tracklist
CD 1
1 No. 1 in C 3’35”
2 No. 2 in A minor 2’00”
3 No. 3 in G 3’26”
4 No. 4 in E minor 5’30”
5 No. 5 in D 3’16”
6 No. 6 in B minor 4’47”
7 No. 7 in A 3’12”
8 No. 8 in F-Sharp minor 7’03”
9 No. 9 in E 3’56”
10 No. 10 in C-Sharp minor 6’23”
11 No. 11 in B 3’30”
12 No. 12 in G-Sharp minor 7’07”
Total Time: 53’53”
CD 2
1 No. 13 in F-Sharp 6’57”
2 No. 14 in E-Flat minor 5’48”
3 No. 15 in D-Flat 4’51”
4 No. 16 in B-Flat minor 8’30”
5 No. 17 in A-Flat 5’10”
6 No. 18 in F minor 5’16”
7 No. 19 in E-Flat 4’01”
8 No. 20 in C minor 7’54”
9 No. 21 in B-Flat 3’45”
10 No. 22 in G minor 5’38”
11 No. 23 in F 5’13”
12 No. 24 in D minor 8’40”
Total Time: 71’51”
Johann Sebastian Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, BWV 846-869 (2 CDs, Complete Edition) (14281-2)
CD 1
1 Präludium Nr. 1 C-Dur BWV 846
1’59”
2 Fuge Nr. 1 C-Dur BWV 846
2’15”
3 Präludium Nr. 2 c-Moll BWV 847
2’00”
4 Fuge Nr. 2 c-Moll BWV 847
1’39”
5 Präludium Nr. 3 Cis-Dur BWV 848
1’13”
6 Fuge Nr. 3 Cis-Dur BWV 848
2’20”
7 Präludium Nr. 4 cis-Moll BWV 849
3’40”
8 Fuge Nr. 4 cis-Moll BWV 849
4’03”
9 Präludium Nr. 5 D-Dur BWV 850
1’23”
10 Fuge Nr. 5 D-Dur BWV 850
2’05”
11 Präludium Nr. 6 d-Moll BWV 851
1’24”
12 Fuge Nr. 6 d-Moll BWV 851
2’30”
13 Präludium Nr. 7 Es-Dur BWV 852
3’46”
14 Fuge Nr. 7 Es-Dur BWV 852
2’08”
15 Präludium Nr. 8 es-Moll BWV 853
3’59”
16 Fuge Nr. 8 dis-Moll BWV 853
5’48”
17 Präludium Nr. 9 E-Dur BWV 854
1’57”
18 Fuge Nr. 9 E-Dur BWV 854
1’21”
19 Präludium Nr. 10 e-Moll BWV 855
1’21”
20 Fuge Nr. 10 e-Moll BWV 855
1’19”
21 Präludium Nr.11 F-Dur BWV 856
1’01”
22 Fuge Nr. 11 F-Dur BWV 856
1’20”
23 Präludium Nr. 12 f-Moll BWV 857
2’04”
24 Fuge Nr. 12 f-Moll BWV 857
4’39”
Total Time: 59’15”
CD 2
1 Präludium Nr. 13 Fis-Dur BWV 858
1’39”
2 Fuge Nr. 13 Fis-Dur BWV 858
2’49”
3 Präludium Nr. 14 fis-Moll BWV 859
1’05”
4 Fuge Nr. 14 fis-Moll BWV 859
4’20”
5 Präludium Nr. 15 G-Dur BWV 860
0’56”
6 Fuge Nr. 15 G-Dur BWV 860
3’03”
7 Präludium Nr. 16 g-Moll BWV 861
1’35”
8 Fuge Nr. 16 g-Moll BWV 861
2’10”
9 Präludium Nr. 17 As-Dur BWV 862
1’21”
10 Fuge Nr. 17 As-Dur BWV 862
2’55”
11 Präludium Nr. 18 gis-Moll BWV 863
1’24”
12 Fuge Nr. 18 gis-Moll BWV 863
3’05”
13 Präludium Nr. 19 A-Dur BWV 864
1’36”
14 Fuge Nr. 19 A-Dur BWV 864
2’40”
15 Präludium Nr. 20 a-Moll BWV 865
1’07”
16 Fuge Nr. 20 a-Moll BWV 865
4’26”
17 Präludium Nr. 21 B-Dur BWV 866
1’23”
18 Fuge Nr. 21 B-Dur BWV 866
1’44”
19 Präludium Nr. 22b-Moll BWV 867
2’26”
20 Fuge Nr. 22 b-Moll BWV 867
3’09”
21 Präludium Nr 23, H-Dur BWV 868
1’19”
22 Fuge Nr. 23 H-Dur BWV 868
2’44”
23 Präludium Nr. 24 h-Moll BWV 869
5’34”
24 Fuge Nr. 24 h-Moll BWV 869
8’47”
Total Time: 60’41”
Johann Sebastian Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II, BWV 870-893 (3 CDs, Complete Edition) (19921-2)
CD 1
1 Präludium Nr. 1 C-Dur BWV 870
2’32”
2 Fuge Nr. 1 C-Dur BWV 870
2’01”
3 Präludium Nr. 2 c-Moll BWV 871
2’30”
4 Fuge Nr. 2 c-Moll BWV 871
2’14”
5 Präludium Nr. 3 Cis-Dur BWV 872
1’36”
6 Fuge Nr. 3 Cis-Dur BWV 872
1’55”
7 Präludium Nr. 4 cis-Moll BWV 873
4’27”
8 Fuge Nr. 4 cis-Moll BWV 873
2’13”
9 Präludium Nr. 5 D-Dur BWV 874
5’45”
10 Fuge Nr. 5 D-Dur BWV 874
3’12”
11 Präludium Nr. 6 d-Moll BWV 875
1’43”
12 Fuge Nr. 6 d-Moll BWV 875
1’57”
13 Präludium Nr. 7 Es-Dur BWV 876
2’35”
14 Fuge Nr. 7 Es-Dur BWV 876
2’28”
15 Präludium Nr. 8 es-Moll BWV 877
4’28”
16 Fuge Nr. 8 dis-Moll BWV 877
4’20”
Total Time: 46’53”
CD 2
1 Präludium Nr. 9 E-Dur BWV 878
5’28”
2 Fuge Nr. 9 E-Dur BWV 878
3’02”
3 Präludium Nr. 10 e-Moll BWV 879
5’05”
4 Fuge Nr. 10 e-Moll BWV 879
3’07”
5 Präludium Nr. 11 F-Dur BWV 880
3’07”
6 Fuge Nr. 11 F-Dur BWV 880
1’53”
7 Präludium Nr. 12 f-Moll BWV 881
4’48”
8 Fuge Nr. 12 f-Moll BWV 881
2’05”
9 Präludium Nr. 13 Fis-Dur BWV 882
3’47”
10 Fuge Nr. 13 Fis-Dur BWV 882
3’52”
11 Präludium Nr. 14 fis-Moll BWV 883
3’52”
12 Fuge Nr. 14 fis-Moll BWV 883
4’59”
13 Präludium Nr. 15 G-Dur BWV 884
2’47”
14 Fuge Nr. 15 G-Dur BWV 884
1’27”
15 Präludium Nr. 16 g-Moll BWV 885
2’43”
16 Fuge Nr. 16 g-Moll BWV 885
3’22”
Total Time: 56’23”
CD 3
1 Präludium Nr. 17 As-Dur BWV 886
3’59”
2 Fuge Nr. 17 As-Dur BWV 886
2’50”
3 Präludium Nr. 18 gis-Moll BWV 887
5’37”
4 Fuge Nr. 18 gis-Moll BWV 887
5’13”
5 Präludium Nr. 19 A-Dur BWV 888
1’58”
6 Fuge Nr. 19 A-Dur BWV 888
1’17”
7 Präludium Nr. 20 a-Moll BWV 889
4’30”
8 Fuge Nr. 20 a-Moll BWV 889
1’48”
9 Präludium Nr. 21 B-Dur BWV 890
8’43”
10 Fuge Nr. 21 B-Dur BWV 890
3’11”
11 Präludium Nr. 22 b-Moll BWV 891
2’38”
12 Fuge Nr. 22 b-Moll BWV 891
4’17”
13 Präludium Nr. 23 H-Dur BWV 892
2’12”
14 Fuge Nr. 23 H-Dur BWV 892
3’12”
15 Präludium Nr. 24 h-Moll BWV 893
2’24”
16 Fuge Nr. 24 h-Moll BWV 893
1’52”
Total Time: 56’44”
Fryderyk Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 F-minor Op. 21 (1829/30)
(Original Version for Piano and String Quartet)
1 Maestoso 15’50”
2 Larghetto 11’15”
3 Allegro Vivace 9’17”
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Quartet in C-major, WoO 36, No. 3 (1785)
4 Allegro Vivace 10’23”
5 Adagio con Espressione 8’09”
6 Allegro 4’03”
Total Time: 59’08”
Préludes premier livre
1 Danseuses de Delphes
Lent et grave 3’29”
2 Voiles
Modéré 4’11”
3 Le vent dans la plaine
Animé 2’19”
4 Les sons et les parfums tourent dans l’air du soir
Modéré 3’26”
5 Les collines d’A'anacapri
Très modéré 3’14”
6 Des pas sure la neige
Triste et lent 4’32”
7 Ce qu’a a vu le vent d’ouest
Animé et tumultueux 4’41”
8 La fille aux cheveux de lin
Très calme et doucement expressif 2’22”
9 La serenade interrompue
Modérément animé 3’24”
10 La cathédrale engloutie
Profondément calme 7’22”
11 La danse de Puck
Capricieux et léger 2’30”
12 Minstrels
Modéré 2’53”
Préludes deuxiéme livre
13 Brouillards
Modéré 2’46”
14 Feuilles mortes
Lent et mélancolique 2’33”
15 La Puerta del Vino
Mouvement de Habanera 3’14”
16 Les Fées sont d’exquises danseuses
Rapide et léger 2’49”
17 Bruyères
Calme, doucement expressif 2’25”
18 Général Lavine - eccentric
Dans le style et le mouvement d’un Cakewalk 2’26”
19 La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune
Lent 4’05”
20 Ondine
Scherzando 3’15”
21 Hommage à S. Pickwick Esq. P.P.M.P.C.
Grave 2’29”
22 Canope
Très calme et doucement triste 2’58”
23 Les tierces alternées
Modérément animé 2’46”
24 Feux d’artifice
Modérément animé 4’21”
Total Time: 79’43”
tracklist
Disk 1
Trois Nocturnes Opus 9 (1832)
1 B flat minor 6’07”
2 E flat major 6’15”
3 B major 6’34”
Trois Nocturnes Opus 15 (1833)
4 F major 5’07”
5 F sharp major 3’44”
6 G minor 5’56”
Deux Nocturnes Opus 27 (1836)
7 C sharp minor 5’30”
8 D flat major 6’29”
Deux Nocturnes Opus 32 (1837)
9 B major 5’49”
10 A flat major 5’59”
Total Time: 58’17”
Disk 2
Deux Nocturnes Opus 37 (1840)
1 G minor 7’32”
2 G major 7’09”
Deux Nocturnes Opus 48 (1841)
3 C minor 6’27”
4 F sharp minor 7’37”
Deux Nocturnes Opus 55 (1844)
5 F minor 5’07”
6 E flat major 5’14”
Deux Nocturnes Opus 62 (1846)
7 B major 8’41”
8 E major 6’15”
9 Nocturne Opus post. (1827?)
E minor 4’01”
10 Lento con gran espressione
[Nocturne] Opus post. (1830)
C sharp minor 4’08”
11 Nocturne Opus post. (1847/8)
C minor 2’49”
Total Time: 65’55”
http://musikansich.de/ausgaben/1006/reviews/a_chopin.html
English Translation:
Musik an sich…October 2006, by Sven Kerkhoff
PHANTASTIC
If only all pauses could be so productive! The, by now, 63 year old pianist Roger Woodward has returned to the music scene after a 5 year pause in his creativity and has come up with the complete recording of Chopin’s Nocturnes which is equal to none. Woodward is primarily known through his interpretations of contemporary music: Takemitsu, Feldman, Pärt, Xenakis and others. The fruits of this intensive occupation with different realms and hues of sound are also influencing his interpretation of the Nocturnes.
Woodward approaches them with great gentleness so that the playing times of the individual pieces lie clearly above that of other interpreters. Virtuosic tinkering with the keyboard is foreign to him. His concentrated interpretation is well thought out, now and then pensive and contains embellishments of astonishing yet never conceited liberties.
