Stevenson - Passacaglia on DSCH; Excerpts (Part 1/3)

[lovesGenet]

had read about thi s.i knew if i came here I might find a performance.thans so very much.Old fashioned music really but pianistic and i like it's breat and urgency forward.

[Zantorc]

Interesting... I've got a version of this played by Stevenson himself.

[fowlerbckuk]

I heard Murray McLachlan perform this live in the presence of the composer two years ago in Edinburgh. What you refer to as electronic effects were in fact produced by holding down the dampers, by placing paper on top of the strings and by playing the strings by hand. This had been done in consultation with Ronald Stevenson himself. What I would pay to have a copy of McLachlan's annotated score...

[Hexameron]

Interesting - thank you for the clarification.

[lsbrother]

Is that what is happening at 8:43 for about 30secs?

Odd, but not that odd, an effect - what was the point? Did McL just take it into his head to do that or had Stevenson previously asked for some such?

[experimentalis]

Many many thanks

[3cplantin]

Thanks very much, Hexameron. Once again a musical landmark, with score, for us to confront! BTW, the DSCH combination was used by Shostakovich in some his works as a kind of signature tune (like B A C H is used in works of Bach and later composers who wanted to honor him). What a gargantuan work!

[KeithWhalen11]

Yes! I've been wanting to hear this for a while now. I just pressed play, I wanted to thank you first.

[sparkyfry]

You are an impressive YouTube contributor indeed, Hexameron.

[JCHBONNET]

I like Stevenson's comment about living in an "epic age". The XX century was certainly epic !

[addeex1]

wonderful, thank you :D<3