Anthony Romaniuk: Perpetuum

Anthony Romaniuk, multi-keyboardist, alchemist of pianos, or \u2018musical polyglot\u2019 as some people call him, presents his new album as follows: \u2018I 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.\u2019 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.

1: China Gates
2: En Y Regardant À Deux Fois
3: I. Prélude
4: Perpetuum Mobile
5: Etude No. 4, 'Fanfares'
6: Impromptu No. 3 in G-flat Major
7: Shadings
8: A New Ground in E Minor, ZT682
9: Passer
10: Parabola
11: I. Quarter Note = 112
12: Toccata in E Minor, BWV914
13: Etude No. 2
14: Intermezzo
15: I. Prélude. Vif
16: Uppon La Mi Re
17: Prelude No. 2 in a Minor
18: Improvisation Upon 'Uppon La Mi Re'
19: III. Finale
20: Encore
21: Toccata Arpeggiata

Composer: Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger, Philip Glass, John Adams, Gyorgy Ligeti, Igor Stravinsky, Robert Schumann, Franz Schubert, Dmitri Shostakovich, Johann Sebastian Bach, Henry Purcell, Anthony Romaniuk, Erik Satie, Ludwig van Beethoven, Maurice Ravel, Simon Jeffes

Number of Discs: 1

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