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Anthony Romaniuk (early keyboard instruments)

Perpetuum
another stimulating and imaginatively curated programme of short pieces and improvisations, going back and forth between various acoustic and electronic keyboards.

Gramophone Magazine, April 2023

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Anthony Romaniuk (early keyboard instruments)

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another stimulating and imaginatively curated programme of short pieces and improvisations, going back and forth between various acoustic and electronic keyboards.

Gramophone Magazine, April 2023

About

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 synthesiser.

Contents and tracklist

Adams, J: China Gates
Work length4:33
Satie: En y regardant à deux fois (No. 1 from Pièces froides: Danses de travers)
Work length1:20
Bach, J S: Lute Suite No. 4 in E major, BWV1006a: Preludio
Work length3:28
Jeffes, S: Perpetuum Mobile
Work length2:55
Ligeti: Étude No. 4 'Fanfares'
Work length4:00
Schubert: Impromptu in G flat major, D899 No. 3
Work length5:30
Romaniuk: Shadings
Work length2:40
Purcell: A New Ground in E minor, Z. T682
Work length2:14
Satie: Passer (No. 2 from Pièces froides: Danses de travers)
Work length1:18
Romaniuk: Parabola
Work length1:46
Stravinsky: Piano Sonata, K043: I. Quarter note = 112
Work length3:13
Bach, J S: Toccata in E minor, BWV914
Work length6:25
Glass, P: Etude No. 2
Work length5:58
Schumann: Intermezzo from Faschingsschwank aus Wien, Op. 26
Work length2:17
Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin: Prelude
Work length3:32
anon.: Uppon La Mi Re
Work length2:41
Shostakovich: Prelude & Fugue for piano, Op. 87 No. 2 in A minor
Work length0:50
Romaniuk: Improvisation upon 'Uppon La Mi Re'
Work length1:40
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor, Op. 31 No. 2 'Tempest' - Allegretto
Work length5:42
Satie: Pièces froides: Danse de travers No. 3
Work length2:04
Kapsberger: Libro I d'intavolatura di chitarrone: Toccata Arpeggiata
Work length4:04

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April 2023

another stimulating and imaginatively curated programme of short pieces and improvisations, going back and forth between various acoustic and electronic keyboards.
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