Composer: Phillip Ramey
Performer: Stephen Gosling
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0029
Release: 2006
Size: 298 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Colour Etudes
01. No. 1. Purple: Andante liturgico
02. No. 2. Green: Allegro moderato
03. No. 3. Maroon: Adagio
04. No. 4. Orange: Allegro moderato
05. No. 5. Red: Moderato
06. No. 6. Gold: Allegro
07. No. 7. Blue: Larghetto – Scherzando
08. No. 8. Silver: Allegro scherzando
09. No. 9. Black: Allegro
10. Memorial (In Memoriam Alexander Tcherepnin)
11. Chromatic Waltz
Piano Sonata No. 1
12. I. Allegro marcato
13. II. Adagio
14. III. Allegro vivace
Piano Sonata No. 2
15. I. Moderato
16. II. Largo –
17. II. Allegro con brio – Lento
18. Piano Sonata No. 5 for the Left Hand
19. Piano Fantasy
4 Tangier Portraits
20. No. 1. Paul Bowles: At Eighty
21. No. 2. Cherie Nutting: Elf in Kasbah
22. No. 3. Philip Krone: Plotting a Strategy
23. No. 4. Phillip Ramey: Dire Thoughts Beneath the Sweltering Sky
24. Toccata No. 2
The piano music of American composer Phillip Ramey (b. 1939) has its roots in the motoric athleticism of Prokofiev and Bartók, refracted through the wiry and elegant polyphony of his teacher, Alexander Tcherepnin. To these early influences Ramey has brought the tangy dissonance of mainstream modernism and a Lisztian enjoyment of the grand Romantic gesture. The works on this CD range in mood from tranquil introspection by way of sober lyricism to thunderous explosions of demonic energy expressed in high-octane piano-writing that pushes virtuosity to the limit.