Anthony Newman : Nine Sonatas for Piano Solo: 1987 to the Present Day

Virtuoso neo-classical piano works composed and performed by American keyboard master Anthony Newman.

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Nine Sonatas for Piano Solo: 1987 to the Present Day

Anthony Newman - Piano, Composer

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Sonata No. 6 by Anthony Newman
Theme and 12 Variations	01.	I. Theme and 12 Variations 14:45
Romance	02.	II. Romance 2:52
Fantasia on Stravinsky's 'Babel'	03.	III. Fantasia on Stravinsky's 'Babel' 4:34

Sonata of the Americas by Anthony Newman
Allegro maestoso	04.	I. Allegro maestoso 7:05
Largo	05.	II. Largo 4:41
Variations on 'Battle Hymn of the Republic'	06.	III. Variations on 'Battle Hymn of the Republic' 8:18

Portrait Sonata by Anthony Newman
Debussy	07.	I. Debussy 5:47
Stravinsky	08.	II. Stravinsky 2:36
Beethoven	09.	III. Beethoven 3:40
Mozart	10.	IV. Mozart 5:24

Partita for Harpsichord by Anthony Newman
Fantasia	11.	I. Fantasia 2:53
Allemande	12.	II. Allemande 2:42
Courante	13.	III. Courante 2:15
Sarabande	14.	IV. Sarabande 2:14
Gigue	15.	V. Gigue 5:00

Sonata on the Elements by Anthony Newman
Water	16.	I. Water 7:26
Earth	17.	II. Earth 2:45
Air and Fire	18.	III. Air and Fire 6:26

Variations on B-A-C-H by Anthony Newman
Var. 1-6	19.	I. Var. 1-6 5:05
Var. 7-11	20.	II. Var. 7-11 4:47
Var. 12-19	21.	III. Var. 12-19 5:30
Var. 20-27	22.	IV. Var. 20-27 4:15
Var. 28-29	23.	V. Var. 28-29 1:41
Var. 30	24.	VI. Var. 30 5:14

Sonata No. 7 by Anthony Newman
Requiem	25.	I. Requiem 4:52
Adagio Celeste	26.	II. Adagio Celeste 2:34
Fugue on B-A-C-H	27.	III. Fugue on B-A-C-H 4:42

Sonata No. 8 by Anthony Newman
Litanies	28.	I. Litanies 3:58
Passascaglia	29.	II. Passascaglia 2:43
Variations on 'My Country 'tis of Thee'	30.	III. Variations on 'My Country 'tis of Thee' 4:25

Sonata No. 9 by Anthony Newman
Tango	31.	I. Tango 3:45
Poco Adagio	32.	II. Poco Adagio 4:19
'Hammer Klavier' Fugue	33.	III. 'Hammer Klavier' Fugue 5:28

Total Playing Time: 2:34:41

Anthony Newman

Described by Wynton Marsalis as "The High Priest of Bach", and by Time Magazine as "The High Priest of the Harpsichord," Newman continues his 50 year career as America's leading organist, harpsichordist and Bach specialist.

His prodigious recording output includes more than 170 CDs on such labels as CBS, SONY, Deutsche Grammaphon, and Vox Masterworks. In 1989, Stereo Review voted his original instrument recording of Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto as "Record of the Year". His collaboration with Wynton Marsalis on Sony's "In Gabriel's Garden" was the best selling classical CD in 1997.

As keyboardist, he has performed more than sixty times at Lincoln Center in New York, and has collaborated with many of the greats of music: Kathleen Battle, Itzhak Perlman, Eugenia Zukerman, John Nelson, Jean-Pierre Rampal, James Levine, Lorin Mazel, Mstislav Rostropovich, Seji Osawa, and Leonard Bernstein.

As conductor, he has worked with the greats of chamber music orchestras: St. Paul Chamber, LA Chamber, Budapest Chamber, Scottish Chamber, and the 92nd St. Y Chamber Orchestras. Larger symphonic groups include: Seattle (over 40 appearances), Los Angeles, San Diego, Calgary, Denver, and New York Philharmonic Orchestras.

No less prodigious a composer, his works have been heard in Paris, Vienna, Budapest, Krakow, Warsaw, New York, and London. His output includes 4 symphonies, 4 concerti, 3 large choral works, 2 operas: Nicole, and Massacre (in collaboration with Charles Flowers), 3 CDs of piano music, and a large assortment of chamber, organ and guitar works. Complete works are published by Ellis Press. Newman has received 30 consecutive composer's awards from ASCAP.

Newman is music director of "Bach Works," New York's all Bach association, and Bedford Chamber Concerts; is on the Visiting Committee for the Department of Musical Instruments at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; and on the board of the Musical Quarterly Magazine. As a person committed to outreach, he was a volunteer for Stamford Hospital, a member of Hospice International from 1995 to 2004. Newman is music director of St. Matthews Episcopal Church in Bedford NY.

Newman is a Yamaha Artist, and a proud alumnus of Young Concert Artists.