Ronald Stevenson: Piano Music

Disc 1:
Komm, susser Tod (after Bach)
Prelude and Chorale (An Easter Offering)
L’Art nouveau du chant appliqué au piano
(volumes 1 and 2)
Six Pensées sur des Préludes de Chopin
Variations-Study on a Chopin Waltz
Etudette d’après Korsakov et Chopin
Three Contrapuntal Studies on Chopin Waltzes
Disc 2:
Le Festin d’Alkan
Sonata no. 1 in G minor (after Ysaÿe)
Sonata no. 2 (after Ysaÿe)
Norse Elegy
Canonic Caprice on ‘The Bat’
Disc 3:
Fantasy for mechanical organ (on Mozart’s K. 608)
Romanze from Piano Concerto in D minor, K.466 (after Mozart)
Melody on a Ground of Glazunov
Ricordanza di San Romerio
Three Grounds (after Purcell)
Toccata (after Purcell)
Little Jazz Variations on Purcell’s ‘New Scotch Tune’
Hornpipe (after Purcell)
The Queen’s Dolour (after Purcell)
Two Music Portraits
Three Elizabethan Pieces after John Bull

Ronald Stevenson is one of the most original minds in the world of the composition of music. – So said Yehudi Menuhin. This magnum opus set is a magnificent culmination of several years of planning and a great acheivement by Murray McLachlan. Stevenson’s most remarkable work, Le Festin d’Alkan, is given a superb performance as are his incredibly varied transcriptions and fantasies on Bach, Ysaÿe and Chopin (and others) and a number of his other original works.