Igor Levit: On DSCH - Who was Ronald Stevenson?

Igor Levit talks about his new album “On DSCH,” which will be released on Sony Classical on September 10, 2021.
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“On DSCH” is a 3-album discographic tour de force by “one of the essential artists of our time” (The New York Times). That the self-styled “maximalist” enjoys pushing himself to his limits - intellectually and physically -is well known, but the present project - two key cycles of musical modernism - puts all others in the shade.
Completed in 1951, Dmitri Shostakovich’s 24 Preludes and Fugues - a summary of all the major and minor tonalities - lasts some two and a half hours in total, while Ronald Stevenson’s Passacaglia on DSCH, which he completed in 1963, is an unbroken set of variations lasting nearly an hour and a half. The letters DSCH spell out Shostakovich’s musical monogram using their German note names: D-Es-C-H = D-E♭-C-B.
The album’s artwork is specially created by the internationally renowned artist and graphic designer Christoph Niemann, who regularly illustrates for The New Yorker and The New York Times.
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[@wolframweiler4809]

Ein Pianist,der die Wahrheit spielt und sich nicht scheut sie auch zu sagen ❗️👍Bravo

[@amitavaganguly4352]

It would be wonderful if Maestro could explain us some of the key motifs of this gigantic compositions and especially the complex relationship the composition shares with Bussoni's compostion too (that the composer mentioned very briefly in his interview clip).