The pianist demonstrates how strongly and in what breathtakingly modern way Chopin has worked with and at sound colours. The recording proves, moreover, that the breadth of the colour palette does not depend on the choice of an (historically correct) instrument. Although everything sounds lighter on a Steinway than, for example, on the fortepiano (compare the recording with Baart van Oort) this does not essentially influence the overall impression.
With Woodward this lighter tonality does not lead at all to a lighter result. On the contrary, his playing is melancholic in a startling way, fathoms precipices to the utmost depth and blocks any possible escape via dazzling hollow phrases. There is a question mark behind all. The ethereal sound constructions arise like phantastic dreamscapes - and dissolve like them. But those landscapes are of such ravishing beauty and the farewell from these never tangible constructions so painful that one has to continually catch one’s breath.. Whoever could not, until now, marvel at or cry over Chopin will learn it here.
Producer and sound recorder Ulrich Kraus has sympathetically captured this exceptional interpretative achievement and been alert to every mood of the instrument.
Unconditional recommendation! 20
Recent Commentary: (with English translation below)
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Fryderyk Chopin. The Complete Nocturnes
Roger Woodward
Celestial Harmonies
Naxos Deutschland
14260-2
7869
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um 15.05 Uhr (Erste Pos.):
Über das australische Musikleben weiß man in Europa nicht allzu viel, trotz einiger bekannter Namen wie dem der Intendantin der Hamburgischen Staatsoper Simone Young, des Gitarristen John Williams oder der Sopranistin Joan Sutherland. Zu dieser ersten Generation australischer Musiker, denen eine Weltkarriere gelang, gehört auch der inzwischen 63-jährige Pianist Roger Woodward. Nach 5-jähriger Kreativpause hat er jetzt bei dem amerikanischen Label “Celestial Harmonies” eine Gesamteinspielung der Nocturnes von Frederik Chopin herausgebracht. Woodward spielt diese den meisten Hörern klassischer Musik wohlvertraute Musik auf eine zugegebener Maßen recht eigenwillige Weise. Seine Interpretation wird manchem vielleicht sogar schon als ein wenig gewagt erscheinen; gleichwohl aber ist sie originell und rührt aus einer jahrzehntelangen tiefernsten Beschäftigung mit dieser Musik. In stiller Zurückgenommenheit sucht hier ein gereifter Musiker das esentliche und interpretiert die Chopinschen Nachtgesänge auf seine ganz eigene Art. Hören Sie Roger Woodward mit dem Nocturne in F-Dur op. 15 Nr. 1
1 5’07 6 151 528 104 0 Trois Nocturnes Opus 15: F major
Roger Woodward spielte das Nocturne in F-Dur aus opus 15 von Frederik Chopin. Seit drei Jahren ist der australische Pianist Professor für Klavier an der San Francisco State University. Ausgebildet wurde er in seinem Heimatland von dem Rachmaninow-Schüler Alexander Svertensky. Während seines späteren Studiums in Warschau war kein Geringerer als Svjatoslav Richter sein Mentor. In den 70er Jahren machte Woodward sich einen Namen als Interpret von Neuer Musik. So hat er das gesamte Klavierwerk des japanischen Komponisten Toru Takemitsu eingespielt. Woodwards Interpretationen der Chopinschen Nocturnes klingen reif und bgeklärt. Er arbeitet mit ungewohnten Betonungen und setzt interessante, oft überraschende Akzente. Auf Effektmittel wie
Verzögerungen oder Rubati verzichtet er ganz. Von dem Klangzauber oder gar dem Virtuosentum eines Artur Rubinstein, in dem Woodward sein historisches Vorbild sieht, ist das schon weit entfernt. Genauso wie von dem eleganten Spielfluss, wie er auf Mauricio Pollinis im vergangenen Jahr erschienenen Einspielung zu hören war. Am nächsten kommt Woodward vielleicht der in sich gekehrten Versunkenheit, mit der die Kanadierin Angela Hewitt vor zwei Jahren die Chopin-Nocturnes eingespielt hat.
Woodward geht mit einem eher direkten und trockenen und dabei sehr klaren Anschlag zu Werke. Vor allem aber lässt er sich sehr viel Zeit. Wo Pollini oder Rubinstein 4 Minuten auf ein Nocturne verwenden, benötigt Woodward sechs. Er scheint die Musik gleichsam anzuhalten, um so ihre Feinheiten hörbar zu machen. Mit dieser Akzentverschiebung auf die musikalischen Einzelereignisse öffnet Woodward dem Hörer die Ohren für Dinge, die sonst im Fluss der Musik verborgen bleiben oder gar verloren gehen können. So etwa im Nocturne in g-moll aus opus 37.
2 7’32 6 151 528 201 0 Deux Nocturnes Opus 37: G minor
Unter den Fingern von Roger Woodward erklingt Chopins Nocturne in g-moll op. 37 Nr. 1 in ganz ungewohnten Farben. Im Booklet seiner CD spricht Woodward von einer immer wieder möglichen Neuentdeckung der Chopinschen Nocturnes. “Egal, wie oft man sie spielt”, sagt er, “sie werden immer anders klingen, als wären sie ein anderes Stück”. Sicher ist das auch einer der Gründe, weshalb Woodwards Vorbild Artur Rubinstein die Nocturnes sogar gleich dreimal in seiner Laufbahn aufgenommen hat. Woodwards Einspielung entstand in sorgfältiger Feinabstimmung mit dem Produzenten Ulrich Kraus, in dessen zurückgezogenem Tonstudio am Wörthsee nahe München die Aufnahmen stattfanden. Die subtil ausgehörten Klänge, die Woodward einem Hamburg Steinway D mit Elfenbeintasten entlockt, verbindet Ulrich Kraus mit einer entsprechend klaren Mikrofonierung. Interpret und Produzent ermöglichen dem Hörer, in einer wohlvertrauten Musik noch einmal Neues zu entdeckten. So gesehen ist der Slogan, den das Label der Doppel-CD in seinem Katalog verpasst hat, sicherlich zutreffend: Roger Woodwards Interpretation der Chopinschen Nocturnes, so heißt es dort, sei eine “besondere Aufnahme”. Ob das zutrifft, können Sie jetzt noch einmal überprüfen anhand des vermutlich bekanntesten Chopinschen Nocturne in Es-Dur aus opus 9.
3 6’15 6 151 528 102 0 Trois Nocturnes Opus 9: E flat major
18’54 Musik-Gesamtzeit CD-Tipp
Langsam aber vollkommen sicher geht auch der letzte Ausschnitt von unserem heutigen CD-Tipp zu Ende. Der Australier Roger Woodward spielte das Nocturne in Es-Dur op. 9 Nr. 2 von Frederik Chopin. Erschienen ist die Gesamteinspielung der Nocturnes mit Roger Woodward bei dem amerikanischen Label “Celestial Harmonies”. Ergänzt wird die Aufnahme von einem hervorragenden mehrseitigen Booklettext, der auf ein Gespräch mit Roger Woodward zurückgeht und spannend sowie detailreich in das musikalische Denken des Interpreten einführt.
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CD tip for Klassik-Zeit (Classic time)
Thursday, 21/09/2006
Edited: Gisela Walter
Hardly anything is known in Europe about the musical life in Australia despite some well known names like the director of the Hamburg State Opera Simone Young, the guitarist John Williams and the soprano Joan Sutherland. Roger Woodward belongs to this first generation of Australian musicians who achieved world renown. He has now issued the complete recording of Fryderyk Chopin’s Nocturnes on the American label Celestial Harmonies. Admittedly Woodward plays these familiar pieces in a very individual way. Some people night find his interpretation even a bit daring: nevertheless it is based on decades of serious contemplation of this music. In quiet introversion a mature musician is searching here for the essence of the work and interprets Chopin’s Nightsongs in his very own way. Please listen to Roger Woodward playing Nocturne in F-major op. 15,no1
Roger Woodward played the nocturne in F-major from op.15 by Fryderyk Chopin. For the past three years the Australian pianist has been professor of piano at the San Francisco State University. In his homeland he studied with the Rachnaninov pupil Alexander Sverjensky. During his later studies in Warsaw no other than Sviatoslav Richter became his mentor. During the 1970s Woodward made his name as interpreter/performer of the Avant Garde. He has, for instance, recorded the complete piano music of the Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu.
Woodward’s interpretations of Chopin’s nocturnes are mature and mellow. He provides unusual stresses and surprising accents. He completely avoids special effects or rubati. His version is far removed from the bewitching sound or even the virtuosity of Artur Rubinstein who Woodward considers his historical model as well as from the elegantly flowing recording which Mauricio Pollini published last year. Woodward’s is perhaps closest to the quiet contemplation which the Canadian Angela Hewitt showed two years ago in her recording of the Chopin Nocturnes.
Woodward skilfully goes about his ‘work’ with a rather direct and dry yet very clear touch, taking his time. While Pollini or Rubinstein use four minutes to play a nocturne Woodward takes six. He seems to be able to seemingly stop the music in order to make its subtlety audible. With his shift of accents onto individual musical happenings Woodward makes the listeners’ ears receptive to things which normally remain hidden or even disappear in the flow of the music.
Take for example the nocturne g-minor from opus 37. Under the hands of Roger Woodward the Chopin Nocturne in g-minor op.37, no1 resounds with quite unfamiliar coloration. In the booklet to his CD Woodward speaks about the potential of a continuing rediscovery of the nocturnes. “No matter how often one plays them”, he said,” they will always sound different as if they were a totally different piece of music”. This might surely be the reason why Artur Rubinstein, Woodward’s example, has recorded them three times during his career.
Woodward’s recording was produced by Ulrich Kraus in his reclusive sound studio at the Wörthsee near Munich.
The subtly fading sounds which Woodward draws out of a Hamburg Steinway D with ivory keys are caught by Ulrich Kraus with correspondingly clear recording. In this way the performer and the producer make it possible for the listener to discover new elements in this well known music. With this in mind the slogan which Celestial Harmonies has given to this double CD in their catalogue seems certainly appropriate. It describes Roger Woodward’s interpretation of Chopin’s Nocturnes as a “special recording”. You might like to determine if this is the case while listening to the probably best known Nocturne in E-flat major op.9 . Slowly but perfectly assured the last part of today’s CD-tip comes to an end. The Australian Roger Woodward played the Nocturne in E-flat major op.9, no 2 by Fryderyk Chopin.
The complete recording has been issued by the American label Celestial Harmonies. It is supplemented by an exceptional multi-paged booklet which is based on an interview with Roger Woodward and which introduces the musical thinking of the performer in a fascinating and detailed way.
“Roger Woodward comprehends Chopin’s Nocturnes in all their expressive variety. Painstakingly, Woodward displays the motifs, the nuances, which make Chopin’s music so interesting… Artur Rubinstein once called the young Woodward one of the best Chopin pianists of the present time. This judgement is still valid today.” Antje Hinz, NDR (North German Radio), 10 June 2006.
Click on the link below for OzArts review:
Neville Cohen, OzArts Review, Australia
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BACH FOR THE 21st CENTURY
Roger Woodward presents the most exciting Bach since Glenn Gould
BWV Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue d minor
BWV 826 Partita No. 2 c minor
BWV 830 Partita No. 6 e minor
Roger Woodward surprised some by including Bach in his concert performance of Debussy and Chopin at the Radio Bremen concert hall in January 2007. Woodward simply explained that to him Bach was a romantic composer as well. This only sounds daring until one has listened to the recording at hand. And one should also remember that Friedrich Blume, in the authoritative German music dictionary MGG, wrote more than half a century ago that “Bach’s language anticipated much which was later expressed during the German Romantic era”.
This is Woodward’s first recording of works by J.S. Bach although he had played Bach all his life. As one can expect from a musician of Woodward’s calibre this is an interpretation outside the square.
Already in the first part, the Fantasia from BWV 903 - composed in Coethen around 1720 - a deep understanding is shown of what might have caused Bach to place this ‘free’ section ahead of the Fugue. Woodward plays the Fantasia as such. In the ensuing Fugue Woodward shows his complete understanding of the structure, takes all those liberties, however, which Bach had always expected of himself as well as of all performers of his music.
The Partitas No. 2 in c minor BWV 826 and No. 6 in e minor BWV 830 might also go back to the time in Coethen around 1720, chronologically not far removed from the Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in d minor BWV 903; they originate from Bach’s most productive stage in his life as far as secular music is concerned, and they show the composer at the height of his creative power. Bach published them himself in Leipzig in 1726.
