Published Work

 



published work

Instrumental

INSTRUMENTAL WORKS

◊ Piano solo

song cycles

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Ronald Stevenson piano works

| RSS 963 | Altarus AIR CD 9091 [2CDs] | Duration 116’ | £25.00 |

Ronald Stevenson, piano

  1. Prelude, Fugue & Fantasy on Busoni’s Faust (1959)
  2. Recitative and Air on DSCH: In Memoriam Shostakovich (1974)
  3. Passacaglia on DSCH (1960—62)

song cycles

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Stevenson: Passacaglia on DSCH — Murray McLachlan

| Divine-Art 25013 | Duration 76’ | £12.99 |

Murray McLachlan, piano

  • Passacaglia on DSCH (1960—62)

Stevenson Piano Music

| RSS 965 | Altarus AIR CD 9089 | £13.00 |

Joseph Banowetz, piano

  1. Fugue on a Fragment of Chopin (1948)
  2. A 20th Century Music Diary (1953—59)
  3. Symphonic Elegy for Liszt (1986)
  4. A Scottish Triptych (1959—67)
    • Keening Sang for a Makar: In Memoriam Francis George Scott (1959)
    • Heroic Sang for Hugh MacDiarmid (1967)
    • Chorale Pibroch for Sorley MacLean (1967)
  5. Motus Perpetuus (?) Temporibus Fatalibus (1987—88)

Piano Music by Stevenson, Sorabji and Hinton

| RSS 966 | Altarus AIR CD9021 | £13.00 |

Donna Amato, piano

  1. Ronald Stevenson
    • Den Bergtekne, ballad after Grieg
    • Norse Elegy for Ella Nygaard
    • Beltane Bonfire
  2. Kaikhosru Sorabji
    • Variazione maliziosa e perversa sopra La morte d’Åse da Grieg
  3. Alastair Hinton
    • Variations and Fugue on a theme of Grieg

Rhapsody — Lyric Music of Ronald Stevenson

| Dunelm Records DRD 0268 | Duration 78’ | £12.50 |

Sheena Nicoll, piano

  • Three Lyric Pieces (1947—50)
  • Three Nativity Pieces (1949)
  • Symphonic Elegy for Liszt (1986)
  • A Carlyle Suite (1995)
  • Scottish Folk Music Settings

      2. Waly, Waly
      3. A rosebud by my Early Walk
      8. The Hielan Widow's Lament
      9. Hard is my Fate
      10. Ne'erday Sang

Piano Music from Scotland

| RSS 961 | Regis Records AF433 | Duration 77’ | £6.00 |

Awarded Penguin Guide rosette

Murray McLachlan, piano

  1. Francis George Scott, Eight songs, transcribed by Ronald Stevenson
  2. Ronald Center, Piano Sonata, Six Bagatelles, Children at Play
  3. Ronald Stevenson, Beltane Bonfire
  4. Ronald Stevenson, Two Scottish Ballads:
    • The Dowie Dens o’Yarrow
    • Newhaven Fish-wife’s Cry

song cycles

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Stevenson plays Grainger: Salute to Scotland

| RSS 962 | Altarus AIR CD 9040 | £13.00 |

Ronald Stevenson, piano

  1. Grainger-Stevenson, Hill-Song no. 1
  2. Traditional-Grainger, Songs of the North
    • Willie’s gane to Melville Castle
    • Weaving song
    • Skye boat song
    • This is no my plaid
    • Turn ye to me
    • Drowned
    • Fair young Mary
    • Lizzie Lindsay
    • The women are a’ gane wud
    • My faithful fond one
    • Bonnie George Campbell
    • O’er the moor
    • Gin I were where Gowrie rins
    • Mo Ninghean Dhu
  3. Grainger-Stevenson, Three Scotch Folksongs
    • Will ye gang to the Hielands, Leezie Lindsay
    • Mo Ninghean Dhu
    • Gin I were where Gadie rins
  4. Grainger, Scotch Strathspey and Reel

song cycles

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Cathedrals in Sound

| RSS 964 | Altarus AIR CD 9043 | £13.00 |

Ronald Stevenson, piano

  1. Liszt, Carillon (Die Weinachtsbaum)
  2. Chopin, Prelude in C minor
  3. Chopin, Nocturne in C minor
  4. Debussy, La Cathédrale engloutie
  5. Marek, Tryptique
  6. MacDowell, In deep woods
  7. Stevenson, Heroic song for Hugh MacDiarmid
  8. Liszt, Abendglocken (Die Weinachtsbaum)
  9. Sorabji, Fantasiettina
  10. Bach-Busoni, Chaconne in D minor

