Recordings

The Complete Works for Solo Piano of Lukas FossThe Complete Works for Solo Piano of Lukas Foss (2002)

Lukas Foss (1922-2009)

Album Tracks

  1. Grotesque Dance (1938)
    Four Two-Voiced Inventions (1938)
  2. I: Andante
  3. II: Allegretto
  4. III: Tranquillo ma mosso
  5. IV: Molto vivace
  6. Passacaglia (1941)
  7. Fantasy Rondo (1946)
  8. Prelude in D (1951)
  9. Scherzo Ricercato (1953)
  10. Solo (1981)
  11. For Lenny [Variation on New York, New York] (1988)
  12. Interview of Mr. Foss by Mr. Beliavsky (2002)

Recorded July 2002 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

The interview with Mr. Foss was made in his New York City home in May 2002.

Piano: Steinway & Sons
Sonatabop.com recordings
© Daniel Beliavsky 2002

From Italy To RussiaFrom Italy to Russia (2004)

Album Tracks

Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)

  1. Sonata in E major, K. 380
  2. Sonata in G minor, K. 546
  3. Sonata in E major, K. 531

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Italian Concerto, BWV 971

  1. I. (without tempo indication)
  2. II. Andante
  3. III. Presto

Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (1839-1881)

Pictures from an Exhibition

  1. Promenade
    Gnome
    Promenade
    The Old Castle
    Promenade
    Tuileries (Children’s Quarrel after Playing)
    Bydlo (The Oxcart)
    Promenade
    Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks
    Two Jews, One Rich and the Other Poor (Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuyle)
    Promenade
    Limoges. The Market.
    Catacombs. Roman Sepulchre.
    Promenade. Con Mortuis in Lingua Mortua (With the Dead in a Dead Language)
    The Hut on Chicken Legs (Baba-Yaga)
    The Great Gate (in the Capital, Kiev)
  1. From Memories of Childhood: Nanny and I
  2. Meditation: Album Leaf
  3. Hopak of the Merry Young Ukrainians, from The Fair at Sorochintsy
  4. A Conversation about Pictures from an Exhibition

Mr. Beliavsky and Professor Kidgi

Recorded June 8-9, 2003 at the Fine Arts Recital Hall, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Piano: Steinway & Sons
Sonatabop.com recordings
© Daniel Beliavsky 2004

Ecstasy and PoetryEcstasy and Poetry (2004)

Album Tracks

CD 1

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

  1. Impromptu Op. 90, No. 3
  2. Impromptu Op. 90, No. 4
  3. Impromptu Op. 142, No. 2
  4. Impromptu Op. 142, No. 3
  5. Moment Musicaux Op. 94, No. 3
  6. Moment Musicaux Op. 94, No. 6

Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)

  1. Fantasy-Impromptu Op. 66
  2. Nocturne Op. 9, No. 2
  3. Nocturne Op. 32, No. 1
  4. Nocturne Op. 72, No. 1
  5. Ballade Op. 23, No. 1
  6. Mazurka Op. 7, No. 3
  7. Mazurka Op. 17, No. 4
  8. Mazurka Op. 41, No. 2
  9. Polonaise Op. 53, “Heroic”

CD 2

  1. Introduction, spoken by Daniel Beliavsky
  2. A Conversation between Daniel Beliavsky and Professor Ulysses Kidgi

Recorded July 13-15, 2004 at the Schwan Concert Hall in the Center for the Arts and Performance, Wisconsin Lutheran College in Milwaukee.

Piano: Steinway & Sons
Sonatabop.com recordings
© Daniel Beliavsky 2004

Early Piano WorksEarly Piano Works by Donald Harris and David Del Tredici (2011)

Album Tracks

Donald Harris (b. 1931)

Sonata for Piano (1957)

  1. I: Fast
  2. II: Very slow
  3. III: Very fast
  4. IV: Theme and Variations
    Theme: slow with expression
    Variation 1: a little slower
    Variation 2: a little faster
    Variation 3: broadly
    Variation 4: expressively
    Variation 5: waltz
    Coda: calm

David Del Tredici (b. 1937)

Fantasy Pieces (1960)

  1. I: Adagio
  2. II: Poco allegretto
  3. III: Allegro minacciando (…Diabolique)
  4. IV: Largo

Sonata for Piano recorded May 2010 at the City College of New York
Fantasy Pieces recorded February 2011 at the City College of New York

Piano: Steinway & Sons
Opus1films recordings
© Opus1films 2011
© Daniel Beliavsky 2011