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2021-06-25 10:31:30
Scottish piano music: Christopher Guild continues his explorations with disc devoted to Francis George Scott and to Ronald Stevenson's transcriptions
The history of music is never straightforward and that of 20th century music is often more complex and varied than simply those composers regarded as part of the accepted canon. A case in point might be 20th century Scottish music, where there have been several generations of composers who operated at something of a tangent to the main stream. Whilst literary scholars might be familiar with the 20th century Scottish Renaissance and the central figure of the poet, Hugh McDiarmid, the musical parallels are often less well understood. One of McDiarmid's teachers and a long-time collaborator was the composer Francis George Scott (1880-1958), known for his output of some 300 songs. But Scott also wrote piano music and the recent advent of Christopher Guild's recital on Toccata Classics, Francis George Scott: Complete Piano Music, is a valuable new insight into a composer whose output remains under-performed and under-appreciated. Another […]
2020-08-03 02:05:50
The piano music of Jean Roger-Ducasse (1873-1954) is cut from the same subtle and refined cloth as that of his teacher and mentor Fauré, particularly in the latter’s elusive late works. Its difficulties lie not so much with virtuosic challenges as they do with issues of numerous expressive directives and clarifying contrapuntal movement. It must […]
2020-02-21 00:00:00
Tadaaki Otaka: Debussy - Orchestral Works
Claude Debussy:01. - 02 (orch, Jean Roger-Ducasse) Music for King Lear [4'38]03. - 08. (orch. Andre Caplet) Children's Corner [17'50]09. Premiere rapsodie for clarinet and orchestra* [8'51]10. - 15. (orch. Ernest Ansermet) Six epigraphes antiques [16'14]16. -18. La mer [24'34]Robert Plane*- clarinet; BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Tadaaki OtakaBBC Music Magazine BBCMM209 (recorded February 2001; CD issued September 2001)(CD-rip; flacs, booklet, inlay & cover scans)Recording venue: Brangwyn Hall, SwanseaRecording engineer: Mike 'Mr Bear' Clements; Producer: Tim ThorneThis is an interesting mix of original orchestrations by Debussy with orchestrations by other musicians of some of his solo piano works - some quite rarely recorded. Unusually for BBC Music Magazine discs, this one was not made by the BBC's own technicians but by the well-known independent recording engineer, Mike Clements. Also, unlike many of these issues, there is a very useful booklet note by Roger Nichols.At the time of recording, […]
2019-03-22 16:40:24
The French 20th century saxophone: Tableaux de Provence from Dominic Childs & Simon Callaghan
Debussy, Decruck, Maurice, Borne Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 22 March 2019 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) A recital which highlights the French love affair with the saxophone in the 20th centuryThe French composers of the late 19th and 20th centuries seem to have had an affinity with the saxophone. On this new disc from saxophonist Dominic Childs and pianist Simon Callaghan on Resonus Classics we have works by Debussy, Fernande Decruck, Paule Maurice and Francois Borne. Quite how much of Debussy's Rhapsodie for saxophone and piano is by Debussy is anyone's guess. It was commissioned by the redoubtable Elise Hall, an American who took to the saxophone and commissioned composers accordingly. Debussy worked on his Rhapsodie for eight years and never really finished it, when he died he apparently left an orchestral sketch, and it was the composer Jean Roger-Ducasse who tidied things up. The version […]
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