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Anthony Romaniuk's 2020 album 'Bells' featured the pianist playing short works and
improvising on multiple keyboard instruments, it was a release that felt as much like
a playlist as an album, and Jed Distler welcomed it warmly: 'An eloquently restrained

improvisation featuring a reiterated C natural pedal point in the left hand assiduously
slips into Shostakovich’s C major Prelude and Fugue. It’s a perfect piece for

Romaniuk to decompress from his eclectic, imaginatively programmed keyboard
journey.' (Read the full review).

'Perpetuum' picks up where 'Bells' left off, featuring music by Kapsberger, Scarlatti,
Purcell, Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, Ravel,

Satie, Ligeti, Adams and improvisations by Romaniuk, played on a Fazioli concert
piano, a Graf fortepiano from 1835, a Flemish muselar, a seventeenth-century