It illuminates Woodward’s interpretation that he takes three minutes more for the Partita No. 6 on the recording compared to his concert performance. It is a more deliberate, circumspect and more thought-through version revealing fine details which possibly cannot come across in a concert hall compared to the intimacy of the recording studio
Woodward’s recording was produced in Wörthsee, Bavaria, on the same Hamburg Steinway D which he had used for his Chopin Nocturnes (Celestial Harmonies 14260-2). By now he knew the instrument well and felt totally familiar with it.
Of the producer and engineer Ulrich Kraus Woodward remarks that he is a musician rather than a technician; a friendship links musician and engineer who by now have not only co-operated in the recording of Chopin but also in that of the large cycle ‘Of the Sound of Life’ by Peter Michael Hamel (Celestial Harmonies 13256-2).
Woodward speaks with the greatest respect of the interpretations of the past - George Malcolm, Helmut Walcha, Gustav Leonhardt to name just a few. Nevertheless he goes further and beyond anything that might be considered orthodox or conservative. But this is an organically continuing development which uses and incorporates all the possibilities that a first-rate modern instrument has to offer, just as Bach would have done if the available technology in his lifetime had allowed him. From that point of view Woodward continues what Glenn Gould started in the sixties and Alexis Weissenberg continued in the seventies: to understand Bach as an ever-new, always contemporary composer whose unequalled greatness manifests itself in the endless possibilities of an ever-new understanding.
BACH FÜR DAS 21. JAHRHUNDERT
Roger Woodward reüssiert mit dem aufregendsten Bach seit Glenn Gould
BWV 903 Chromatische Fantasie und Fuge d-moll
BWV 826 Partita Nr. 2 c-moll
BWV 830 Partita Nr. 6 e-moll
Als Woodward Anfang 2007 unmittelbar vor der Aufnahme dieser CD bei Radio Bremen Chopin, Debussy und Bach in sein Konzertprogramm aufnahm, waren einige überrascht. Zur Erklärung sagte er nur, für ihn sei Bach eben auch ein romantischer und impressionistischer Komponist. Das klingt nur solange gewagt, bis man die vorliegende Einspielung gehört hat. Und man sollte dabei in Erinnerung behalten, daß Friedrich Blume in MGG schon vor über einem halben Jahrhundert schrieb, daß „Bachs Sprache über die Zeit vorausgegriffen [hat] auf das, was in der deutschen Romantik zum Ausdruck gekommen ist”.
Dies ist die erste Veröffentlichung Woodwards mit Werken von J.S. Bach; und das, obwohl Woodward stets Bach gespielt hatte, ein Leben lang. Wie bei einem Musiker vom Range Woodwards nicht anders zu erwarten, ist es eine Interpretation außerhalb der Schablone.
Schon der erste Teil, die Fantasie, aus BWV 903 – entstanden in Cöthen um 1720 - zeigt ein tiefes Verständnis dessen, was Bach wohl animiert haben mag, diese ,freie’ Werk der Fuge voranzustellen; Woodward spielt die Fantasie eben als solche. Bei der Fuge zeigt Woodward sein vollkommenes Verständnis der Struktur, nimmt sich hingegen alle diese Freiheiten, die Bach schon immer sowohl von sich selbst als auch von seinen Interpreten erwartete.
Die Partiten Nr. 2 c-moll BWV 826 und Nr. 6 e-moll BWV 830 gehen wohl auch auf die Zeit um 1720 in Cöthen zurück, zeitlich nicht weit entfernt von der Chromatischen Fantasie und Fuge d-moll BWV 903; sie stammen aus Bachs wohl produktivstem Lebensabschnitt, was weltliche Musik angeht, und zeigen den Komponisten auf der Höhe seiner kreativen Schaffenskraft. Bach veröffentlichte sie um 1726 in Leipzig im Selbstverlag.
Erkenntnisreich für das Verständnis Woodwardscher Interpretation ist die Tatsache, daß er für die Partita Nr. 6 im Studio ganze 3 Minuten länger braucht als im Konzert. Es ist eine tiefere, bedächtigere, durchdachte Version, in der sich Details zeigen, die im Konzertsaal vielleicht nicht hörbar oder in angemessener Form vermittelbar wären.
Woodwards Produktion entstand im Januar 2007 im bayerischen Wörthsee auf eben dem Steinway D, den Woodward bei seiner 2006 entstandenen Aufnahme der Chopin-Nocturnes (Celestial Harmonies 14260-2) benutzt hatte; inzwischen fühlte sich Woodward mit dem Instrument total vertraut, wenn nicht heimisch.
Über den Produzenten und Tonmeister Ulrich Kraus sagt Woodward, er sei ein Musiker, kein Ingenieur; eine Freundschaft verbindet Musiker und Tonmeister, die inzwischen nicht nur bei Chopin, sondern auch bei der Einspielung des großen Zyklus Vom Klang des Lebens von Peter Michael Hamel (Celestial Harmonies 13256-2) zusammengearbeitet hatten.
Woodward spricht mit größtem Respekt von den Interpretationen der Vergangenheit, George Malcolm, Helmut Walcha, Gustav Leonhardt, um nur einige zu nennen. Dennoch geht er in seinen Bach-Interpretationen weit über alles hinaus, was als orthodox oder konservativ gelten könnte. Aber es ist eine organische Weiterentwicklung, die alle Möglichkeiten eines erstklassigen zeitgenössischen Instruments berücksichtigt und einbezieht, so wie es wohl auch Bach getan hätte, wenn es zu seinen Lebzeiten die existierende Technologie erlaubt hätte. Insofern führt Woodward das fort, was Glenn Gould in den 60er und Alexis Weissenberg in den 70er Jahren begonnen hatten: Bach als immer neuen, immer zeitgenössischen Komponisten zu verstehen, dessen unerreichte Größe sich eben in den stets unendlich vielfachen, immer neu erscheinenden Interpretationsmöglichkeiten dokumentiert.
BBC Review Roger Woodward, July 2007
the project
“One can’t learn Otte’s music by practicing it but only by reflecting over it as it’s philosophy.” Roger Woodward
It is fitting that Hans Otte’s STUNDENBUCH / BOOK OF HOURS, recorded by pianist Roger Woodward on a Bösendorfer at the Radio Bremen concert hall, is a co-production between Celestial Harmonies and Radio Bremen. The piece was commissioned by Radio Bremen for its Pro Musica nova 1996, the highly regarded biennial festival for contemporary music founded (in 1961) and directed (from 1962) by Hans Otte, during his tenure as Head of Music at Radio Bremen (1959 to 1984). Through this festival, Otte had opened doors to countless composers, had given opportunites to realise ideas and concepts, and had helped composers such as John Cage, David Tudor, La Monte Young, Nam June Paik, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Mauricio Kagel, György Ligeti and Dieter Schnebel.
Quoting from Hans Otte’s programme notes for the Pro Musica nova 1996, “Since 1991 I have once again been working on a large cycle for piano. There can be no better challenge for any composer than writing for this instrument, which has been so closely involved in developing the new musical languages of this century.
“Music is about listening’, as Rauschenberg once said, and it is important for any composer of today to learn from the great artists of the century. As Matisse and Picasso began to eliminate the duality of pictorial space, and Jasper Johns and Rauschenberg continued fifty years later, the change in art toward independent moments of visual perception, where every glance is the present, became clear. And in music it is quite similar, where a non-dualistic experience and conception can offer the listener the freedom of every moment, the liberation from recollection or expectation. In my Stundenbuch I have attempted to follow this path. The whole cycle consists of smaller and larger pieces that follow each other without interuption.”
Writes pianist Roger Woodward, “In the closing years of the twentieth century, perhaps it comes as no surprise that the Bremen pianist-composer, Hans Otte, disciple of the visionaries Walter Gieseking and John Cage, emerges as the unsurpassed master of the sublime, lyric poetry with his composition of a true masterpiece in moment form for piano entitled STUNDENBUCH / BOOK OF HOURS.
“In a universe of exalted, fragmented but delicately-balanced sonorities, the audacious design of time-suspended galaxies in Otte’s highly-intimate, miniature-art and enigmatic but constant shift of movement and mood, form four books in twelve parts each, to span a golden arc extending from prima and seconda prattica to the sonnets of Shakespeare; divine melodic genius of Mozart; inscrutable logic of late-Beethoven; Elysian fields of Schubertian Ländler and Chopinian cantilena of the Nocturnes, in poetic homage and as an inclusive part of his magnificent North-German inheritance.”
Review Roger Woodward, July 2007
the project
A co-production between Celestial Harmonies and Bayerischer Rundfunk, VOM KLANG DES LEBENS / OF THE SOUND OF LIFE features pianist Roger Woodward on a Steinway model D, playing Peter Michael Hamel’s cycle of works composed for and dedicated to his wife and new son. The producer/engineer for the recording sessions in January 2006 was Ulrich Kraus.
Long before he discerns the light of the world, still in the womb, nascent man begins to sense the sounds of life. Long before his spirit attempts to differentiate experiences, develop ideas or make his mark on the path of history, he begins to hear the force that creation determined for us.
The French doctor Alfred A. Tomatis was able to demonstrate that the sense of hearing is already fully developed in the fifth month of pregnancy. The sound of his mother’s voice, the music that accompanies her and the notes that could harmonize with his own personal sounds, all are experienced by the ear while still bathing in the Amniotic fluid. Passionately devoted to all that sound has ever meant to man, the already multiple father accompanied the latest pregnancy of his wife in the early 90s in more than one sense—Peter Michael Hamel, an excellent improviser and interpreter at the keyboard, played the piano. He had always delighted in creating metrically complex pulsating rhythms, as if this gift were given to him from the start. In this manner he journeyed into his subconscious, demonstrating, to the joy of the mother and the growing empathy of the yet unborn child, the music of our world.
Hamel extemporized and begun to write down short passages: private notes, day by day, month by month new tonal discoveries, revealing the experiences and ambitions of his own life story. Some of these ideas—a melody, a turn of phrase—found themselves represented in several pieces. The final embodiment of the music was to be a group of twelve meaningfully arranged studies for piano. Composed over a period of fourteen years, between 1992 and 2006, the cycle can be understood as an idealized diary, embodying central motifs from Hamel’s understanding of himself as a person and an artist.
The order of the pieces and the general structure of the cycle VOM KLANG DES LEBENS / OF THE SOUND OF LIFE were only determined by Hamel quite late. Two almost identical pieces dedicated to John Cage frame the work: Arrival and Departure, between which are works dedicated to Alfred A. Tomatis, Miles Davis, Morton Feldman, Walter Bachauer, Dane Rudhyar, Pandit Patekar, Olivier Messiaen, Giacinto Scelsi, Iannis Xenakis, and his son, Johann David Antonin.
The framework of the whole cycle is a multicultural place of action and of possibilities. Life, and all its sounds are represented symbolically, and new growth can always begin. Maybe that is what Peter Michael Hamel was thinking when he improvised for mother and child: “Primal trust for all.”
