Piano solo – original works
Sonatina No. 2
Sonatina No. 3
Three Early Lyric Pieces (Vox Stellarum)
Fugue on a Fragment of Chopin
Three Nativity Pieces (Gold: Children’s March)
Waltzes
Nocturne: Homage to John Field
Variations on a theme of Pizzetti
A 20th Century Music Diary
4 Studies from A 20th Century music Diary (Queen’s Dolour)
Prelude, Fugue & Fantasy (on Busoni’s Faust )
Six Pensées sur des Préludes de Chopin
Passacaglia on DSCH
Little Jazz Variations (on Purcell’s New Scotch Tune)
A Scottish Triptych (Keening song for a Makar)
Two Music Portraits (Valse Charlot)
Three Scots Fairy Tales (What the fairy piper told me)
Melody on a Ground of Glazunov
Peter Grimes Fantasy
Three Scottish Ballads (Lord Randal)
Promenade Pastorale
Recitative and Air on DSCH (In Memoriam Shostakovich)
Sonatina Serenissima
Norse Elegy for Ella Nygaard
Barra Flyting Toccata
Symphonic Elegy for Liszt
Piccolo Niccolò Paganinesco
Ricordanza di San Romerio (A Pilgrimage for Piano)
A Carlyle Suite (Aubade/ Morning song)
Festin d’Alkan
The High Road to Linton
A Rosary of Variations (on O’Riada’s Irish Folk Mass)
Berceuse Symphonique
Ostinato Macabre(on the name Leopold Godowsky)
| RSS 302 | Typeset | 11 pages | Grade (m) | Duration 6’ | £6.50 |
- Adagietto
- Finale: Allegro con moto
| RSS 303 | Typeset | 22 pages | Grade (d) | Duration 6’ | £10.00 |
- In modo di Marcia lenta
- Scherzo: Allegro vivace
- Veloce, leggiero e fantastico
| RSS 304 | Typeset | 20 pages | Grade (m) | Duration 5’, 3, 3½’ | £9.50 |
- Chorale Prelude for Jean Sibelius (1948)
- Vox Stellarum (1947)
- Andante Sereno (1950)
Recorded by Sheena Nicoll on Rhapsody – Lyric Music of Ronald Stevenson Dunelm Records DRD 0268
| RSS 305 | Typeset | 12 pages | Grade (d) | Duration 9’ | £7.00 |
Written for the centenary of Chopin’s death
Recorded by Joseph Banowetz on Stevenson Piano Music Altarus AIR CD 9089
| RSS 306 | Typeset | 20 pages | Grade (m) | Duration 7’ | £9.50 |
- Gold: Children’s March
- Frankincense: Arabesque
- Myrrh: Elegiac carol
Recorded by Sheena Nicoll on Rhapsody – Lyric Music of Ronald Stevenson Dunelm Records DRD 0268
| RSS 307 | Typeset | 18 pages | Grade (d) | Duration 7’ | £8.40 |
Also in a version for orchestra (1952)
| RSS 308 | Typeset | 11 pages | Grade (m) | Duration 6’ | £7.00 |
Also in versions for flute and piano and for clarinet and piano
| RSS 309 | Typescript | 20 pages | Grade (d) | Duration 11’ | £7.00 |
As with the 1961 violin variations, the theme is the Sarabande from Pizzetti’s incidental music to D’Annunzio’s drama La Pisanella (1913), but the two sets of variations are otherwise entirely different
| RSS 310 | Manuscript | 39 pages | Grade (m) | Duration 20’ | £10.50 |
- Preludio al corale
- Vivace scherzoso
- Andante con moto
- Allegro risoluto
- Andante
- Allegretto
- Allegro scherzoso
- Con moto amabile
- Canone: Andantino lagrimoso. In Memoriam Bernard van Dieren
- Motivo: Largo drammatico – Agitato volante (cavalcata notturna) [based on BACH]
- Allegro moderato (7 variations on the note-row in the Statue Scene of Don Giovanni)
- Allegro moderato (7 variations on a theme from Berlioz’s Damnation of Faust)
- Allegro molto (fugue on a subject from Busoni’s Arlecchino)
- Lento assai (on the 12 note theme from Liszt’s Faust Symphony)
- Lento
- Andante
Recorded by Joseph Banowetz on Stevenson Piano Music Altarus AIR CD 9089
| RSS 311 | Typeset | 15 pages | Grade (m) | Duration 7’ | £8.50 |
- Motivo: Largo drammatico – Agitato volante (cavalcata notturna) [based on BACH]
- Allegro moderato (7 variations on the note-row in the Statue Scene of Don Giovanni)
- Allegro moderato (7 variations on a theme from Berlioz’s Damnation of Faust)
