Performer: Anthony Romaniuk
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Alpha
Catalogue: ALPHA913
Release: 2023
Size: 2.25 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Adams: China Gates
02. Satie: En y regardant à deux fois (No. 1 from Pièces froides: Danses de travers)
03. Bach: Lute Suite No. 4 in E major, BWV1006a: Preludio
04. Jeffes: Perpetuum Mobile
05. Ligeti: Étude No. 4 ‘Fanfares’
06. Schubert: Impromptu in G flat major, D899 No. 3
07. Romaniuk: Shadings
08. Purcell: A New Ground in E minor, Z. T682
09. Satie: Passer (No. 2 from Pièces froides: Danses de travers)
10. Romaniuk: Parabola
11. Stravinsky: Piano Sonata, K043: I. Quarter note = 112
12. Bach: Toccata in E minor, BWV914
13. Glass: Etude No. 2
14. Schumann: Intermezzo from Faschingsschwank aus Wien, Op. 26
15. Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin: Prelude
16. anon.: Uppon La Mi Re
17. Shostakovich: Prelude & Fugue for piano, Op. 87 No. 2 in A minor
18. Romaniuk: Improvisation upon ‘Uppon La Mi Re’
19. Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor, Op. 31 No. 2 ‘Tempest’ – Allegretto
20. Satie: Pièces froides: Danse de travers No. 3
21. Kapsberger: Libro I d’intavolatura di chitarrone: Toccata Arpeggiata
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.