Disc 1
String Quartet 1 in C Major, Op 49 (1938)
String Quartet 2 in A Major, Op 68 (1944)
String Quartet 4 in D Major, Op.83(1949)
Disc 2
String Quartet 3 in F Major, Op 73 (1946)
Piano Quintet in G Minor, Op 57 (1940)
Prelude & Fugue in C Minor, Op 87 No 20 (1950-51)
Disc 3
String Quartet 5 in B-flat Major, Op 92 (1952)
String Quartet 6 in G Major, Op 101 (1956)
String Quartet 7 in F-sharp Minor, Op 108 (1960)
Prelude & Fugure in D-flat Major, Op 87 No 15 (1950-51)
Piano Concerto and Works for Solo Piano
with Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Edo de Waart
2 CD set
Total Playing Time 79’02”
1999 ABC Classics
Roger Woodward & Ralph Lane would like to dedicate this recording to the memory of John Rocks, piano technician extraordinaire and good friend (1932-1999)
TRACK LISTING
CD 1
• 3 Pièces Op 2
Etude
Prélude
Impromptu à la Mazur
• 2 Nocturnes, Op 5
No 1 (F-sharp minor)
No 2 (A major)
• 5 Préludes Op 16
Andante (B major)
Allegro (G-sharp minor)
Andante cantabile (G flat major)
Lento (E flat minor)
Allegretto (F sharp major)
• Piano Concerto in F-sharp minor, Op 20 With Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Edo de Waart
Allegro
Andante
Allegro Moderato
• 2 Poèmes, Op 32
No 1 (F sharp major)
No 2 (D major)
• Waltz in A flat major, Op. 38
• 8 Etudes, Op 42
• 3 Morceaux, Op. 52
Poème
Enigme
Poème languide
• 2 Pièces, Op 57
Désir
Caresse dansée
• Feuillet d’Album, Op. 58
Total playing time 79’56”
CD 2
• 2 Pièces Op 59
Poème
Prélude
• 2 Danses, Op 73
Guirlandes
Flammes sombres
• 5 Préludes, Op 74
Dolourexu, déchirant
Très lent, contemplatif
Allegro drammatico
Lent, vague, indécis
Fier, belliqueux
• Vers la flamme, Op.72
• Sonata No 10 Op 70
• 2 Poèmes, Op 71
Fantastique
En rêvant, avec une grande douceur
• 2 Poèmes, Op 69
Allegretto
Allegretto
• 2 Préludes, Op 67
Andante
Presto
• 2 Poèmes, Op 63
Masque
Etrangeté
• Poème-nocturne, Op 61
• Sonata No 6 Op 62
• 3 Etudes, Op 65
Allegro fantastico
Allegretto
Molto Vivace
Executive Producers Robert Patterson & Lyle Chan
Recording Producer Ralph Lane
Recording Engineer Allan MacLean
Reviews:
click on text for link to review http://www.musicweb-international.com
William Hedley : No praise is too high for Roger Woodward’s playing of this repertoire… Anyone seriously interested in investigating Scriabin’s piano music couldn’t do better than invest in Roger Woodward’s marvellous two disc set.
The Roger Woodward Edition - 7 CD set.
Re-release by ABC Classics 476 8781
The Chopin Album - 2 CDs
476 8782
Nocturnes, mazurkas, waltzes, preludes, etudes and more. Double CD includes the Raindrop Prelude, Military Polonaise and Fantaisie-Impromptu.
Cinema Paradiso - 2CDs
476 8785
Music from the silver screen, including themes from The Godfather, Casablanca, Love Story, Dr Zhivago, The Man from Snowy River, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Schindler’s List, Cinema Paradiso and more.
Little Masterpieces - 2 CDs
476 8788
Bach to Bartok, Mozart to Scott Joplin. Beethoven’s Fur Elise, Preludes by Debussy, The Swan from Carnival of the Animals, with music by Brahms, Elgar, Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky, Liszt, Schubert and Grieg.
Lullabies
4767 8791
Cradle songs by Tchaikovsky, Faure, Brahms, Schumann and many more.
Available from the ABC Classics (Sydney Australia) and selected stores
In January 2006, Roger began a series of new recordings for Celestial Harmonies.
http://www.harmonies.com
celestial@harmonies.com
13280-2 JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: CHROMATIC FANTASIA & FUGUE BWV 903, PARTITA NO. 2 BWV 826, PARTITA NO 6 BWV 830 - ROGER WOODWARD, PIANO (.pdf ENGLISH) (.pdf GERMAN), released September 2007
http://www.blacksun.com/releases/13280.htm
http://www.rogerwoodward.com/index.php/discography/P10/
13259-2 STUNDENBUCH / BOOK OF HOURS - COMPOSED BY HANS OTTE / ROGER WOODWARD, PIANO (.pdf) BBC Review Roger Woodward, July 2007
http://www.blacksun.com/releases/13259.htm
http://www.rogerwoodward.com/index.php/discography/P10/
13259-5 HANS OTTE: STUNDENBUCH / BOOK OF HOURS (1 CD PLUS POCKET SCORE) - ROGER WOODWARD, PIANO
http://www.blacksun.com/releases/13259-5.htm
http://www.rogerwoodward.com/index.php/discography/P10/
13256-2 VOM KLANG DES LEBENS / OF THE SOUND OF LIFE - COMPOSED BY PETER MICHAEL HAMEL / ROGER WOODWARD, PIANO (.pdf) BBC Review Roger Woodward, July 2007
http://www.blacksun.com/releases/13256.htm
http://www.rogerwoodward.com/index.php/discography/P20/
13256-5 PETER MICHAEL HAMEL: VOM KLANG DES LEBENS / OF THE SOUND OF LIFE (1 CD PLUS POCKET SCORE) - ROGER WOODWARD, PIANO
http://www.blacksun.com/releases/13256-5.htm
14260 FRYDERYK CHOPIN: THE COMPLETE NOCTURNES (2 CD) - ROGER WOODWARD (.pdf) BBC Review Roger Woodward, July 2007
http://www.blacksun.com/releases/14260.htm
http://www.rogerwoodward.com/index.php/discography/P10/
Future recording plans for Celestial Harmonies:
October 2006, Chopin 2nd Piano Concerto in F minor Op.21 with the Alexander String Quartet
January 2007, Debussy Preludes Books I and II (Bremen)
March 2006
Shostakovich Piano Quintet with the Alexander String Quartet on Foghorn Classics, CD1988 (see discography)
http://www.FoghornClassics.com
http://www.ASQ4.com
Piano and Orchestra CPO 999 483-2
with Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken, Hans Zender
Total playing time 48’00”
1997 – Saarlandischer Rundfunk
Recording supervisors Gunter Braun, Helmut Fackler
Recording Engineer Helmut David
Morton Feldman composed Piano and Orchestra for Roger Woodward in 1975.
TRACK LISTING
2 CD set
CD 1
• Flute and Orchestra (flute : Roswitha Staege)
• Cello and Orchestra (cello : Siegfried Palm)
total playing time 51’30”
CD-2
• Oboe and Orchestra (oboe: Armin Aussem)
• Piano and Orchestra (piano : Roger Woodward) (26’47”)
2 CD set
Performed at the First Sydney Spring International Festival of New Music & Visual Arts
Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1990
Recorded 1990, ABC Studios Sydney
Sound producer : Ralph Lane
Sound engineer : Allan Maclean
“Triadic Memories” is jointly dedicated to Aki Takahashi and Roger Woodward. Feldman described the work the “biggest butterfly in captivity”.
TRACK LISTING
CD-1
• Triadic Memories (beginning)
playing time 73’26”
CD-2
• Triadic Memories (conclusion) (14’08”)
• Piano (26’36”)
• Two Pianos (3’39”)
• Piano Four Hands (7’31”)
• Piano Three Hands (19’16”)
with Ralph Lane, piano (CD2, tracks 4 & 5)
Reviews:
http://www.cnvill.demon.co.uk/mfjack.htm
Notes collected by Adrian Jack: A day of new music (Dominic GIll, Financial Times, 6 October 1981; Morton Feldman’s Triadic Memories (Robert Henderson, Daily Telegraph, 6 October 1981; Feldman premiere (Hugo Cole, The Guardian, 5 October 1981):
... Woodward’s performance was an extraordinary feat of control; to play for 90 minutes pianissimo and almost senza espressione must be the hardest thing in the world…
http://www.stylusmagazine.com/feature.php?ID=423
http://www.stylusmagazine.com/feature.php?ID=423
Le Monde de la Musique (Juin 91), Rating ***
Quelle que soit l’affection qu’on peut éprouver pour une nature aussi foncièrement revêche que celle de Morton Feldman, l’écoute n’est pas aisée….
Télérama, 10 avril 1991
Alors, on se lance? On plonge ensemble dans ce large lac immobile, loin de bruit et de la fureur des villes?… Faut-il le préciser? Roger Woodward – à qui Triadic Memories est dédieé- est tout bonnement sublime. ….
Fanfare, July/August 1991
Morton Feldman’s music seems to be undergoing a revival of interest in the CD era, and thank heavens for that!….. . Woodward’s playing is quite remarkable throughout, especially in Triadic Memories ….
CD-Besprekingen
Enkele jaren geleden kostte het nog de grootste moeite een opname met muziek van Morton Feldman te vinden…..
Works by Rolf Gehlhaar (b.1943)
Julia Ryder, cello (track 1)
Peter Jenkins, bass clarinet (track 2)
Trevor Jones, trombone (track 3)
Roger Woodward, piano (track 4)
Rolf Gehlhaar, sound space (track 4)
Total playing time 73’22”
TRACK LISTING
• Solipse for cello and tape delay
• Polymorph for bass clarinet and tape delay
• Rondell for trombone and tape delay
• Diagonal Flying for piano and synthesizer
1991 ABC Live Music, Australia
1992 Etcetera Records BV
tracks 1-3 recorded during the Second Sydney Spring International Festival of New Music 1991
Recording producer Ralph Lane
Recording engineer Allan Maclean
track 4 – recorded during the First Sydney International Festival of New Music 1990
Recording producer Ralph Lane\
Recording engineer Jossi Gabbay
At the Art Gallery of New South Wales
Iannis Xenakis Kraanerg 70’47”
Roger Woodward, conductor
Alpha Centauri Ensemble
recorded in the Opera Theatre at the Sydney Opera House
24 November 1988 (with original tape 1969 Xenakis)
Producer Ralph Lane
Associate Producer Rolf Gehlhaar
Engineer Allan MacLean
Reviews:
Classical Records of the Year – The Sunday Times, 17 December 1989
A stringent and sustained electro-acoustical experience is to be had from Iannis Xenakis’s magnum opos Kraanerg (70 mins long) as recorded on Etcetera by the Alpha Centauri Ensemble and Roger Woodward…..
The Times, Saturday November 1, 1989
…The music has ‘active energy in abundance. … The performance is dazzling, and I come firmly into the ‘bowled over’ rather than ‘baffled’ category… A.W….. read more
Diapason-Harmonie, Decembre 1989, Les Nouvelles
Rating 8 TTTT
Une très belle interprétation, vigoureuse et sanguine, résultant de vingt-trois exécutions de la version ballet par la Sydney Dance Company et l’Alpha Centauri Ensemble sous la direction inspirée de Roger Woodward…… read more
Sydney Morning Herald, 17 January 1990, Roger Covell: Caution : 70 minutes of untamed music…
http://www.stereophile.com/records2die4/65/index1.html
Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, Claudio Abbado
Live recording from Wien Konzerthaus, 1992
Roger Woodward track:
Iannis Xenakis: Keqrops (1986)
for piano and orchestra (16’48’)
disc also includes:
Luigi Dallapiccola, Piccola musica notturna
Paolo Perezzani – Primavera dell’anima
Hans Werner Henze – Sinfonische Intermezzi
- Manadenjagd
1997 DGG Hamburg
Executive Producer – Christopher Alder
Recording producer – Wolfgang Sturm
Reviews:
Diversity for all seasons - Sydney Morning Herald, Classical CD of the Week, 18/8/97, Roger Covell
Xenakis/Woodward/Claudio Abbado
Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, Vienna
Anyone who heard Woodward make his way through the fantastic sound-world of this work in a Sydney Symphony Orchestra 20th century concert in the Town Hall will probably want to take the opportunity to hear it a leisure. This recording of his 1992 performance of it in Vienna with the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra directed by Claudio Abbado, newly issued by DG in its Modern Vienna series, is an astonishing act of collaboration between a pianist of unique capacities and one of the most eminent and enlightened conductors of our time…..
Total playing time 75’02”
1990/1995 ABC Classics / Polygram Classics / Etcetera Records Steinway piano
Producer Ralph Lane
Engineer Allan Maclean
TRACK LISTING
• 2 Danses Op 73
Guirlandes
Flammes sombres
• 5 Preludes Op 74
Douloureux, déchirant
Très lent, contemplatif
Allegro, drammatico
Lent, vague, indécis
Fier, belliqueux
• Vers la flamme, Op 72
• Sonata No 10 Op 70
• 2 Poèmes Op 71
Fantastique
En rêvant
• 2 Poèmes Op 63
Masque
Etrangeté
• Poème-nocturne Op 61
• Sonata No 6 Op 62
• 3 Etudes Op 65
Allegro fantastico
Allegretto
Molto vivace
Reviews:
Gramophone October 1992 : Compelling and absorbing performances, and proof that Roger Woodward’s interpretative powers extend far beyond the confines of the contemporary, avant-garde music…. One of Woodward’s most impressive qualities is his ability in the many shorter pieces… to reveal ‘worlds in a grain of sand’ – in the hands of other pianists, pieces like Guirlandes, or Masque, often come over as isolated curiosities – the flotsam and jetsam of an asteroid belt – but here they are minor planets inextricably linked by gravity to the larger bodies made up of the sonatas….
