Cyril Scott: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 1

Cyril Scott: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 1

Cyril Scott: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 1
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Composer: Cyril Scott
Performer: Leslie De'Ath
Performer: Cyril Scott
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2005-06-14
Music Label: Dutton Labs UK
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Valse caprice, for piano, Op. 74/7 (W 396)
  2. Requiescat, for piano (W 288)
  3. Vistas, for piano (W 409): A Lonely Dell
  4. Vistas, for piano (W 409): In the Forest
  5. Vistas, for piano (W 409): The Jocund Dance
  6. Cherry Ripe, for piano (W 60)
  7. Autumn Idyll, for piano (W 25)
  8. Notturno for piano, Op. 54/5 (W 220)
  9. Old Country Dances (3) for piano (W 226): Allegretto
  10. Old Country Dances (3) for piano (W 226): Andante cantabile
  11. Old Country Dances (3) for piano (W 226): Allegro
  12. Alpine Sketches (2) , for piano, Op. 54/4 (W 10): Rather Slowly
  13. Alpine Sketches (2) , for piano, Op. 54/4 (W 10): Allegretto non troppo
  14. Sphinx, for piano, Op. 63 (W 348)
  15. Vesperale, for piano, Op. 40/2 (W 401)
  16. Pastorals (3) for piano, (W 242): Allegretto
  17. Pastorals (3) for piano, (W 242): Con delicatezza (Quickly)
  18. Pastorals (3) for piano, (W 242): Pensoso (Allegretto moderato)
  19. Dances (3), for piano, Op. 20 (W 87): Gavotte
  20. Dances (3), for piano, Op. 20 (W 87): Eastern Dance
  21. Dances (3), for piano, Op. 20 (W 87): English Dance
  22. Twilight-tide, for piano (W 390)
  23. A Pageant, 3 dances for piano (W 234): Sentimental Waltz
  24. A Pageant, 3 dances for piano (W 234): Exotic Dance
  25. A Pageant, 3 dances for piano (W 234): Processional Dance
  26. Miniatures, for piano (W 202): To an Old Machine
  27. Miniatures, for piano (W 202): A Ballad Told at Candle-light
  28. Miniatures, for piano (W 202): A Little Dancer from Spain
  29. Little Waltzes (3), for piano, Op. 58 (W 178): Allegro poco scherzando
  30. Little Waltzes (3), for piano, Op. 58 (W 178): Andante languido
  31. Little Waltzes (3), for piano, Op. 58 (W 178): Allegretto gracioso
Music CD 2
  1. Pastoral Suite for piano (W 239): Courante
  2. Pastoral Suite for piano (W 239): Pastorale
  3. Pastoral Suite for piano (W 239): Rigaudon
  4. Pastoral Suite for piano (W 239): Rondo
  5. Pastoral Suite for piano (W 239): Passacaglia
  6. Indian Suite, for piano (W 159): The Snake Charmer
  7. Indian Suite, for piano (W 159): Juggernaut
  8. Indian Suite, for piano (W 159): Indian Serenade
  9. Indian Suite, for piano (W 159): Dancing Girls
  10. Handelian Rhapsody, for piano (ed. Percy Grainger), Op. 17 (W 134)
  11. Water Wagtail, for piano, Op. 71/3 (W 414)
  12. Frivolous Pieces (3) for piano (W 124): No. 3. Valse Scherzando
  13. Caprice Chinois, for piano (W 56)
  14. Pastorals (3) for piano, (W 242): No. 3. Pensoso
  15. Karma, ballet: Souvenir de Vienne
  16. Lotus Land for piano, Op. 47/1 (W 183)
  17. Danse Negre, for piano, Op. 58/5 (W 89)
  18. Rainbow Trout, for piano (W 283)

Music reviews of Cyril Scott: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 1

Music Review: Scott at his most delectable
Rating: 4 Stars

Dutton are doing marvels for the dissemination of the music of Cyril Scott. Three CDs of chamber music have appeared, and we are now in the middle of a complete recording by the Canadian pianist Leslie De'Ath of the piano music, which extends to 215 pieces, mostly short, but a few of substantial length. Most of them were written for amateurs (between 1900 and 1925) and are unpretentious; Scott came to think in later life that the reputation they won him as a composer of pleasing trifles had made it harder for his more ambitious works to be taken seriously. We now, in 2008, have recent recordings of many of these major works, and we must judge Scott by his First Piano Concerto or Second String Quartet rather than by `Lotus Land' or `Danse Negre'. Yet the short pieces still deserve a hearing. They were not only hugely popular throughout Europe and North America in the early decades of the last century, but introduced many musicians, both professionals and amateurs, to the new non-functional harmony of Debussy and Ravel. But above all, they remain delightful listening, expressive as they are of Scott's artistic personality - exotic, buoyant, sensuous on the surface, yet with a philosophic detachment within.
A hugely welcome bonus in this generous issue (you get two CDs for the price of one) is the inclusion of 20 minutes of Scott's own recording of some his shorter pieces, made in the 1930s. His touch is infinitely varied, and there are miracles of subtle peddling; above all, his constant but never exaggerated rubato gives buoyancy to every page. He had the gift of making the slightest of his pieces sound electrifying. People who heard Scott play said that no one could approach him in his interpretation of his own works.
How do the performances of Leslie De'Ath fare in comparison? The answer is, most of the time, surprisingly well. I cannot imagine a more vital or fresh performance of `Vistas' or of the Pastoral Suite (two of the best of Scott's sets of pieces). Particularly impressive is De'Ath's performance of the one major work in this set, the substantial Deuxieme Suite of 1910, which represents (together with the First Piano Concerto and the Poems for piano) the peak of Scott's early maturity. Written for virtuosi, the writing is bolder and more varied than in the vast majority of Scott's shorter pieces, and the pace of harmonic change is better judged than in the amazing but rather too hectic First Sonata, written a year or two previously.
With the recordings of Scott's major orchestral works by Chandos and of the chamber music by Dutton there is no danger nowadays of Scott's shorter pieces queering the pitch for his major works. They still have much pleasure to give, and this issue could not be bettered as an introduction to them.

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