Anthony Romaniuk - Perpetuum (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/192]

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 synthesizer.

TRACKLIST

01. Anthony Romaniuk - China Gates
02. Anthony Romaniuk - Pièces froides: II. Danses de travers: No. 1, En y regardant à deux fois
03. Anthony Romaniuk - Suite in E Major, BWV 1006a: I. Prélude (Arr. for Piano by Anthony Romaniuk)
04. Anthony Romaniuk - Perpetuum Mobile (Arr. for Piano by Anthony Romaniuk)
05. Anthony Romaniuk - Etude No. 4 "Fanfares"
06. Anthony Romaniuk - 4 Impromptus, D. 899: No. 3, Andante in G-Flat Major
07. Anthony Romaniuk - Shadings
08. Anthony Romaniuk - A New Ground in E Minor, ZT 682
09. Anthony Romaniuk - Pièces froides: II. Danses de travers: No. 2, Passer
10. Anthony Romaniuk - Parabola
11. Anthony Romaniuk - Piano Sonata, K043: I. Quarter note = 112
12. Anthony Romaniuk - Toccata in E Minor, BWV 914
13. Anthony Romaniuk - Etude No. 2
14. Anthony Romaniuk - Faschingsschwank aus Wien, Op. 26: No. 4, Intermezzo
15. Anthony Romaniuk - Le tombeau de Couperin, M. 68: I. Prélude. Vif
16. Anthony Romaniuk - Uppon La Mi Re
17. Anthony Romaniuk - 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Prelude No. 2 in A Minor
18. Anthony Romaniuk - Improvisation upon 'Uppon La Mi Re'
19. Anthony Romaniuk - Piano Sonata No. 17, Op. 31 No. 2: III. Finale
20. Anthony Romaniuk - Pièces froides: II. Danses de travers: No. 3, Encore
21. Anthony Romaniuk - Toccata Arpeggiata



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