Total playing time 75’11”
1991 – ABC Classics
Recording Producer Ralph Lane
Recording Engineer Allan Maclean
Artistic dedication : To my friend Sviatoslav Richter, in gratitude
TRACK LISTING
• Sarcasmes, Op 17
• Prelude Op 12 NO 7
• Suggestion diabolique, Op 4 No 4
• Visions fugitives Op 22 - I-VII
• Four Etudes op 2
• Visions fugitives Op 22 - VIII-XIII
• Nocturne Op 43 bis No 2
• Gavotta, Op 32 NO 3
• Paysage, Op 59 NO 2
• March from L’amour des trois oranges, Op 33a
Total timing 72’40”
1992 Warner Music Australia, Steinway piano
Executive Producer Andrew McKeich
Recording Producer Ralph Lane
Recording Engineer Allan MacLean
TRACK LISTING
Valse brillante in A flat Op 34 NO 1
Waltz in F minor Op 70 No 2
Waltz in A flat Op 42
Berceuse in D flat Op 57
Etude in A flat Op 25 No 1
Etude in E Op 10 No 3
Prélude in A Op 28 No 7
Prélude in D flat Op 28 No 15 “Raindrop”
Prélude in C minor Op 28 No 20
Mazurka in A minor Op 59 No 1
Mazurka in F sharp minor Op 59 No 3
Prélude in E minor Op 28 No 4
Prélude in B minor Op 28 No 6
Waltz in D flat Op 64 No 1 “Minute”
Waltz in C sharp minor Op 64 No 2
Nocturne in F sharp Op 15 No 2
Waltz in E minor (No 14) Op.Posth.
Waltz in G flat Op 70 No 1
Ballade in F minor Op 52
Total playing time 66’06”
1994 Warner Music Australia, Steinway piano
Producer Andrew McKeich
Engineer Ron Craig
TRACK LISTING
• Smetana – Pleasant Landscape
• Grainger – Scotch Strathspey and Reel
• Grainger – Children’s March “Over the hills and far away”
• Palmgren – May Night
• Bartok – Rumanian Folkdances
• Grieg – Morning Mood (Peer Gynt)
• Grieg – Norwegian Dance Op 35 NO 2
• Grieg – Gavotte (Holberg Suite)
• Grieg – Homeland
• Grieg – Solveig’s Song (Peer Gynt)
• Field – Nocturne No 5
• Liadov – The Music Box
• Tchaikovsky – Russian Dance Op 40 No 10
• Albéniz – Malaguena
• Gottschalk – The Banana Tree
• Nyman – The Heart Asks Pleasure First (from the film ‘The Piano’)
• Satie – Gnossienne No 1
• Nazareth – Neñe
• Joplin – Kismet Rag
• Stanley – Thre Rose Bay Quadrilles
• Schubert – Three German Dances D.975 & D.974
• Kiechlin – Roses in the Midday Sun
• Pärt – für alina
• Schubert – Waltz D.84 (Albumblatt)
Takemitsu Complete Piano Works, with Etcetera Records BV. KTC 1103 (1990)
(with Rolf Gehlhaar, bowed cymbal, track 11)
Total playing time 78’29”
1990 ABC Classics / Etcetera Recordings BV Steinway piano
Recording Producer Ralph Lane
Engineers Allan Maclean, Yossi Gabbay
TRACK LISTING
• Rain Tree Sketch
• Les yeux clos – I and II
• For Away
• Litany – I and II
• Piano Distance
• Uninterrupted Rests (3 poems on a text by Takiguchi Shuzo)
Slowly, sadly, and as if to converse with
Quietly and with a cruel reverberation
A song of love
• Corona and Crossing
Reviews:
http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2002/Aug02/Takemitsu.htm
Gary Higginson : Roger Woodward is a real Takemitsu expert with works such as ‘Uninterrupted Silence’ dedicated to him by the composer. He loves and understands this music, with its myriad difficulties…..
Gramophone : It’s good to see Roger Woodward back in the recording studio…. his pioneering recordings back in the 1970s did much to further awareness of many European and Australian composers… the enterprising Netherlands-based label Etcetera, have pounced on this remarkably talented musician and are bringing us a series of recordings…. Roger Woodward’s refined pianism and communicative skills allow the listener to enjoy this subtle, fastidious music to its full potential….
Total playing time 62’57”
2000 Artworks
Producer Andrew McKeich
Engineer Ron Craig
TRACK LISTING
• Phar Lap
• Cinema Paradiso
• Reilly, Ace of Spies
• Casablanca
• Schindler’s List
• The Snowman
Music Box Dance
Walking in the Air
• East of Eden
• The Man from Snowy River
Jessica’s Sonata
Rosemary Recalls
Tom Fool’s Knot
• A King in New York
Mandolin Serenade
The Spring Song
Now That It’s Ended
• The Great Dictator
Falling Star
• The Untouchables
Al Capone
Ness and his Family
Death Theme
• The Pink Panther Strikes Again
• The Thorn Birds
• The Third Man
Harry Lime Theme
Café Mozart Waltz
• Dr Zhivago - Tonya
• The Winds of War
• The Chronicles of Narnia – Asian’s theme
• The Godfather 2
• The Godfather - Waltz
• Pinocchio- When you wish upon a star
Solo piano music from the movies
Total playing time 61’02”
1996 Artworks Steinway Piano
Producer Andrew McKeich
Engineer Ron Craig
A collection of classic movie themes personally selected and masterfully performed by Australia’s premiere concert pianist
TRACK LISTING
• The Man from Snowy River – Jessica’s Theme (Bruce Rowland)
• Howard’s End – Bridal Lullaby (Percy Grainger)
• Dr Zhivago – Lara’s Theme (Maurice Jarre arr. Roger Woodward)
• Dr Zhivago – Main Theme (Maurice Jarre arr. Roger Woodward)
• Limelight “The Terry” Theme (Charles Chaplin)
• A Town Like Alice – Main Theme (Bruce Smeaton, arr Roger Woodward)
• The Goldwyn Follies – Love Walked In (George Gershwin/ arr. Percy Grainger)
• Diva – Sentimental Walk (Vladimir Cosma arr. Roger Woodward)
• Love Story – Main Theme (Francis Lai arr Henry Mancini, adapted Roger Woodward)
• The Piano – Big My Secret (Michael Nyman)
• The Godfather – Love Theme (Nina Rota arr. Roger Woodward)
• Missing – Main Theme (Vangelis, arr Roger Woodward)
• The Timeless Land – Main Theme (Bruce Smeaton, arr. Roger Woodward)
• Romeo & Juliet – Love Theme (Nino Rota, arr. Roger Woodward)
• Picnic at Hanging Rock – Ascent Music (Bruce Smeaton)
• The Man from Snowy River – (Bruce Rowland, arr. Roger Woodward)
Main Theme
Now do we Fight them
Jessica’s Sonata II
By the Fireside
• Heavenly Creatures – Pauline and Juliet (Peter Dasent)
• The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith – Main Theme (Bruce Smeaton, arr Roger Woodward)
• Exodus – Main Theme (Ernest Gold, arr. Roger Woodward)
2 CD set
Total playing time 73’54”
1998 Artworks, Steinway piano
Producer, Andrew McKeich
TRACK LISTING
CD 1
• Rachmaninov 18th variation
• Doctor Zhivago – Lara’s Theme
• Doctor Zhivago – Tanya’s Theme
• Doctor Zhivago – Main Theme
• Diva – Sentimental Walk
• Romeo & Juliet – Love Theme
• The Man from Snowy River – Jessica’s Theme
• The Man from Snowy River – Jessica’s Sonata
• Schindler’s List
• Exodus – Main Theme
• The Godfather – Love Theme
• The Godfather – Waltz
• The Godfather 2 – Main Theme
• Phar Lap
• A Town Like Alice
• The Thorn Birds
• Howards End – Bridal Lullaby
• The Piano – Big my Secret
• Love Story
• East of Eden
• Cinema Paradiso
• Reilly, Ace of Spies
• Casablanca – As time goes by
• A King in New York – Mandolin Serenade
• Pinocchio – When You Wish Upon a Star
• Grainger – Shepherd’s Hey
• Bach- Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring
• Prokofiev – Evening
• Benjamin – The Quiet Garden
Total playing time 73’00
CD 2
• Joplin – The Entertainer
• Beethoven – Für Elise
• Chopin – “Raindrop” Prelude
• Schumann – From Foreign Lands and People
• Schumann – Dreaming
• Chopin – “Minute” Waltz
• Chopin – Waltz Op 70 No 2
• Chopin – Prelude Op 28 NO 7
• Chopin – Prelude Op 28 No 20
• Beethoven - “Moonlight” Sonata
• Bach – Prelude in C major
• Saint-Saens – The Swan
• Mendelssohn – On Wings of Song
• Elgar – Salut d’Amour
• Mozart – Sonata in A Major
• Chopin – Lullaby (Berceuse)
• Chopin – Prelude Op 28 No 4
• Chopin – Prelude Op 28 No 6
• Debussy – The Girl with the Flaxen Hair
• Debussy – Sounds and Perfumes Swirl in the Evening Air
• Debussy – General Lavine-Eccentric
• Debussy – The Terrace for Moonlight Audiences
• Bartok – Evening in Transylvania
• Grieg – Arietta
• Schubert – Lullaby
Total playing time 64’09”
Year: 1989
Yamaha CF2 Concert Grand, RCA
Producer Ralph Mace
Recording engineer Bruce Sheldrick
TRACK LISTING
• Clair de Lune (Debussy)
• The Girl with the Flaxen Hair (Debussy)
• Golliwog’s Cake-walk (Debussy)
• Romance, Op28 No 2 (Schumann)
• The Prophet Bird, Op 82 NO 7 (Schumann)
• Arabesque, Op 18 (Schumann)
• Devotion (Schumann-Liszt)
• Berceuse, Op 4 No 5 (Sibelius)
• Romance Op 24 NO 9 (Sibelius)
• To the Spring (Grieg)
• Blithe Bells (Bach-Grainger)
• The Lover and the Nightingale (Granados)
• Mazurka in B flat, Op 7 NO 1 (Chopin)
• Mazurka in A minor, Op 7 No 2 (Chopin)
• Nocturne in E flat, Op 9 NO 2 (Chopin)
• Waltz in A flat, Op 69 No 1 (Chopin)
• The Old Minuet, Op 14 No 1 (Paderewski)
• Troika Ride (November) Op 37a (Tchaikovsky)
• Prelude in C sharp minor, Op 3 No 2 (Rachmaninov)
Playing time 71’25”
Year: 1992
Warner Music Australia
Executive Producer Andrew McKeich
Recording Producer Ralph Lane
Engineer Allan MacLean
TRACK LISTING
• Gershwin I got Rhythm
Fascinating Rhythm
Oh, Lady be Good
Do it again
The man I love
• Grainger Danny Boy
Country Gardens
Handel in the Strand
• Joplin Maple Leaf Rag
• Sinding Rustle of Spring
• Greig Cradle Song
Once upon a time
Little Troll
• Schubert Moment Musical
• R Strauss Ständchen
• Mendelssohn Spring Song
• Schumann Novelette
• Chopin Scottish Dances
• Brahms Intermezzo
Waltz
• Rachmaninov Polichinelle
Eighteenth Variation from Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini
• Albéniz Tango
• Debussy Evening in Grenada
Arabesque
Minstrels
• Satie I want you : waltz
• Gowers John Hector McFarlane and his mother
• Liszt Forgotten Waltz
2 CD set
Playing time 77’33”
Year: 1995-1997
ABC Classics, Steinway piano
Executive Producer Matthew Freeman
Recording Producer & Editor Ralph Lane
Engineer Allan Maclean
TRACK LISTING
CD 1
• L’Isle joyeuse
• Estampes
• D’un cahier d’esquisses
• Images I
• Hommage à Haydn
• Images II
• La plus que lente
• Page d’album
• Children’s Corner
Playing Time 78’00”
CD 2
• Suite bergamasque
• Etudes : Book I
• Images (oubliées)
• Etudes : Book II
Year: 1995
Total playing time 77’56”. ABC Classics. Steinway piano.
