Igor Levit - On DSCH (2021) [Hi-Res]

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Artist: Igor Levit
Title: On DSCH
Year Of Release: 2021
Label: Sony Classical
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks) / 24bit-96kHz FLAC (tracks+booklet)
Total Time: 03:50:28
Total Size: 703 MB / 3.34 GB
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist:

CD1
1. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Prelude No. 1 in C Major (2:37)
2. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Fugue No. 1 in C Major (2:33)
3. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Prelude No. 2 in A Minor (0:54)
4. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Fugue No. 2 in A Minor (1:26)
5. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Prelude No. 3 in G Major (1:49)
6. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Fugue No. 3 in G Major (1:52)
7. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Prelude No. 4 in E Minor (2:58)
8. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Fugue No. 4 in E Minor (4:45)
9. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Prelude No. 5 in D Major (1:28)
10. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Fugue No. 5 in D Major (1:48)
11. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Prelude No. 6 in B Minor (1:55)
12. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Fugue No. 6 in B Minor (4:58)
13. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Prelude No. 7 in A Major (1:14)
14. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Fugue No. 7 in A Major (2:12)
15. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Prelude No. 8 in F-Sharp Minor (1:12)
16. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Fugue No. 8 in F-Sharp Minor (7:12)
17. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Prelude No. 9 in E Major (2:07)
18. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Fugue No. 9 in E Major (1:36)
19. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Prelude No. 10 in C-Sharp Minor (2:10)
20. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Fugue No. 10 in C-Sharp Minor (5:27)
21. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Prelude No. 11 in B Major (1:05)
22. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Fugue No. 11 in B Major (2:00)
23. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Prelude No. 12 in G-Sharp Minor (4:32)
24. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Fugue No. 12 in G-Sharp Minor (3:45)

CD2
1. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Prelude No. 13 in F-Sharp Major (2:28)
2. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Fugue No. 13 in F-Sharp Major (4:46)
3. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Prelude No. 14 in E-Flat Minor (4:08)
4. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Fugue No. 14 in E-Flat Minor (2:44)
5. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Prelude No. 15 in D-Flat Major (2:34)
6. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Fugue No. 15 in D-Flat Major (1:33)
7. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Prelude No. 16 in B-Flat Minor (2:39)
8. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Fugue No. 16 in B-Flat Minor (7:29)
9. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Prelude No. 17 in A-Flat Major (1:39)
10. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Fugue No. 17 in A-Flat Major (3:40)
11. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Prelude No. 18 in F Minor (2:10)
12. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Fugue No. 18 in F Minor (3:03)
13. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Prelude No. 19 in E-Flat Major (2:16)
14. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Fugue No. 19 in E-Flat Major (2:26)
15. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Prelude No. 20 in C Minor (4:04)
16. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Fugue No. 20 in C Minor (5:12)
17. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Prelude No. 21 in B-Flat Major (1:17)
18. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Fugue No. 21 in B-Flat Major (2:43)
19. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Prelude No. 22 in G Minor (2:01)
20. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Fugue No. 22 in G Minor (3:12)
21. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Prelude No. 23 in F Major (2:25)
22. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Fugue No. 23 in F Major (4:02)
23. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Prelude No. 24 in D Minor (4:12)
24. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Fugue No. 24 in D Minor (9:23)

