Phillip Ramey: Piano Music, Volume Three: 1960-2010
The piano music of the American composer Phillip Ramey (b. 1939) is rooted in the motoric athleticism of Prokofiev and Bartók, seasoned with sober lyricism, spicy modernist dissonance and a fresh approach to the grand Romantic gesture. Covering a span of half a century, this third Toccata Classics album includes the vivacious early Suite, the sparkling Toccata Giocosa, the atmospheric Slavic Rhapsody, the parodistic Burlesque-Paraphrase on a Theme of Stephen Foster and the exotic Djebel Bani (A Saharan Meditation), concluding with the virtuosic, highly dramatic Sixth Sonata.
Stephen Gosling, piano
Listen To This Recording:
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Suite (1960-63; rev. 1988)
- I. Prelude (Allegro)
- II. Aria (Andante con moto)
- III. Scherzo (Allegro moderato)
- IV. Homage to Gershwin (Andantino)
- V. Evocation (Adagio cantabile)
- VI. March (Allegro moderato)
- VII. Ballade (Adagio)
- VIII. Burlesque (Allegro)
- IX. Hymn à la russe (Andante con moto; Grandioso)
- X. Toccata (Allegro con spirito)
- I. Moderato enigmatico
- II. Moderato barbaro
- Toccata Giocosa (1966)
- Slavic Rhapsody (The Novgorod Kremlin at Night) (2009-10)
- Burlesque-Paraphrase on a Theme of Stephen Foster (1990)
- Bagatelle on ‘Dies Irae’ (2010)
- Djebel Bani (A Saharan Meditation) (2009)
- Blue Phantom (2008)
- Piano Sonata No. 6 (Sonata-Fantasia) (2008): Moderato; Allegro; Interlude 1 (Adagio sognando); Moderato; Allegro; Interlude 2 (Andante serioso); Adagio; Grandioso
Two Short Pieces (1967)
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