Pianist Peter Jablonski’s new album on Ondine is focused on the piano works of Ronald Stevenson (1928–2015), a Scottish pianist, composer, thinker, writer, educator, and a committed pacifist. Best known for his monumental 80-minute-long Passacaglia on DSCH, a tribute to Shostakovich composed in 1962, this piano album features a selection of piano gems written between 1959 and 2002. Alongside Stevenson’s masterful Peter Grimes Fantasy, the album includes four world première recordings touching but a corner of a rich and enormous tapestry of nearly 500 piano pieces written by the composer.
Works:
•Ronald Stevenson: Peter Grimes Fantasy
• Ronald Stevenson: Suite aus Paderewskis "Manru"
• Ronald Stevenson: Romanze aus Mozarts Klavierkonzert Nr. 20
• Ronald Stevenson: Quintet aus "The Mastersingers"
• Ronald Stevenson: Os tinato Macabro on the name Godowski
• Ronald Stevenson: Etudette d'apres Korsakov et Chopin
• Ronald Stevenson: 6 Pensees sur des Preludes de Chopin
• Ronald Stevenson: Little jazz variations on Purcell's "New Scotch Tune"
• Ronald Stevenson: Piccolo Niccolo Paganinesco
• Ronald Stevenson: Preludette on the name George Gershwin
• Ronald Stevenson: Tauberiana