On Dsch - Igor Levit - Musik - SONY MUSIC CLASSICAL - 0194398092126 - 10 september 2021
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On Dsch

Igor Levit

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The new album "On DSCH" by Igor Levit is a x3 CD discographic tour de force by "one of the essential artists of our time" (The New York Times). That the self-styled "maximalist" enjoys pushing himself to his limits - intellectually and physically - is well known, but the present project - two key cycles of musical modernism - puts all others in the shade. Levit is one of the few pianists who have performed these works live in their entirety. When Levit performed Shostakovich's Twenty-Four Preludes and Fugues for the first time at the 2017 Salzburg Festival, the Neue Zürcher Zeitung described the occasion as a "major event in the musical world". In May 2019, Levit's performance of Stevenson's Passacaglia on DSCH in London's Wigmore Hall prompted the Guardian to opine that it was unlikely that the work "has ever been played better". Completed in 1951, Dmitri Shostakovich's 24 Preludes and Fugues - a summary of all the major and minor tonalities - lasts some two and a half hours in total, while Ronald Stevenson's Passacaglia on DSCH, which he completed in 1963, is an unbroken set of variations lasting nearly an hour and a half. The letters DSCH spell out Shostakovich's musical monogram using their German note names: D-Es-C-H = D-E?-C-B. Levit himself describes the 24 Preludes and Fugues as "a kind of musical diary": "There is something utterly unique", he says, "about this combination of warmth, immediacy and pure loneliness. For me, it is a ritual of self-exploration and self-discovery that deals with the most intimate questions." Ronald Stevenson (1928-2015), was a Scottish composer for whom the DSCH motif provided the basis for a spectacular survey of all manner of pianistic and stylistic possibilities over a span of more than three hundred variations. "The Passacaglia", Levit believes, "is a veritable compendium of life, a kind of music that tells us of our responsibility towards the world as a whole." The album's artwork is specially created by the internationally renowned graphic artist and book designer Christoph Niemann, who regularly illustrates for "The New Yorker" and "The New York Times". His illustration for "On DSCH" offers a playfully abstract counterpart to this musical experience.


WORKS BY RONALD STEVENSON

Media Musik     CD   (Compact Disc)
Antal skivor 3
Releasedatum 10 september 2021
EAN/UPC 0194398092126
Label SONY MUSIC CLASSICAL 19439809212
Genre klassisk
Mått 123 × 140 × 12 mm   ·   324 g

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  1. 1.   CD  

    1. Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues Op.87 - Prelude No.1
    2. Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues Op.87 - Fugue No.2
    3. Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues Op.87 - Prelude No.1
    4. Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues Op.87 - Fugue No.2
    5. Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues Op.87 - Prelude No.3
    6. Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues Op.87 - Fugue No.3
    7. Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues Op.87 - Prelude No.4
    8. Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues Op.87 - Fugue No.4
    9. Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues Op.87 - Prelude No.5
    10. Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues Op.87 - Fugue No.5
    11. Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues Op.87 - Prelude No.6
    12. Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues Op.87 - Fugue No.6
    13. Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues Op.87 - Prelude No.7
    14. Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues Op.87 - Fugue No.7
    15. Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues Op.87 - Prelude No.8
    16. Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues Op.87 - Fugue No.8
    17. Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues Op.87 - Prelude No.9
    18. Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues Op.87 - Fugue No.9
    19. Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues Op.87 - Prelude No.10
    20. Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues Op.87 - Fugue No.10
    21. Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues Op.87 - Prelude No.11
    22. Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues Op.87 - Fugue No.11
    23. Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues Op.87 - Prelude No.12
    24. Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues Op.87 - Fugue No.12
  2. 2.   CD  

    1. Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues Op.87 - Prelude No.13
    2. Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues Op.87 - Fugue No.13
    3. Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues Op.87 - Prelude No.14
    4. Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues Op.87 - Fugue No.14
    5. Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues Op.87 - Prelude No.15
    6. Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues Op.87 - Fugue No.15
    7. Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues Op.87 - Prelude No.16
    8. Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues Op.87 - Fugue No.16
    9. Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues Op.87 - Prelude No.17
    10. Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues Op.87 - Fugue No.17
    11. Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues Op.87 - Prelude No.18
    12. Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues Op.87 - Fugue No.18
    13. Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues Op.87 - Prelude No.19
    14. Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues Op.87 - Fugue No.19
    15. Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues Op.87 - Prelude No.20
    16. Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues Op.87 - Fugue No.20
    17. Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues Op.87 - Prelude No.21
    18. Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues Op.87 - Fugue No.21
    19. Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues Op.87 - Prelude No.22
    20. Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues Op.87 - Fugue No.22
    21. Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues Op.87 - Prelude No.23
    22. Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues Op.87 - Fugue No.23
    23. Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues Op.87 - Prelude No.24
    24. Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues Op.87 - Fugue No.24
  3. 3.   CD  

    1. Ronald Stevenson: Pars Prima - Sonata Allegro
    2. Ronald Stevenson: Waltz in Rondo-form
    3. Ronald Stevenson: Episode
    4. Ronald Stevenson: Suite. Prelude, Sarabande, Jig, Sarabande,
    5. Ronald Stevenson: Pibroch (Lament for the Children)
    6. Ronald Stevenson: Episode. Arabesque Variations
    7. Ronald Stevenson: Nocturne
    8. Ronald Stevenson: Pars Altera - Reverie-fantasy
    9. Ronald Stevenson: Fanfare - Forebodings. Alarm - Glimpse of
    10. Ronald Stevenson: Variations on Peace, Bread & the Land
    11. Ronald Stevenson: Symphonic March
    12. Ronald Stevenson: Episode
    13. Ronald Stevenson: Fandango
    14. Ronald Stevenson: Pedal-point. to Emergent Africa
    15. Ronald Stevenson: Central Episode. Etudes
    16. Ronald Stevenson: Variations in C Minor
    17. Ronald Stevenson: Pars Tertia - Adagio. Tribute to Bach
    18. Ronald Stevenson: Triple Fugue over Ground Bass - Subject I.
    19. Ronald Stevenson: Subject Ii. B a C H
    20. Ronald Stevenson: Subject Iii. Dies Irae (In Memoriam the Si
    21. Ronald Stevenson: Final Variations on a Theme Derived from G

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