Credits:

Elina Garanca

Description:

This new work is a three-disc epic that takes us on a "journey" through music, Shostakovich's "24 Preludes and Fugues" and Ronald Stevenson's "Passacaglia" Igor Levitt's new work is a three-disc epic. It is well known that the self-proclaimed "maximalist" enjoys pushing his limits, both intellectually and physically, and this project with two key works of musical modernism is the best example of this. completed in 1951, Dmitri Shostakovich's "24 Preludes and Fugue," written entirely in major and minor (12 x 2), is two and a half hours long. Passacaglia on DSCH," completed by Scottish composer Ronald Stevenson in 1963, is a magnificent variation of nearly an hour and a half in length that uses a note pattern by his name (D-Es-C-H = D-E♭-C-B ), which Shostakovich also often used in his following works. According to Levitt, "24 Preludes and Fugues" is , and the "Passacaglia" is

Tracklisting:

1.24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87~No. 1 in C Major: Prelude. Moderato
2.24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87~No. 1 in C Major: Fugue in 4 voices. Moderato
3.24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87~No. 2 in A Minor: Prelude. Allegro
4.24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87~No. 2 in A Minor: Fugue in 3 voices. Allegretto
5.24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87~No. 3 in G Major: Prelude. Moderato non troppo
6.24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87~No. 3 in G Major: Fugue in 3 voices. Allegro molto
7.24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87~No. 4 in E Minor: Prelude. Andante
8.24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87~No. 4 in E Minor: Fugue in 4 voices. Adagio
9.24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87~No. 5 in D Major: Prelude. Allegretto
10.24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87~No. 5 in D Major: Fugue in 3 voices. Allegretto
11.24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87~No. 6 in B Minor: Prelude. Allegretto
12.24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87~No. 6 in B Minor: Fugue in 4 voices. Moderato
13.24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87~No. 7 in A Major: Prelude. Allegro poco moderato
14.24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87~No. 7 in A Major: Fugue in 3 voices. Allegretto
15.24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87~No. 8 in F-Sharp Minor: Prelude. Allegretto
16.24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87~No. 8 in F-Sharp Minor: Fugue in 3 voices. Andante
17.24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87~No. 9 in E Major: Prelude. Moderato non troppo
18.24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87~No. 9 in E Major: Fugue in 2 voices. Allegro
19.24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87~No. 10 in C-Sharp Minor: Prelude. Allegro
20.24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87~No. 10 in C-Sharp Minor: Fugue in 4 voices. Moderato
21.24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87~No. 11 in B Major: Prelude. Allegro
22.24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87~No. 11 in B Major: Fugue in 3 voices. Allegro
23.24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87~No. 12 in G-Sharp Minor: Prelude. Andante
24.24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87~No. 12 in G-Sharp Minor: Fugue in 4 voices. Allegro