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Title: Piano Music 5
Artist: Christopher Guild
Label: Toccata
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 5060113446060
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2021-05-07
Number of Discs: 1
The personal generosity that made the Scottish composer Ronald Stevenson (1928-2015) such a warm and vibrant character extended also to his writing-desk: around a quarter of his enormous output is given over to transcriptions, mostly for piano, of music by other composers. Here he pays homage to three earlier colleagues whose music he particularly esteemed: Purcell, Delius and van Dieren. Stevenson described his version of Van Dieren's String Quartet No. 5 (1931) as 'transcribed as a piano sonata (which B. v. D. never composed)' - and thus it became the piano sonata which Stevenson himself never composed. The album ends with Stevenson's brief but achingly beautiful harmonisation of Purcell's The Queen's Dolour - as exquisite an example of the transcriber's art as anyone could wish.
Tracks:
1.1 Toccata
1.2 Hornpipe
1.3 Three Grounds~Ground in C minor
1.4 Three Grounds~Ground in E flat minor
1.5 Three Grounds~Ground in D minor
1.6 Young Pianist's Delius~No. 1. Dance
1.7 Young Pianist's Delius~No. 2. Tune from 'Brigg Fair'
1.8 Young Pianist's Delius~No. 3. La Calinda
1.9 Young Pianist's Delius~No. 4. Serenade
1.10 Young Pianist's Delius~No. 5. The Cuckoo
1.11 Young Pianist's Delius~No. 6. Late Swallows
1.12 Young Pianist's Delius~No. 7. Intermezzo
1.13 Young Pianist's Delius~No. 8. Tune from String Quartet
1.14 Young Pianist's Delius~No. 9. Tune from Violin Sonata No. 2
1.15 Young Pianist's Delius~No. 10. Themes from 'Song of the High Hills'
1.16 Little Jazz Variations on Purcell's 'New Scotch Tune'
1.17 String Quartet No. 5~I. Con moto ben sostenuto
1.18 String Quartet No. 5~II. Molto tranquillo
1.19 String Quartet No. 5~III. Impetuosamente
1.20 String Quartet No. 5~IV. Con spirito
1.21 String Quartet No. 5~V. Adagio cantando
1.22 String Quartet No. 5~VI. Finale: Allegro con grazia
1.23 Weep You No More, Sad Fountains
1.24 Spring Song of the Birds
1.25 Queen's Dolour - A Farewell
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Artist: Christopher Guild
Label: Toccata
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 5060113446060
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2021-05-07
Number of Discs: 1
The personal generosity that made the Scottish composer Ronald Stevenson (1928-2015) such a warm and vibrant character extended also to his writing-desk: around a quarter of his enormous output is given over to transcriptions, mostly for piano, of music by other composers. Here he pays homage to three earlier colleagues whose music he particularly esteemed: Purcell, Delius and van Dieren. Stevenson described his version of Van Dieren's String Quartet No. 5 (1931) as 'transcribed as a piano sonata (which B. v. D. never composed)' - and thus it became the piano sonata which Stevenson himself never composed. The album ends with Stevenson's brief but achingly beautiful harmonisation of Purcell's The Queen's Dolour - as exquisite an example of the transcriber's art as anyone could wish.
Tracks:
1.1 Toccata
1.2 Hornpipe
1.3 Three Grounds~Ground in C minor
1.4 Three Grounds~Ground in E flat minor
1.5 Three Grounds~Ground in D minor
1.6 Young Pianist's Delius~No. 1. Dance
1.7 Young Pianist's Delius~No. 2. Tune from 'Brigg Fair'
1.8 Young Pianist's Delius~No. 3. La Calinda
1.9 Young Pianist's Delius~No. 4. Serenade
1.10 Young Pianist's Delius~No. 5. The Cuckoo
1.11 Young Pianist's Delius~No. 6. Late Swallows
1.12 Young Pianist's Delius~No. 7. Intermezzo
1.13 Young Pianist's Delius~No. 8. Tune from String Quartet
1.14 Young Pianist's Delius~No. 9. Tune from Violin Sonata No. 2
1.15 Young Pianist's Delius~No. 10. Themes from 'Song of the High Hills'
1.16 Little Jazz Variations on Purcell's 'New Scotch Tune'
1.17 String Quartet No. 5~I. Con moto ben sostenuto
1.18 String Quartet No. 5~II. Molto tranquillo
1.19 String Quartet No. 5~III. Impetuosamente
1.20 String Quartet No. 5~IV. Con spirito
1.21 String Quartet No. 5~V. Adagio cantando
1.22 String Quartet No. 5~VI. Finale: Allegro con grazia
1.23 Weep You No More, Sad Fountains
1.24 Spring Song of the Birds
1.25 Queen's Dolour - A Farewell
Audio Sample:
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