- Allegro molto (fugue on a subject from Busoni’s Arlecchino)
Recorded by Joseph Banowetz on Stevenson Piano Music Altarus AIR CD 9089
| RSS 312 (Publ. Novello) | Typeset | 42 pages | Grade (d) | Duration 28’ | £10.50 |
- Prelude: Largo
- Fugue: Tempo giusto
- Fantasy: Adagio
In its orchestral version (slightly expanded), this work forms the Piano Concerto no. 1
Recorded by Ronald Stevenson on Ronald Stevenson piano works Altarus AIR CD 9091;
also on The Essence of Busoni Altarus AIR CD 9041;
and on 20th-Century Operatic Fantasias Altarus AIR CD9042
| RSS 314 | Typeset | 141 pages | Grade (d) | Duration 80–85’ | £29.00 |
(reprint of Polskie Wydawnictivo Muzyczne edition)
Pars Prima:
Sonata Allegro
Waltz in rondo-form
Episode
Suite (Prelude, Sarabande, Jig, Sarabande. Minuet, Jig, Gavotte, Polonaise)
Pibroch (Lament for the Children)
Episode: Arabesque Variations)
Nocturne
Pars altera
Reverie-Fantasy
Fanfare – Forebodings: Alarm – Glimpse of a War-Vision
Variations on “Peace, Bread & the Land” (1917)
Symphonic March
Episode
Fandango
Pedal-point: “To emergent Africa”
Central Episode: études
Variations in C minor
Pars tertia
Adagio: Tribute to Bach
Triple Fugue over Ground Bass –
Subject I: Andamente
Subject II: B A C H
Subject III: Dies Irae
Final variations (Adagissimo barocco)
Recorded by Ronald Stevenson on Ronald Stevenson piano works Altarus AIR CD 9091
Recorded by Murray McLachlan on Stevenson: Passacaglia on DSCH Divine-Art 25013
Composer’s manuscript version
Cf above for section titles
Recorded by Ronald Stevenson on Ronald Stevenson piano works Altarus AIR CD 9091
Recorded by Murray McLachlan on Stevenson: Passacaglia on DSCH Divine-Art 25013
- Croon
- Drone
- Reel
- Spiel
Recorded by Ronald Brautigam on Essentially Scottish, Piano music from Scotland Koch-Schwann 3-1590-2 (no longer available)
| RSS 317 | Typeset | 6 pages | Grade (m) | Duration 8’ | £5.90 |
Formerly Simple Variations on Purcell’s New Scotch Tune
The 1975 revision, undertaken at the instigation of Louis Kentner, entailed the addition of three variations in a more virtuosic style and the renaming of the work.
| RSS 318 | Typeset | 26 pages | Grade (d) | Duration 7+5+5 | £12.00 |
- Keening Sang for a Makar: In Memoriam Francis George Scott (1959)
- Heroic Sang for Hugh MacDiarmid (1967)
- Chorale Pibroch for Sorley MacLean (1967)
Incorporates the Pibroch: Calum Salum’s Salute to the Seals (original written for the highland bagpipes).
Recorded by Joseph Banowetz on Stevenson Piano Music Altarus AIR CD 9089
No. 2 recorded by Ronald Stevenson on Cathedrals in Sound Altarus AIR CD 9043
| RSS 320 | Typeset | 6 pages | Grade (e) | Duration 5’ | £5.00 |
- What the Fairy Piper told me
- What the Fairy Harper told me
- What the Fairy Fiddler told me
No. 2 may be performed on clarsach
| RSS 322 (Publ. Boosey) | Typeset | 12 pages | Grade (a) | Duration 7’ | £8.95 |
Recorded by Ronald Stevenson on 20th-Century Operatic Fantasias Altarus AIR CD9042
| RSS 323 | Typeset | 13 pages | Grade (m) | Duration 10’ | £8.00 |
- Lord Randall
- The Dowie Dens o’Yarrow
- Newhaven Fish-wife’s Cry
Nos. 2 and 3 recorded by Murray McLachlan on Piano Music from Scotland Olympia OCD 264
Recorded by Ronald Brautigam on Essentially Scottish: Piano music from Scotland Koch-Schwann 3-1590-2 (no longer available)
| RSS 324 | Typeset | 4 pages | Grade (m) | Duration 3’ | £4.50 |
Homage à Francis Poulenc et à Graham Johnson
| RSS 325 | Typeset | 4 pages | Grade (m) | Duration 5’ | £5.00 |
Commissioned for a 70th-birthday Festschrift; the subtitle was added when Shostakovich died before his 70th birthday.
