On DSCH Part 2: Stevenson - Passacaglia on DSCH (Vinyl LP)
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Label: Sony
Cat No: 19439903681
Format: LP
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 4th February 2022
Contents
Artists
Igor Levit (piano)About
On DSCH was met with huge critical acclaim, receiving a wealth of five-star reviews from publications such as The Guardian, Financial Times, BBC Music Magazine, The Scotsman and Classica. It was also included on numerous year-end lists, as well as being featured as a Gramophone Recording of the Month in September. The Guardian wrote that “his performance of the Stevenson has never been equalled” and The Times that “you would have to be a desiccated soul not to respond to Levit’s panache and the big-hearted gusto of Stevenson’s music.”
The letters DSCH spell out Shostakovich’s musical monogram using their German note names: D–Es–C–H = D–E♭–C–B – the DSCH motif provided Scottish composer Ronald Stevenson with the basis for a spectacular survey of all manner of pianistic and stylistic possibilities over a span of more than three hundred variations. “The Passacaglia,” Levit believes, “is a veritable compendium of life, a kind of music that tells us of our responsibility towards the world as a whole.”
In May 2019, Levit’s performance of Stevenson’s Passacaglia on DSCH in London’s Wigmore Hall prompted the critic of The Guardian to opine that it was unlikely that the work “has ever been played better”.
The album’s artwork is specially created by the internationally renowned graphic artist and book designer Christoph Niemann, who regularly illustrates for The New Yorker and The New York Times and has been celebrated by numerous museum retrospectives and festivals. His Abstract Sundays Instagram account, an offshoot from his New York Times blog, has 1 million followers.
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