The Essence of Busoni

| RSS 968 | Altarus AIR CD9041  | £13.00 |

Ronald Stevenson, piano

    Busoni:
    Toccata
    Variations on a Chopin Prelude
    Prélude et étude en arpèges
    Tanzwaltzer
    Epilogue, from An die Jugend

    Stevenson:
    Prelude, Fugue & Fantasy on Busoni’s Faust (1959)

song cycles

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Twentieth-Century Operatic Fantasias

| RSS 969 | Altarus AIR CD9042 | £13.00 |

  1. Ronald Stevenson, Prelude, Fugue & Fantasy on Busoni’s Faust (1959)
  2. Richard Strauss-Percy Grainger, Rosenkavalier-Ramble
  3. Alban Berg-Ronald Stevenson, Wiegenlied aus Wozzeck
  4. Alan Bush-Ronald Stevenson, The Minstrel’s Lay, from Wat Tyler
  5. Benjamin Britten-Ronald Stevenson, Peter Grimes Fantasy

Essentially Scottish. Piano music from Scotland

| RSS 970 | Koch-Schwann 3-1590-2 | Duration 67’ | No longer available |

Ronald Brautigam, piano

Ronald Stevenson

  1. South Uist Folksong Suite
  2. A Wheen Tunes for Bairns tae Spiel
  3. Three Scottish Ballads

and works by Cramer, Kiallmark, MacKenzie, Bantock and Chisolm

The Britten Connection

| RSS 971 | Gamut Classics GAM CD 526 | no longer available | Copies still with RSS |

Anthony Goldstone, piano

  • Stevenson, Sonatina Serenissima
  • works by Bridge, Ireland, Britten, L. Berkeley and Matthews

song cycles

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The Transcendental Tradition. Ronald Stevenson in Concert. Vancouver, 21 April 1976

| Appian Publications and Recordings APR 5630 | Duration 76’ | £10.00 |

  1. Stevenson: Peter Grimes Fantasy (duration 7’00”)
  2. Stevenson: Prelude, Fugue and Fantasy on themes from Busoni’s Doktor Faust (duration 27’10”)
  3. works by Schubert/Liszt, Chopin/Godowsky, Gluck/Alkan, Strauss/Grainger, Gershwin/Grainger and Bach/Busoni

The Art of Transcription

Including the Peter Grimes Fantasy

Risto-Matti Marin, piano

| Alba Records, Finland, ABCD 240 | (‚¬22.00) |

◊ Organ

Bridgewater Hall Organ

| RSS 976 | ASC Records, ASC CS CD 42 | £13.00 |

  1. Stevenson: Reflections on an Old Scots Psalm Tune (1965)
  2. Stevenson: Fugue on a Shepherd’s Air from Tristan and Isolde
  3. Works by Bach, Pitfield, Glinka arr. Battiwalla, Saint-Saëns arr. Lemare, Duruflé and Dukas arr. J. Scott.

Jonathan Scott (Bridgewater Hall organ, Manchester)

In Memoriam John Ogdon (1937—1989)

| RSS 975 | Altarus AIR CD9063 (2) | £25.00 |

Kevin Bowyer, organ:

  1. Stevenson, Prelude and Fugue on a theme by Liszt
  2. Hinton, Pansophiae for John Ogdon

John Ogdon, piano:

  1. Busoni, Fantasia Contrappuntistica
  2. Busoni, Fantasia nach J. S. Bach
  3. Stevenson, Sonatina no. 1
  4. Ogdon, Dance Suite

◊ Solo violin

Slavický — Stevenson — Fišer — Hanuš

| RSS 973 | Waldmann JW 014 | Duration 67’ | £13.00 |

Petr Macecek, violin

  • Stevenson, Scots Suite (duration 23’31”)
  • and works by Slavický, Fišer and Hanuš