Passacaglia on DSCH played by the composer
STEVENSON Ronald (1928-2015)
Ronald Stevenson (Piano)
Label : Appian
Artikelnummer: APR 5650
1 CD Spielzeit : 074:31
CHF 13.50
Composed in 1960-1962 and recorded in 1964, this audacious solo piano work by the Scottish composer celebrates the anagram-motto of Shostakovich, who himself found polyphonic possibilities in the figures, that in their semi-tone rise and fall, make up an interval of the major third. Stevenson, an avid reader of James Joyce, felt that the many allusions to the course and intertwining of rivers in Finnegan's Wake should find corresponding ebb-and-flow in his own permutations of the motto.