Executive Producer Matthew Freeman;
Producer and editing Ralph Lane
Engineer : Allan Maclean
TRACK LISTING
• L’Isle joyeuse
• Estampes
Pagodes
La soirée dans Grenade
Jardins sous la pluie
• D’un cahier d’esquisses
• Images I
Reflets dans l’eau
Hommage à Rameau
Mouvement
• Hommage à Haydn
• Images II
Cloches à travers les feuilles
Et la lune descend sur le temple qui fut
Poissons d’or
• La plus que lente
• Page d’album
• Children’s Corner
Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum
Jimbo’s Lullaby
Serenade for the Doll
The Snow is dancing
The little Shepherd
Golliwog’s Cake-walk
Etudes, Suite Bergamasque, Images (oubliées)
Year: 1996/97
Total Playing time 77’33”
Steinway piano. ABC Classics.
Executive Producers Matthew Freeman, Robert Patterson
Recording Producer & Editor, Ralph Lane
Recording Engineer Allan MacLean
TRACK LISTING
• Suite Bergamasque
Prelude
Menuet
Clair de Lune
Passepied
• Etudes: Book I
I – pour les cinq doigts : d’après Monsieur Czerny
II – pour les Tierces
III – pour les Quartes
IV – pour les Sixtes
V – pour les Octaves
VI – pour les huit doigts
• Images (oubliées)
I – Lent
II – Dans le mouvement d’une sarabande
III – Quelques aspects du «Nous n’irons plus au bois» parce qu’il fait un temps insupportable
• Etudes : Book II
VII – pour les degrés chromatiques
VII – pour les agréments
IX – pour les notes répétées
X – pour les Sonorités opposées
XI – puor les Arpéges composés
XII – pour les accords
Total playing time 70’29”
Steinway Piano. Warner Classics, 1995.
Produced by Andrew McKeich and engineered by Ron Craig.
TRACK LISTING
• Beethoven Fűr Elise
• Liszt Consolation No 3
• Schumann From Foreign Lands and People
• Schumann Dreaming
• MacDowell To A Wild Rose
• Grieg Elves Dance
• Beethoven “Moonlight” Sonata
• Rachmaninov arr Woodward 18th Variation
• Grainger Danny Boy
• Gershwin The Man I Love
• Schubert Moment Musical
• Chopin “Raindrop” Prelude
• Chopin “Minute” Waltz
• Mendelssohn Venetian Gondola Song
• Debussy Clair de Lune
• Williams Schindler’s List
• J.S.Bach Anna Magdalena Notebook (excerpts)
• J.S.Bach Gavotte
• Debussy The Little Negro
• Tchaikovsky Reverie
• Satie Gymnopedia No 1
• Chopin Scottish Dances
• Mendelssohn Spring Song
• Grainger Handel in the Strand
• Grainger Country Gardens
• Grieg Cradle Song
Live video of Gala Recital of four Beethoven Sonatas for 20th Anniversary
of Sydney Opera House, Polydor, 1993.
BBC Television Documentaries with Xenakis (1992), Boulez (1972),
Stockhausen (1972), Cage (1972)
ABC – Woodward directs Alpha Centauri Ensemble at Huddersfield
International Festival of New Music (1992), Chris Dench Flute
Concerto (BBC2 TV)
ABC Television Documentary with Graeme Murphy (1990)
Woodward at Tsukuba World Expo, Japan (1992)
50th Birthday documentary, TV Channel 9, Australia (1992)
The Seventh Spring (1998) with Arvo Pärt, Edo de Waart (Schoenberg)
Woodward/Skryabin for Noosa Film Festival (1999)
Woodward/New England-ABC TV documentary Australian Story (1999)
Interview with RW for Sky Television News (half hour) December, 2003.
Video Publications:
Live video of Gala Recital of four Beethoven Sonatas for 20th Anniversary of Sydney Opera House, Polydor, (1993).
Something Rich and Strange - BBC Television Documentaries with Xenakis (1992)
BBC Television documentaries with Boulez (1972), Stockhausen (1972), Cage (1972)
ABC – Woodward directs Alpha Centauri Ensemble at Huddersfield International Festival of New Music (1992), Chris Dench Flute Concerto (BBC2 TV)
ABC Television Documentary with Graeme Murphy (1990)
Woodward at Tsukuba World Expo, Japan (1992)
50th Birthday documentary, TV Channel 9, Australia (1992)
The Seventh Spring (1998) with Arvo Pärt, Edo de Waart (Schoenberg)
Woodward/Skryabin for Noosa Film Festival (1999)
Woodward/New England-ABC TV documentary Australian Story (1999)
Interview with RW for Sky Television News (half hour) December (2003).
R O G E R W O O D W A R D
D I S C O G R A P H Y
ABC CLASSICS
*WERDER 3rd Sonata (1969)
format: LP
item number: unknown
contents:
Werder 3rd Sonata
*MEALE CORUSCATIONS live from Sydney Opera House (1973)
format: LP
item number: unknown
*CONCERT FOR DARWIN live at the Sydney Opera House (1970)
Format: LP
item number: SMX44977-44980
Contents: Chopin Polonaise Op.44 No.5 in F Sharp Minor
*TAKEMITSU PIANO WORKS (1991)
format:CD
Item number: ABC446 739-2
contents:
Rain Tree Sketch, Les Yeux Clos, For Away, Litany, Piano Distance, Uninterrupted Rests and Corona & Crossing (live from Sydney Spring 1990)
*ROGER WOODWARD PLAYS PROKOFIEV (1991)
format: CD
item number: ABC426 806-2
contents: Sarcasms op.17, Prelude op.12 No.7, Suggestion Diabolique op.4 No.4, Visions Fugitives op.22, Four Etudes op.2, Visions Fugitives op.22, Children’s Suite op.65, Pensees op.62, Visions Fugitives op.22, Nocturne op.43 bis No.2, Gavotta op.32 No.3, Paysage op.59 No.2, March from L’amour des trois oranges op.33a
*SKRYABIN late piano works (1991-2)
format: CD
item number: ABC446 741-2
contents: 2 Danses op.73, 5 Preludes op.74, Vers la flamme op.72, Sonata No.10 op.70, 2 Poemes op.71, 2 Poemes op.69, 2 Preludes op.67, 2 Poemes op.63, Poeme-nocturne op.61, Sonata No.6 op.62 and 3 Etudes op.65
*SKRYABIN Piano Concerto Works for Solo Piano (1999)
format: CD(2CDs)
item number: ABC465 671-2
contents: 3 Pieces op.2, 2 Nocturnes op.5, 5 Preludes op.16, Piano Concerto in F-sharp minor op.20, 2 Poemes op.32, Waltz in A-flat major op.38, 8 Etudes op.42, 3 Morceaux op.52, 2 Pieces op.57, Feuillet d’Album op.58, 2 Pieces op.59, 2 Danses op.73, Vers la flamme op.72, Sonata No.10 op.70, 2 Poemes op.71, 2 Poemes op.69, 2 Preludes op.67, 2 Poemes op.63, Poeme-nocturne op.61, Sonata No.6 op.62 and 3 Etudes op.65
*IMAGES OF DEBUSSY (1997)
format: CD
item number: ABC446 740-2
contents: L’Isle Joyeuse, Estampes, D’un cahier d’esquisses, Images I, Hommage a Haydn, Images II, La plus que lente, Page d’album and Children’s Corner
*DEBUSSY (1995)
format: CD
item number: ABC454 512-2
contents: Suite Bergamasque, Etudes Book I, Images (oubliees) and Etudes Book II
*DEBUSSY PIANO WORKS (2002 re-release)
format: CD(2CDs)
item number: ABC472 170-2
contents: L’Isle Joyeuse, Estampes, D’un cahier d’esquisses, Images I, Hommage a Haydn, Images II, La plus que lente, Page d’album, Children’s Corner, Suite Bergamasque, Etudes Book I, Images (oubliees) and Etudes Book II
*ANNE BOYD Meditations on a Chinese Character (1997)
format: CD
item number: ABC462 007-2
contents: Angklung
*SITSKY PIANO CONCERTO : The Twenty-Two Paths of the Tarot (1999)
format: CD
item number: ABC456 688-2
contents: Concert for Piano and Orchestra(1991, revised 1994) The Twenty-Two Paths of the Tarot
ARTWORKS
*LITTLE MASTERPIECES (1996)
format: CD
item number: AW001
contents: The Heather(Debussy), Song without Words(Mendelssohn), On wings of Song (Mendelssohn), Sonatina in G(Mozart), Waltz(Brahms), Intermezzo(Brahms),The Girl with Flaxen Hair(Debussy), The Swan(Saint-Saens), Rondo in C(Mozart), Minuet in C(Mozart), Minuet in D(Mozart), Minuet in G(Mozart), Arietta(Mozart), Arietta(Grieg), Woodland Peace(Grieg), Funeral March for a Marionette(Gounod), Scottish Dance(Beethoven), Minuet in G(Mozart), Minute in F(Mozart), German Dance(Schubert), Waltz(Schubert), Sentimental Waltz(Schubert), Salut d’amour(Elgar), Song without Words(Tchaikovsky), Sad Song(Tchaikovsky), Allegretto(Schubert), Notturno(Grieg) and Little Piece(Liszt)
*MOVING PICTURES solo piano music from the movies (1995)
format: CD
item number: AW002
contents: The Man form Snowy River(Jessica’s Theme), Howard’s End(Bridal Lullaby), Dr Zhivago(Lara’s Theme), Dr Zhivago(Main Theme), Limelight(“The Terry” Theme), A Town Like Alice(Main Theme), The Goldwin Follies(Love Walked In), Diva(Sentimental Walk), Love Story(Main Theme), The Piano(Big My Secret),The Godfather(Love Theme), Missing(Main Theme), Romeo And Juliet(Love Theme), Picnic At Hanging Rock(Ascent Music), The Man form Snowy River II(Main Theme), The Man form Snowy River II(Now Do We Fight Them), The Man form Snowy River II(Jessica’s Sonata II), The Man form Snowy River II(By The Fire Side), Heavenly Creatures(Pauline And Juliet), The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith(Main Theme) and Exodus(Main Theme)
*LULLABY (1997)
format: CD
item number: AW004
contents: Lullaby(Brahms),Lullaby(Sibelius), Lullaby(Ilynsky), Lullaby(Grieg), Waltz(Brahms), The Dream Catsle(Hutchens), Evening(Hutchens),
Lullaby(Hill), Lullaby(Faure), Lullaby(Cui), Daydreams(Borodin), Nocturne(Borodin), Daydreams(MacDowell), Lullaby(Fuchs), lullaby(Suk), Lullaby for sleeping children(Suk), Finnish lullaby(Palmgren), Lullaby(Agnew), Morning Prayer(Tchaikovsky), Lullaby(Tchaikovsky), Waltz(Tchaikovsky), Melody(Schumann), Evening(Schumann), Little Lullaby(Schumann), Lullaby(Hutchens), Forest Echoes(Hyde), Lonely Trees(Hyde), The Quiet Meadow(Hyde)and Lullaby(Gehlhaar)
* CINEMA PARADISO (1996)
format: CD(TAPE)
item number: AW008(AW4008(TAPE))
contents: Phar Lap(Main Theme), Cinema Paradiso(Main theme), Reilly, Ace of Spies (Main Theme), Casablanca(As Time Goes By), Schindler’s list(Main Theme), East of Eden(Main Theme), The Man from Snowy River(Jessica’s Sonata)The Man from Snowy River(Rosemary Recalls), The Man from Snowy River(Tom fool’s Knot), A King in New York(Mandolin serenade), A King in New York(The Spring Song), A King in New York(Now That It’s Ended), The great Dictator(Falling Star), The Untouchable(Al Capone), The Untouchable(Ness And His Family), The Untouchable(Death Theme), The Pink Panther Strikes Again(The Inspector Clouseau Theme), The Thorn Birds(Main Theme), The Third Man(The Harry Lime Theme), The Third Man(The Cafe Mozart Waltz), Dr Zhivago(Tonya), The Winds of War(Love Theme), The Chronicles of Narnia(Aslan’s Theme), The Godfather 2(Main Theme), The Godfather (The Godfather Waltz) and Pinnochio (When You Wish Upon A Star) {Bonus Tracks only on TAPE: Schindler's List(Stolen memories), The Man from Snowy River 2 (Back to The Mountains)
CINEMA , Classics from the Silver Screen (1998)
solo piano music from the movies – Mozart, Schubert, Chopin, Mendelssohn, Liszt, Debussy Suk.