CD3
1. Passacaglia on DSCH: Pars Prima: Sonata allegro (6:38)
2. Passacaglia on DSCH: Pars Prima: Waltz in rondo-form (2:20)
3. Passacaglia on DSCH: Pars Prima: Episode (1:10)
4. Passacaglia on DSCH: Pars Prima: Suite. Prelude - Sarabande - Jig - Sarabande. Minuet - Jig - Gavotte - Polonaise (12:19)
5. Passacaglia on DSCH: Pars Prima: Pibroch (Lament for the Children) (2:48)
6. Passacaglia on DSCH: Pars Prima: Episode. Arabesque Variations (0:41)
7. Passacaglia on DSCH: Pars Prima: Nocturne (1:59)
8. Passacaglia on DSCH: Pars Altera: Reverie-Fantasy (5:31)
9. Passacaglia on DSCH: Pars Altera: Fanfare - Forebodings. Alarm - Glimpse of a War-Vision (2:13)
10. Passacaglia on DSCH: Pars Altera: Variations on "Peace, Bread & the Land" (1917) (2:08)
11. Passacaglia on DSCH: Pars Altera: Symphonic March (1:55)
12. Passacaglia on DSCH: Pars Altera: Episode (0:56)
13. Passacaglia on DSCH: Pars Altera: Fandango (2:09)
14. Passacaglia on DSCH: Pars Altera: Pedal-Point. "To emergent Africa" (2:04)
15. Passacaglia on DSCH: Pars Altera: Central Episode. Études (3:43)
16. Passacaglia on DSCH: Pars Altera: Variations in C Minor (3:42)
17. Passacaglia on DSCH: Pars Tertia: Adagio. Tribute to Bach (1:58)
18. Passacaglia on DSCH: Pars Tertia: Triple Fugue over Ground Bass: Subject I. Andamento (5:19)
19. Passacaglia on DSCH: Pars Tertia: Triple Fugue over Ground Bass: Subject II. B A C H (7:03)
20. Passacaglia on DSCH: Pars Tertia: Triple Fugue over Ground Bass: Subject III. Dies Irae (In memoriam the six million) (6:34)
21. Passacaglia on DSCH: Pars Tertia: Final Variations on a Theme Derived from Ground. Adagissimo barocco (12:13)

Igor Levit knows no half measures - it’s either all in or nothing. In 2019, he recorded Beethoven's complete 32 piano sonatas for Sony Classical; in 2020, he played the longest work in music history in concert - Eric Satie's 18-hour long Vexations; and then there were his daily concerts from his home during the first lockdown. Now comes a new musical extreme. With On DSCH, Levit embraces the 20th century, his own Russian roots, and turns to two composers who, like him, were much more than just musicians. The album is divided into two parts: It includes the complete 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87, by Shostakovich, complemented by Ronald Stevenson's homage to the Russian master, Passacaglia on DSCH. Levit acknowledges this connection and bridges the gap between these two Cold War artists with a project that leaves the listener breathless. As his friend and musicologist Anselm Cybinski would say, "nothing less than 360° totality."

When Shostakovich heard the Well-Tempered Clavier in Leipzig in 1950, on the 200th anniversary of Bach’s death, he shortly thereafter decided to compose a modern equivalent. Unlike Bach, his 24 preludes and fugues are arranged in a circle of fifths rather than chromatically. His pieces focus less on complex compositional and formal features and more on the versatility of motifs as well as inner expression at a time when the composer was still struggling under Stalinism. Ten years later, Stevenson, a native of Scotland, composed Passacaglia on DSCH, a political statement at the height of the Cold War. Stevenson refers directly to Shostakovich by using the monogram D-S-C-H, which his elder (whose name is spelt ‘Schostakowitsch’ in German) had himself incorporated into several of his works. Throughout his nearly hour-long work, Stevenson explores the Russian composer’s leitmotif in a new and expanded way, and his variations build on each other, creating a kind of ‘perpetual motion’.

One could argue that this ever-turning musical wheel is Levit’s trademark. With incredible stamina, sustained energy and enormous dynamic and tonal flexibility, he gives each moment its own meaning, whether it be the powerful and mystical Passacaglia of Prelude No. 12 in G sharp minor or the much more provocative and almost dance-like Fugue No.15 in D flat major. Levit manages to unite these two extremes of Shostakovich’s work not only musically but also intellectually, but Stevenson is not to be outdone here: a work dedicated to the victims of the Holocaust (something which Levit also considers as one of his great callings in life), the Dies Irae that concludes the vast Triple Fugue Over Ground Bass is indusputably one of the other highlights of this triple CD. © Lena Germann/Qobuz

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