SCOTT Piano Concerto, Op 10. Cello Concerto, Op 19
Yates, Wallfisch and Donohoe champion concertante Scott
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Composer or Director: Cyril (Meir) Scott
Genre:
Orchestral
Label: Dutton Epoch
Magazine Review Date: 09/2013
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 69
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: CDLX7302
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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Overture to Pelleas and Melisanda |
Cyril (Meir) Scott, Composer
BBC Concert Orchestra Cyril (Meir) Scott, Composer Martin Yates |
Concerto for Piano in D (unfinished) |
Cyril (Meir) Scott, Composer
BBC Concert Orchestra Cyril (Meir) Scott, Composer Martin Yates, Conductor Peter Donohoe, Piano |
Concerto for Cello and Orchestra |
Cyril (Meir) Scott, Composer
BBC Concert Orchestra Cyril (Meir) Scott, Composer Martin Yates, Conductor Raphael Wallfisch, Cello |
Author: Peter Dickinson
British composers flocked to Germany in the later 19th century to inject some technique into the renaissance of British music. Scott’s early Piano Concerto (1900) has a Wagnerian continuity in its harmony and some chromatic melodic lines. Scott became a predominantly harmonic composer, like Scriabin, and even at this stage there’s a sonorous sensuality that would remain in later works. And Scott wasn’t just a composer – see a new study, The Aesthetic Life of Cyril Scott by Sarah Collins (Boydell).
It’s hard to see why Scott disowned the Piano Concerto, which has had to wait over a century to be heard. He probably felt that he had suffered from an overdose of Wagner. However, there’s everything that a popular Romantic concerto needs, replete with gestures that Hollywood would exploit. Donohoe’s stunning performance makes the best possible case for this to become a repertoire piece. The Cello Concerto (1902) might almost have been written by Wagner: Raphael Wallfisch revels in its expansive melodic style and delivers another eloquent performance. Excellent recordings too.
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