*ROGER WOODWARD PLAYS CHOPIN
(1998, live performance Sydney Opera House 1997)
format: CD
Item number: AW012
contents: Nocturnes op.9 No.1 No.2 and No.3, Waltz op.64 No.2, Waltz op.32 No.2, Mazurka op.17 No.4, Mazruka op.63 No.3, Mazurka op.30 No. 4, Mazurka op.56 No.2 and No.3, Mazurka op.68 No.4, Mazurka op.24 no.4, Etude op.25 No.1 No.2 No.6 and No.7, Polonaiseop.40 No.1
*THE ESSENTIAL ALBUM (1998)
format: CD(2CDs)
item number: AW015
contents: 18th Variation(Rachmaninov), Dr Zhivago(Lara's Theme), Dr Zhivago(Tonya's Theme) Dr Zhivago(Main Theme), Diva(Sentimental Walk), Romeo And Juliet (Love Theme), The Man from Snowy River (Jessica's Theme), The Man from Snowy River(Jessica's Sonata), Schindler's List (Main Theme), Exodus(Main Theme), The Godfather (Love Theme), The Godfather(The Godfather Waltz), The Godfather 2(Main theme), Phar Lap(Main Theme), A Town Like Alice(Main Theme), The Thorn Birds (main theme), Howard's End (Bridal Lullaby), The Piano (Big my secret), Love Story(Main Theme), East of Eden(Main theme), Cinema Paradiso(Main theme); Reilly, Ace of Spies(Main Theme), Casablanca(As Time Goes By), A King in New York( Mandolin Serenade), Pinocchio (When You Wish Upon A Star), Shepherd's Hey(Grainger), Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring(Bach), Evening (Prokofiev), The Quiet garden(Benjamin), The Entertainer (Joplin), Fur Elise(Beethoven), "Raindrop" Prelude(Chopin), From Foreign Lands And People(Schumann), Dreaming Schumann), "Minute" Waltz(Chopin), Waltz op.70 No.2(Chopin), Prelude op.28 No.7 No.20(Chopin), "Moonlight" Sonata 1st movement(Beethoven), Prelude in C major(Bach), The Swan(Saint-Saens), On Wings of Song (Mendelssohn), Salut d'amour(Elgar), SAonata in A major 1st movement(Mozart), Lullaby(Bercuse)(Chopin), Prelude op.28 No.4 No.6(Chopin), The Girl With Flaxen Hair (Debussy), Sounds and Perfumes Swirl In The Evening Air( Debussy), General Lavine-Eccentric (Debussy), The Terrace For Moonlight Audiences (Debussy), Evening In Transylvania(Bartok), Arietta(Grieg) and Lullaby(Schubert)
*RONDO ALLA TURCA
format: CD
item number: AW021
contents: Impromptu No.1(Chopin), Waltz op.69 No.1(Chopin), Fantasie Impromptu(Chopin), Waltz op.69 No.2(Chopin), Nocturn op.15 No.1(Chopin), Rondo Alla Turca(Mozart), Liebestraum No.3(Liszt), Consolation No.1(Liszt), Reverie(Debussy), Song Without Words(Mendelssohn), Idyl(Suk) and Impromptu No.3 No.4(Schubert)
BMG
*CLAIR DE LUNE (1989)
format: CD
item number: SPCD1198
contents: Clair de Lune(Debussy), The Girl with the Flaxen Hair(Debussy), Golliwog's Cakewalk (Debussy); Romance op.28 no 2 (Schumann); The Prophet BIrd, op.82 no.7 (Schumann); Arabesque op 18 (Schumann); Devotion (Schumann-Liszt); Berceuse op.4 No.5(Sibelius), Romance op.24 No.9(Sibelius), To the Spring (Grieg), Blithe Bells(Bach-Grainger), The Lover and the Nightingale(Granados), Mazurka in B flat op.7 No.1(Chopin), Mazurka in A minor op.7 No.2(Chopin), Nocturne in E flat op.9 No.2(Chopin), Waltz in A flat op.69 No.1(Chopin), The Old Minuet(Paderewski), Troika Ride(November) op.37a(Tchaikowsky), Prelude in C sharp minor op.3 No.2(Rachmaninov).
CELESTIAL HARMONIES
FRYDERYK CHOPIN, The Complete Nocturnes (2006)
Format CD, Item Number 14260-2 (double CD) Disc 1 58'17"; Disc 2 65'55"
Producer/Engineer, Ulrich Kraus, Munich
http://www.harmonies.com
HANS OTTE, Released July 2007
13259-2 Stundenbuch/ Book of Hours - Composed by Hans Otte
http://www.blacksun.com/releases/13259.htm
http://www.amazon.com/Book-Hours-Stundenbuch-Roger-Woodward/dp/B000RGOC92/ref=cm_cr_pr_orig_subj
PETER MICHAEL HAMEL, Released July 2007
13256-2 Vom Klang Des Lebens / Of the Sounds of Life - Composed by Peter Michael Hamel
http://www.blacksun.com/releases/13256.htm
BACH, Released September 2007
13280-2 Johann Sebastian BACH: Chromatic Fantasia & Fugue BWV 903, Partita No. 2 BWV 826, Partita No. 6 BWV 830
http://www.blacksun.com/releases/13280.htm
http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2010/Apr10/Bach_Woodward_199225.htm
COL LEGNO
*20 ANS DE MUSIQUE CONTEMPORAINE A METZ
format: CD(5CDs)
item number: AU31 8 30CD
contents: FELDMAN Piano Concerto (live with Hans Zender and Saarbruken Rundfunksorchester)
*20 ANS DE MUSIQUE CONTEMPORAINE A METZ
format: CD
item number: AU31 8 31CD(Separate form as AU31 8 30CD)
contents: FELDMAN Piano Concerto (live with Hans Zender and Saarbruken Rundfunksorchester)
*FELDMAN ORCHESTRAL WORKS AND CHAMBER MUSIC
item number: WWE 1CD 20506(re-release as AU31 8 30CD)
contents: FELDMAN Piano Concerto (live with Hans Zender and Saarbruken Rundfunksorchester)
CPO
*MORTON FELDMAN (Hans Zender Edition) (1978)
format: CD
item number: CPO 999 483-2(same contents as Col Legno)
contents: FELDMAN Piano Concerto- World Premiere (live with Hans Zender and Saarbruken Rundfunksorchester)
DECCA
* TAKEMITSU PIANO WORKS (1974)
format: LP
item number: HEAD4
contents: Corona (London version), For Away, Piano Distance, Uninterrupted Rests
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON
*WIEN MODERN III (1995)
format: CD
item number: 447 115-2
contents: Xenakis Keqrops (Wien Modern with Claudio Abbado recorded live at Wiener Konzerthaus 1995)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON (AUSTRALIA)
*THE COLOUR OF AUSTRALIAN CLASSICS
format: CD(2CDS)
item number: 441 969-2
contents: Xenakis Keqrops (Wien Modern with Claudio Abbado recorded live at Wiener Konzerthaus 1995)
EMI
*CHOPIN PIANO WORKS (1970)
format: LP
item number: OASD7560
contents: Etudes op.10(complete), Nocturne op.27 No.2, Polonaise Fantasie op.61
*RACHMANINOV PRELUDES (1970) (re-release on CD 1974)
format: LP
item number: OASD7561
contents: Prelude G Sharp minor op.32 No.12, Prelude C Sharp minor op.3 No.1, Prelude B Flat minor op.32 No.2, Prelude B minor op.32 No.10, Prelude F minor op.32 No.6, Prelude D major op.23 No.4, Prelude A major op.32 No.9, Prelude F Sharp minor op.23 No.1, Prelude G minor op.23 No.5, Prelude C minor op.23 No.7
*SKRYABIN PROKOFIEV SHOSTAKOVICH (1970)
format: LP
item number: OASD7562
contents: Etude in C Sharp minor, Op.2 No.1(Scriabin), Etude in B Flat minor, Op.8 No.11(Scriabin), Piano Sonata No.10(Scriabin), Prelude and Fugue in D Flat No.15(Schostakovich), Piano Sonata No.7(Prokofiev)
*ROGER WOODWARD PLAYS CHOPIN (1972)
format: LP
item number: HQS1303
contents: Polonaise in F Sharp minor op.44, Allegro de Concert op.46, , Barcarolle op.60, Mazurkas op.68 No.1-3, Mazurkas op.posth.
*AUSTRALIAN CONTEMPORARY MUSIC Meale/Sculthorpe/Edwards (1970)
format: LP
item number: OASD7567
contents: Coruscations(Meale), Sonatina(Sculthorpe), Monos II(Edwards), Snow, Moon and Flowers(Sculthorpe), Night(Sculthorpe), Landscape(Sculthorpe)
*THE LONDON MUSIC DIGEST FROM THE ROUND HOUSE (1972)
format: LP(2LPs)
item number: EMSP551
contents: Sonate(Barraque), Pour Clavier(apres ‘Pieces de Chair II’)(Busotti), Per Tre sul Piano(Bussotti), Sonata Pian’e Forte, For Tape, Piano and Percussion(Brouwer)
*CONYNGHAM (1982)
format: LP
Item number: OASD 27 0403
contents: Southern Cross, Double Concerto for Violin and Piano (with Wanda Wilkomirska and Sydney Symphony Orchestra live from Sydney Opera House)
ETCETERA
*XENAKIS (1998) (re-release 1999)
format: CD
item number: KTC1075
contents:
Kraanerg (Roger Woodward conducting Alpha Centauri Ensemble live from Sydney Opera House)
*TAKEMITSU PIANO WORKS (1990)
format:CD
item number: KTC1103
contents: Rain Tree Sketch, Les Yeux Clos, For Away, Litany, Piano Distance, Uninterrupted Rests and Corona & Crossing (live from Sydney Spring 1990)
*FELDMAN (1990)
format:CD
item number: KTC2015
contents: Triadic Memories, Piano, Two Pianos, Piano Four Hands and Piano Three Hands (with Rarph Lane)
*GEHLHAAR DIAGONAL FLYING (with Rolf Gehlhaar - Sound Space) (1990-91)
format: CD
item number: KTC1127
contents: Diagonal Flying (with Rolf Gehlhaar - Sound Space) (Recorded live at Sydney Spring International Festival of New Music)
*SKRYABIN LATE PIANO WORKS (1991)
format: CD
Item number: KTC1126
contents: 2 Danses op.73, 5 Preludes op.74, Vers la flamme op.72, Sonata No.10 op.70, 2 Poemes op.71, 2 Poemes op.69, 2 Preludes op.67, 2 Poemes op.63, Poeme-nocturne op.61, Sonata No.6 op.62 and 3 Etudes op.65
FOGHORN CLASSICS
fragments, vol.1
Shostakovich String Quartets
Shostakovich Piano Quintet in G Minor, Op57
3 CD set, total playing time 74’58”; 74’1”; 73’42”
Producer and Engineer Judith Sherman,
Recorded at the American Academy of Arts & Letters, 2005
J&B
*SOLO (1988)
favourites by Bach/Beethoven /Chopin/Grieg /Liszt /Mozart /Tchaikovsky /etc
format: CD and LP
item number: unknown(CD), JB260(LP)
contents:
Gymnopedie No.1(from 3 Gymnopedies)(Satie), Tango Op.165 No.2 from Espagna(Albeniz), Bagatelle Aminor(1809)(“Fur Elise”)(Beethoven), Minuet in G Major(Beethoven), Nocturn D Flat Major Op.27 No.2(Chopin), Etude E major Op.10 No.7(Deep is the Night), Etude C Minor op.10 No.12(Revolutionary), Fantasie Impromptu C Sharp Minor Op.66(Chopin), Gigue for the Fifth French Suite in G Major(J. S. Bach), 1st Movement(Allegro) from C major Sonata K.545(W. A. Mozart), Rondo Alla Turca from A major Sonata K.331(W. A. Mozart), March from the Opera “The Love for Three Oranges”(Prokofiev), Russian Dance from Children’s Album op.39(Tchaikovsky), Waltz in D Flat Op.61 No.1(The Minute)(Chopin), Prelude A Major Op.28 No.7(Les Sylphides), Liebestraum No.3 in A Flat Major(Liszt), Malaguena(from the Spanish Suite)(Lecuona), Wedding Day at Troldhaugen(Grieg)
*MUSIC OF THE NIGHT (1990)
popular themes from films and musicals
format: CD and LP
item number: unknown(CD), JB425(LP)
