Recorded on the Altarus label.
Sad news: pianist Joseph Banowetz has died at the age of 87. His recordings of Anton Rubinstein’s Piano Concerto No.4, and music by Ronald Stevenson.
Recorded on the Altarus label.
Stevenson:
“Fugue on a fragment of Chopin [the Ballade no. 4 in F-minor, op. 52] (0:00)
A twentieth century music diary
1. Preludio al corale (7:02)
2. Vivace scherzoso (11:19)
3. Andante con moto (12:09)
4. Allegro risoluto (13:24)
5. Andante (14:05)
6. Allegretto (15:04)
7. Allegro scherzoso (15:39)
8. Con moto amabile (16:09)
9. Canone. Andantino lagrimoso. In memoriam Bernard van Dieren (16:41)
10. Motivo. Largo drammatico – Agitato volante (cavalcata notturna) [based on B-A-C-H] (18:49)
11. Allegro moderato [7 variations on the 12-tone row that Darius Milhaud discovered in the Statue Scene of Don Giovanni] (20:29)
12. Allegro moderato [7 variations on a theme from Berlioz’s Damnation of Faust] (23:28)
13. Allegro molto [fugue on the opening motif of Busoni’s Arlecchino] (25:32)
14. Lento assai [based on the opening of Liszt’s Faust Symphony) (26:10)
15. Lento (27:59)
16. Andante (30:23)
Symphonic elegy for Liszt (32:51)
A Scottish triptych
1. Keening sang for a makar (in memoriam F.G. Scott) (46:19)
2. Heroic song for Hugh MacDiarmid (54:13)
3. Choral pribroch for Sorley Maclean (59:48)
Motus perpetuus (?) temporibus fatalibus [Large portions of this piece are reworked from no. 10 of “A twentieth century music diary. Dedicated to Joseph Banowetz.] (1:06:28)”