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, ...
Titled Horizons and subtitled "A Personal Collection of Piano Encores," Leif Ove Andsnes' 2006 release can only make longtime fans of his playing ask three little questions: Andsnes? Encores? Really? A self-confessed "very serious young pianist" who played "only the most important repertoire," Andsnes had heretofore always seemed to be the ...
Compared with the uncounted tragedies of the First World War, the eclipsing of the career of English composer Cyril Scott may seem less than momentous. Yet he was a highly original fin de sičcle English composer whose music was nevertheless suffused with the ardent yearning, passionate sensuality, and philosophical idealism of its time and whose ...
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 ...
Despite what the French, Germans, and Italians may believe, England has produced great composers: Byrd, Tallis, Dowland, Purcell, Elgar, Vaughan Williams, and Britten are all indisputably great composers. But England, like the other great nations of Europe, has also had its share of deeply mediocre composers. The generation of English composers ...
In the early years of the twentieth century, composer Cyril Scott was briefly heralded as one of the brightest hopes for English music, but after the First World War, as public tastes shifted, his work fell out of favor with audiences, and it was only toward the end of the twentieth century that a critical reappraisal began. His music, which was ...
In BIS' Chinoiserie, pianist Jenny Lin brings one of the most compelling and relevant themed recitals to be heard on disc in years, a collection of pieces by Western composers that attempts to explore the subject of China in some regard, not only musically but culturally.It is said that bandleader Cab Calloway once upbraided a young trumpeter in ...
The May 1915 premiere of Cyril Scott's Piano Concerto No. 1, given by Thomas Beecham at Queen's Hall with the composer at the piano, represented the peak of Scott's career in "serious" music and, in the short term, the work proved influential among young composers in England. Little did the 35-year-old composer realize that he was entering into a ...
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