contents: Music Of The Night(Prelude)(Phantom of the Opera), All I Ask(Phantom of the Opera), Memory(Cats), Endless Love(Jesus Christ Superstar), I Don’t Know How To Love Him(Jesus Christ Superstar), Jessica’s Theme(The Man From Snowy River), The Timeless land(The Snowman), Walking In The Air(The Snowman), Don’t Cry For Me Argentina(Evita), As Time Goes By(Casablanca), Chariots Of Fire(An Officer & A Gentleman), Up Where We Belong(An Officer & A Gentleman), All Creatures Great And Small(Sesame Street), Rainbow Connection(Sesame Street), Six Ribbons(Beaches), Wind Beneath My wings(Beaches), Bring Him Home(Les Miserables), On Golden Pond(Phantom of the Opera),Imagine (Phantom of the Opera), Music Of The Night (Phantom of the Opera)
LONDON(JAPAN)
* TAKEMITSU PIANO WORKS
format: CD
item number: POCL-2347(Re-release CD: POCL-3998 and UCCD-3131)
contents: Corona (London version), For Away, Piano Distance, Uninterrupted Rests
POLSKIE NAGRANIA
*SEROCKI Fantasmagoria (1976)(One of the series of the LP 20th International Festival of Contemporary Music Warsaw Autumn)
format: LP
item number: SX1444
contents: SEROCKI Fantasmagoria (1976)
RCA
*BEETHOVEN SONATAS op.57, op.111 (1973)
format: LP
item number: LRL1 5016
contents: BEETHOVEN Sonatas op.57, op.111
*BEETHOVEN SONATAS op.2 no.3; op.49 no.2; op.27 no.2 (1976)
format: LP
item number: LRL1 5097
contents: BEETHOVEN Sonatas op.2 no.3; op.49 no.2; op.27 no.2
*AUSTRALIA CONTEMPORARY MUSIC (1974)
Meale/Boyd/Sculthorpe/Bauld/Conyngham
format: LP
item number: VRL1-0083
contents: Orenda(Meale), Coruscations(Meale), Angklung(Boyd), Koto Music(Sculthorpe), Snowflake(Conyngham), Concert(Bauld)
*SHOSTAKOVICH Preludes & Fugues (1976)
format: LP(2LPs)
item number: LRL2 5100
contents: 24 Preludes and Fugues(complete)
*BEETHOVEN/LISZT EROICA SYMPHONY (1973)
format: LP
item number: RL25090
contents: BEETHOVEN/LISZT Eroica Symphony
*HODDINOT 3RD CONCERTO (1976)
(with hans-Hubert Schonzeler & Philharmonia Orchestra)
format: LP
item number: RL25082
contents: HODDINOT 3rd Concerto
*BRAHMS 1ST CONCERTO (with Kurt Masur & Philharmonia Orchestra)(1976)
format: LP
item number: RL25031
contents: BRAHMS 1st Concerto
*SHOSTAKOVICH PIANO TRIO AND PIANO QUINTET (1978)
(with Edinburgh String Quartet)
format: LP
item number: RL25224
contents: Piano Quintet in G Minor op.57, Piano Trio No.2 in E Minor op.67
SIPARIO DISCHI
*NUOVE SINCRONIE 92
format: CD
item number: sin1012
contents: Donatoni Sincronie (with J. Scalfi(vc))
UNICORN
*BARRAQUE SONATE (re-release) (1978)
format: LP
item number: UNS263
contents: Sonate(Barraque)
WARNER
*RUSTLE OF SPRING (1992)
format: CD
Item number: 90311774722
contents: I Got Rhythm(Gershwin), Fascinating Rhythm(Gershwin), Oh, Lady be Good (Gershwin), Do it again(Gershwin), The man I love(Gershwin), Danny Boy (Grainger), Country Gardens(Grainger), Handel in the Strand(Grainger), Maple Leaf Rag(Joplin), Rustle of Spring(Sinding), Cradle Song(Grieg),
Once upon a time(Grieg), little Troll(Grieg), Moment Musical(Schubert), Standchen(R. Strauss), Spring song(Mendelssohn), Novelette(Schumann),
Scottish dances(Chopin), Intermezzo(Brahms), Waltz(Brahms), Polichinelle(Rachmaninov), Eighteen Variation from Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini(Rachmaninov), tango(Albeniz), Evening in Grenada(Debussy), Arabesque(Debussy), Minstrels(Debussy), I want you-waltz(Satie), John Hector McFarlane and his mother(Gowers) and Forgotten Waltz(Liszt)
*THE MUSIC OF FREDERIC CHOPIN (1992) (re-released 1997)
format: CD
item number: 4509903182
contents: Valse brillante in A flat op.34 No.1, Waltz in F minor op.70 No.2, Waltz in A flat op.42, berceuse in D flat op.57, Etude in A flat op.25 No.1,
Etude in E op.10 No.3, Prelude in A op.28 No.7, Prelude in D flat op.28 No.15 “Raindrop”, Prelude in C minor op.28 No.20, Mazurka in A minor op.59 No.1, Mazurka in A flat op.59 No.2, Mazurka in F sharp minor op.59 No.3, Polonaise in A flat op.53, Prelude in E minor op.28 No.4, Prelude in B minor op.28 No.6, Waltz in D flat op.64 No.1 “Minute”, Waltz in C sharp minor op.64 No.2, Nocturne in F sharp op.15 No.2, Waltz in E minor(No.14) op.Posth, Waltz inG flat op.70 No.1 and ballade in F minor op.52
*OVER THE HILLS AND FAR AWAY (1994)
format: CD
item number: 4509971602
contents: Pleasent Landscape(Smetana), Scotch Strathspey and reel(Grainger), Children’s March"Over the hills and far away”(Grainger), May-Night(Palmgren), Rumanian Folkdances(Bartok), Morning Mood(Peer Gynt)(Grieg), Norwegian Dance op.35 No.2(Grieg), gavvote(Holberg Suite)(Grieg), Homeland(Grieg), Solveig’s Song (Greig), Nocturne no.5(Field), The Music box(Liadov), Russian Dance op.40 No.10 (Tchaikovsky), Malaguena(Albeniz), The banana Tree(Gottschlk), The Heart Asks Pleasure First(from the film ‘The Piano’)(Nyman), Gnossienne No.1(Satie), Nene (Nazareth), Kismet Rag(Joplin), Three Rose Bay Quadrilles(Stanley), Three German Dances D.975 & D.974(Schubert), roses in the Midday Sun(Koechlin), fur alina(Part) and Waltz D.844(Schubert)
*MY FAVOURITE CLASSICS (1995)
format: CD
item number: 0630113862
contents: Fur Elise(Beethoven), Consolation No.3(Liszt), From Foreign Lands and people (Schumann), Dreaming(Schumann), To A Wild Rose(MacDowell), Elves Dance (Grieg), “Moonlight” Sonata(1st. mvt.)(Beethoven), 18th Variation(Rachmaninov), Danny Boy(Grainger), The Man I Love(Gershwin), Moment Musical No.3(Schubert), “Raindrop” Prelude(Chopin), “Minute” Waltz(Chopin), Venetian Gondola Song(Mendelssohn), Clair de Lune(Debussy), Schindler’s List-theme(Williams), Anna Magdalene Notebook(excerpts)(Bach), Gavotte(Bach), The Little Negro(Debussy), Reverie(Tchaikovsky), Gymnopedie No.1(Satie), Scottish Dances(Chopin), Spring Song (Mendelssohn), Handel in the Strand(Grainger), Country Gardens(Grainger) and Cradle Song (Grieg)
KURTUR(VTR)
*The Tchaikovsky 150th Anniversary Concert From China
(with Tan Lihua & Symphony Orchestra of the Central Philharmonic, Beijing)
Format: DVD
Item number: D4000
Contents: Piano Concerto No.1 in B Flat Minor op.23(Tchaikovsky)
This enchanting collection presents some remarkably beautiful but seldom heard masterpieces by Ilinsky, Cui, Suk, Borodin, Palmgren, Fuchs & MacDowell presented alongside lovely pieces by some of the world’s favourite composers. Especially notable are the famous lullabies by Faure & Brahms.
Roger’s performances on LULLABY are, as ever, outstanding in their sensitivity and nuance and only enhance his reputation as one of the world’s great interpreters of classical piano repertoire.
TRACKLISTING
- The heather (Preludes book 2) Debussy
- Song without words (Book 1 Op. 19 No. 4) Mendelssohn
- On wings of song Op. 34 No 2 Mendelssohn
- Sonatina in G Mozart
- Walltz Op. 39 No. 5 Brahms
- Intermezzo Op. 118 No. 2 Brahms
- The girl with flaxen hair (Preludes book 1) Debussy
- The swan (Carnival of the animals) Saint-Saens
- Rondo in C Mozart
- Minuet in C Kv 315g No. 1 Mozart
- Minuet in D Kv 315g No. 3 Mozart
- Minuet in G Kv 315g No. 8 Mozart
- Arietta Mozart
- Arietta (Lyric pieces Op. 12 No. 1) Grieg
- Woodland peace (Lyric pieces Op. 71 No. 4) Grieg
- Funeral march for a marionette Gounod
- Scottish dance Beethoven
- Minuet in G Kv 1 Mozart
- Minuet in F Kv 2 Mozart
- German dance D783 No.7, Waltz D145 No.6,
- Sentimental waltz D779 No.13 Schubert
- Salut d’amour Op. 12 Elgar
- Song without words (Souvenirs de Hapsal Op. 2) Tchaikovsky
- Sad song (12 Morceaux Op 40) Tchaikovsky
- Allegretto D915 Schubert
- Notturno (lyric pieces Op. 54 No. 4) Grieg
- Little piece No. 4 G192 Liszt
REVIEWS
“Woodward’s playing is clean and simple but beautifully detailed . . . The Swan features some supremely elegant playing . . . an ideal gift to any pianophile or student.”
(Soundscapes magazine
“A definate must have . . . no CD collection should be without this disc.”
(Audio and visual lifestyle magazine)
“Australia’s best-known pianist is well at hom
e in the miniature style”
(Melbourne Age Green Guide)
OTHER REVIEWS
PRODUCERS
Andrew McKeich
directly on
amckeich@artworksmusic.com
A beautiful collection featuring music in miniature by Mozart, Schubert, Grieg, Debussy, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Liszt and Beethoven – prominent figures in Roger’s acclaimed 30 year performing career.
It is often forgotten that most classical music of the 18th and 19th centuries was designed purely as popular entertainment and Roger has been a prime mover in re-establishing the popularity of this music in the 20th century. In traditions established by Dame Nellie Melba and Percy Grainger, Roger Woodward tours the country outback of Australia as well as giving recitals in major concert halls. LITTLE MASTERPIECES features many of the pieces that Roger has presented in those very recitals.
TRACKLISTING
- The heather (Preludes book 2) Debussy
- Song without words (Book 1 Op. 19 No. 4) Mendelssohn
- On wings of song Op. 34 No 2 Mendelssohn
- Sonatina in G Mozart
- Walltz Op. 39 No. 5 Brahms
- Intermezzo Op. 118 No. 2 Brahms
- The girl with flaxen hair (Preludes book 1) Debussy
- The swan (Carnival of the animals) Saint-Saens
- Rondo in C Mozart
- Minuet in C Kv 315g No. 1 Mozart
- Minuet in D Kv 315g No. 3 Mozart
- Minuet in G Kv 315g No. 8 Mozart
- Arietta Mozart
- Arietta (Lyric pieces Op. 12 No. 1) Grieg
- Woodland peace (Lyric pieces Op. 71 No. 4) Grieg
- Funeral march for a marionette Gounod
- Scottish dance Beethoven
- Minuet in G Kv 1 Mozart
- Minuet in F Kv 2 Mozart
- German dance D783 No.7, Waltz D145 No.6,
- Sentimental waltz D779 No.13 Schubert
- Salut d’amour Op. 12 Elgar
- Song without words (Souvenirs de Hapsal Op. 2) Tchaikovsky
- Sad song (12 Morceaux Op 40) Tchaikovsky
- Allegretto D915 Schubert
- Notturno (lyric pieces Op. 54 No. 4) Grieg
- Little piece No. 4 G192 Liszt
REVIEWS
“Woodward’s playing is clean and simple but beautifully detailed . . . The Swan features some supremely elegant playing . . . an ideal gift to any pianophile or student.”
(Soundscapes magazine
“A definite must have . . . no CD collection should be without this disc.”
(Audio and visual lifestyle magazine)
“Australia’s best-known pianist is well at home in the miniature style”
(Melbourne Age Green Guide)
OTHER REVIEWS
PRODUCERS
Andrew McKeich
directly on
amckeich@artworksmusic.com