Composer Cyril Scott went to his grave believing his propensity in creating characteristic miniatures was his "undoing." Pianist Leslie De'Ath's retrospective of such short pieces, Cyril Scott: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 4 -- Piano Works 1898-1963 demonstrates that if such was the case, that it wasn't anything stemming from the quality of the ...
Leslie De'Ath has taken up the banner for the music of Cyril Scott, which many feel is long overdue for unfurling again, with a series on Dutton of his piano music. It is easy to hear in the pieces on this first volume why Scott was called "The English Debussy." The extremely colorful, translucent harmonies he uses make his music entrancing, ...
Bass-baritone Daniel Lichti is primarily known in his native Canada, but his performance of Winterreise stands among the finest versions on disc. Lichti's voice is reassuringly solid from top to bottom, and his legato phrasing is seamless. Lichti invests the passages where Schubert calls for real power, such as the end of Gute Nacht, with ...
With Cyril Scott: Lotus Land, Canadian pianist Leslie De'Ath reaches the fifth volume of his complete survey of the piano music of British composer Cyril Scott for Dutton's Epoch series. The conventional wisdom about Scott is that he was a composer of light, insubstantial music for salon pianists and that his compositions are not worth the ...
Leslie De'Ath completely gives into a whim with this album of his favorite pieces by English composer/pianist Billy Mayerl. Mayerl isn't well known outside of England, but in the 1920s and '30s, and afterward, he was on the radio, popular in London's music theaters and operating a correspondence course to teach tens of thousands of people ...
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