
•Schubert: Sonatina (Sonatina) in G minor, D408 (Op. posth. 137 No. 3)
•Schubert: Ständchen 'Zögernd leise', D920/921

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2/7/23

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