Peter Donohoe - Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues (2017)

Written in 1950-51, Shostakovich's 24 Preludes and Fugues are an obvious answer to those who know you, especially since the composer got there after being a jury in the first edition of the competition, You know in Leipzig. For this contest, the young Tatiana Nikolayeva won the prizes and the votes, and it was for her that Shostakovich conceived her own cycle. Unlike the Preludes and Fugues by Bach (here, cited here), which follow each other by following the "suite of the fifths" with alternating major and minor tones according to their relative harmonic relations. In other words, if the first pair is in C major, the second is in C minor, C minor, G major, C major. While in Le Clavier well tempered, the first is in C major, the second in C minor, the third in C sharp major, rising one semitone chromatic each time. Neither system has more validity than the other, of course; What matters is the architectural rigor, the foundation of the idea. It will be noticed, of course, that Shostakovich does not escape the universal gravitation of the sun Bach, and even that he accepts it with happiness. Here at the piano Peter Donohoe, a disciple of Messiaen, Loriod, Perlemuter, Kocsis, whose career led him across the musical planet not only as a virtuoso pianist, but also as an orchestral keyboard (sometimes pianos, Orchestra: 3rd Symphony of Saint-Saëns, 5th of Prokofiev, Lélio or the return to the life of Berlioz, Stravinski's Petrouchka, and so many others), jazz improviser, founder of a rock band, virtuoso of the vibraphone, The rock and jazz drums, the tuba, the cimbalom, in short, a musician endowed with an immense artistic curiosity which makes him approach this repertoire with as much humility as of experience.

TRACKLIST

CD1

01. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Prelude No. 1 in C Major "Moderato"
02. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Fugue No. 1 in C Major "Moderato"
03. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Prelude No. 2 in A Minor "Allegro"
04. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Fugue No. 2 in A Minor "Allegretto"
05. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Prelude No. 3 in G Major "Moderato non troppo"
06. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Fugue No. 3 in G Major "Allegro molto"
07. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Prelude No. 4 in E Minor "Andante"
08. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Fugue No. 4 in E Minor "Adagio"
09. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Prelude No. 5 in D Major "Allegretto"
10. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Fugue No. 5 in D Major "Allegretto"
11. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Prelude No. 6 in B Minor "Allegretto"
12. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Fugue No. 6 in B Minor "Allegro poco moderato"
13. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Prelude No. 7 in A Major "Allegro poco moderato"
14. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Fugue No. 7 in A Major "Allegretto"
15. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Prelude No. 8 in F-Sharp Minor "Allegretto"
16. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Fugue No. 8 in F-Sharp Minor "Andante"
17. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Prelude No. 9 in E Major "Moderato non troppo"
18. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Fugue No. 9 in E Major "Allegro"
19. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Prelude No. 10 in C-Sharp Minor "Allegro"
20. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Fugue No. 10 in C-Sharp Minor "Moderato"
21. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Prelude No. 11 in B Major "Allegro"
22. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Fugue No. 11 in B Major "Allegro"
23. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Prelude No. 12 in G-Sharp Minor "Andante"
24. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Fugue No. 12 in G-Sharp Minor "Allegro"
25. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Prelude No. 13 in F-Sharp Major "Moderato con moto"
26. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Fugue No. 13 in F-Sharp Major "Adagio"

CD2

01. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Prelude No. 14 in E-Flat Minor "Adagio"
02. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Fugue No. 14 in E-Flat Minor "Allegro non troppo"
03. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Prelude No. 15 in D-Flat Major "Moderato non troppo"
04. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Fugue No. 15 in D-Flat Major "Allegretto"
05. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Prelude No. 16 in B-Flat Minor "Allegro molto"
06. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Fugue No. 16 in B-Flat Major "Andante"
07. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Prelude No. 17 in A-Flat Major "Allegretto"
08. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Fugue No. 17 in A-Flat Major "Allegretto"
09. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Prelude No. 18 in F Minor "Moderato"
10. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Fugue No. 18 in F Minor "Moderato con moto"
11. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Prelude No. 19 in E-Flat Major "Allegretto"
12. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Fugue No. 19 in E-Flat Major "Moderato con moto"
13. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Prelude No. 20 in C Minor "Adagio"
14. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Fugue No. 20 in C Minor "Moderato"
15. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Prelude No. 21 in B-Flat Major "Allegro"
16. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Fugue No. 21 in B-Flat Major "Allegro non troppo"
17. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Prelude No. 22 in G Minor "Moderato non troppo"
18. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Fugue No. 22 in G Minor "Moderato"
19. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Prelude No. 23 in F Major "Adagio"
20. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Fugue No. 23 in F Major "Moderato con moto"
21. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Prelude No. 24 in D Minor "Andante"
22. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Fugue No. 24 in D Minor "Moderato"