Recorded by Ronald Stevenson on Ronald Stevenson piano works Altarus AIR CD 9091
| RSS 328 | Typeset | 8 pages | Grade (m) | Duration 5’ | £6.50 |
- Barcaroletta
- Fughetta
- Chorale
- Carol
Recorded by Anthony Goldstone on The Britten Connection Gamut Classics GAM CD 526 No longer available. Copies still with RSS
| RSS 329 | Typeset | 7 pages | Grade (d) | Duration 4’ | £6.00 |
Recorded by Donna Amato on Piano Music by Stevenson, Sorabji and Hinton on Altarus AIR CD9021
| RSS 330 | Typeset | 4 pages | Grade (d) | Duration 2’ | £4.50 |
Allegro con spirito, F sharp major (Lydian)
| RSS 331 | Typeset | 15 pages | Grade (d) | Duration 11’ | £9.00 |
Recorded by Joseph Banowetz on Stevenson Piano Music Altarus AIR CD 9089
Recorded by Sheena Nicoll on Rhapsody – Lyric Music of Ronald Stevenson Dunelm Records DRD 0268
| RSS 332 | Typeset | 8 pages | Grade (d) | Duration 3’ | £6.50 |
Dedication: “To Laurenzio Guantaio” (Lawrence Glover)
Large portions of this piece are reworked from No. 10 of A 20th Century Music Diary.
Dedicated to Joseph Banowetz
Recorded by Joseph Banowetz on Stevenson Piano Music Altarus AIR CD 9089
Commissioned by the Scottish International Piano Competition as test-piece for Round 2 of the 1990 competition
Recorded by Murray McLachlan on Piano Music from Scotland Olympia OCD 264
Recorded by Donna Amato on Piano Music by Stevenson etc Altarus AIR CD9021
| RSS 336 | Manuscript | 29 pages | Grade (m) | Duration 35’ | £9.80 |
- Aubade – “Here is dawning/Another blue day” (Carlyle)
- Souvenir de Salon (Jane Welsh Carlyle listens to Chopin): Introduction – Andante – Prelude alla mazurka – Alla strathspey – Andante (Polish folk carol) – Poco lento (Souvenir of Scots psalm Martyrs) – Psalm and Mazurka combined – Postlude –
- Encore: Valse à deux temps
- Variations – Study in historical styles on Frederick the Great’s Theme [as used by Bach in A Musical Offering, 1747]: Maestoso barocco – Allegro rococo [with Alberti bass] – Allegro ardente, romantico – Modéré impressionistico – Recitative and March – 12-note expressionist – Calmo: sketch for new classicality!
- Jane Carlyle’s Wit: scherzino
- Serenade (referring to the Aubade
Commissioned by Dumfries & Galloway Arts Association to commemorate the bi-centenary of the birth of Thomas Carlyle in 1795.
Recorded by Sheena Nicoll on Rhapsody – Lyric Music of Ronald Stevenson Dunelm Records DRD 0268
| RSS 337 | Manuscript | 65 pages | Grade (d) | Duration 35’ | £16.50 |
Concerto for solo piano without orchestra: “Petit concert en forme d’études”
- Free composition
- Free transcription (of Alkan’s Barcarolle in G minor, Chants, Book III, op65/6
- Free multiple variations
Composer’s note: “This work encapsulates my idea that composition, transcription and variation are all essentially the same thing”.
| RSS 338 | Typeset | 7 pages | Grade (m) | Duration 3’ | £5.50 |
Toccata-Reel for piano. Includes a Coda by John Fritzell
RSS 341 | Manuscript | 23 pages | Grade (d) | Duration 12’ | £8.40 pdf only |
(nb the main version is the one for orchestra : RSS 101)
RSS 348D | Manuscript | 3 page | Grade (m) | Duration 2’ | £3.30 |