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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 music -- throughout it is charming, engaging, and highly revelatory of Scott's place in the scheme of early twentieth century music. Often hidden behind "frivolous" titles are pieces that paradoxically contradict, transcend, and yet belong to the expected piano milieu of the first decade of the twentieth century -- in a way it depends if you use MacDowell or Debussy as the yardstick by which you measure such things. Debussy obviously had a strong impact on Scott's musical thinking -- no surprise for someone who knows even a little of his music -- but by 1904's Chinese Serenade Scott had already fully assimilated Debussy's sound and was pushing into another direction. What Scott would have had in common with MacDowell was his German conservatory training and interest in pictorialism, which, like MacDowell's, went beyond the merely quaint into an area of music making that is analogous to great sketch art or watercolor painting.
Scott's use of harmony is unique and can be deceptively elliptical in effect; check out the odd modal substitutions and subtle use of secundal chords in Twilight Bells. While some of Scott's pieces here hearken back to period parlour piano music, most don't -- they demonstrate a master tinkerer at work, a composer who took his interest in the occult and created an arcane, eldritch musical language to go along with it. Some titles do hint at this -- Summerland is a place in occult lore where one goes to sum up one's life before moving onto the next. What could have Scott been thinking with a title like Danse élégiaque; "a dance in the form of an elegy, namely a funeral song"? Even in pieces where Scott's harmonic language is more conservative, he never dissolves into purely mawkish sentimentalism, and the later compositions on the second disc demonstrate a deepening mastery of the pictorial, for example in his Impressions from the Jungle Book (1912). It's not like Scott got rich writing such things -- most were published as sheet music and disappeared nearly as quickly as published. Many of these pieces resemble jazz improvisations in their harmonic choices and musical gestures; they're just not as syncopated and don't "swing." However, sometimes they almost do, as in the Guttersnipes' Dance or the Dance of the Elephants from the Jungle Book set.
Most of these things are new to recordings, and De'Ath performs them all with a sense of urgency in livelier selections and deep sensitivity in the slower ones. It is hard to imagine anyone who loves the piano not liking Cyril Scott: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 4 -- Piano Works 1898-1963 as it has so much to offer in terms of pianistic color, fresh ideas, and imagination; most should find it highly, highly enjoyable.
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Cyril Scott, Composer - Leslie De'Ath, MainArtist
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Cyril Scott, Composer - Leslie De'Ath, MainArtist
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Cyril Scott, Composer - Leslie De'Ath, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Dutton Epoch (P) 2007 Dutton Epoch
Cyril Scott, Composer - Leslie De'Ath, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Dutton Epoch (P) 2007 Dutton Epoch
Cyril Scott, Composer - Leslie De'Ath, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Dutton Epoch (P) 2007 Dutton Epoch
Cyril Scott, Composer - Leslie De'Ath, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Dutton Epoch (P) 2007 Dutton Epoch
Cyril Scott, Composer - Leslie De'Ath, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Dutton Epoch (P) 2007 Dutton Epoch
Cyril Scott, Composer - Leslie De'Ath, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Dutton Epoch (P) 2007 Dutton Epoch
Cyril Scott, Composer - Leslie De'Ath, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Dutton Epoch (P) 2007 Dutton Epoch
Cyril Scott, Composer - Leslie De'Ath, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Dutton Epoch (P) 2007 Dutton Epoch
Cyril Scott, Composer - Leslie De'Ath, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Dutton Epoch (P) 2007 Dutton Epoch
Cyril Scott, Composer - Leslie De'Ath, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Dutton Epoch (P) 2007 Dutton Epoch
Cyril Scott, Composer - Leslie De'Ath, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Dutton Epoch (P) 2007 Dutton Epoch
Cyril Scott, Composer - Leslie De'Ath, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Dutton Epoch (P) 2007 Dutton Epoch
Cyril Scott, Composer - Leslie De'Ath, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Dutton Epoch (P) 2007 Dutton Epoch
Cyril Scott, Composer - Leslie De'Ath, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Dutton Epoch (P) 2007 Dutton Epoch
Cyril Scott, Composer - Leslie De'Ath, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Dutton Epoch (P) 2007 Dutton Epoch
Cyril Scott, Composer - Leslie De'Ath, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Dutton Epoch (P) 2007 Dutton Epoch
Cyril Scott, Composer - Leslie De'Ath, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Dutton Epoch (P) 2007 Dutton Epoch
Cyril Scott, Composer - Leslie De'Ath, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Dutton Epoch (P) 2007 Dutton Epoch
Cyril Scott, Composer - Leslie De'Ath, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Dutton Epoch (P) 2007 Dutton Epoch
Cyril Scott, Composer - Leslie De'Ath, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Dutton Epoch (P) 2007 Dutton Epoch
Cyril Scott, Composer - Leslie De'Ath, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Dutton Epoch (P) 2007 Dutton Epoch
Cyril Scott, Composer - Leslie De'Ath, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Dutton Epoch (P) 2007 Dutton Epoch
Cyril Scott, Composer - Leslie De'Ath, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Dutton Epoch (P) 2007 Dutton Epoch
Cyril Scott, Composer - Leslie De'Ath, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Dutton Epoch (P) 2007 Dutton Epoch
Cyril Scott, Composer - Leslie De'Ath, MainArtist
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DISQUE 2
Cyril Scott, Composer - Leslie De'Ath, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Dutton Epoch (P) 2007 Dutton Epoch
Cyril Scott, Composer - Leslie De'Ath, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Dutton Epoch (P) 2007 Dutton Epoch
Cyril Scott, Composer - Leslie De'Ath, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Dutton Epoch (P) 2007 Dutton Epoch
Cyril Scott, Composer - Leslie De'Ath, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Dutton Epoch (P) 2007 Dutton Epoch
Cyril Scott, Composer - Leslie De'Ath, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Dutton Epoch (P) 2007 Dutton Epoch
Cyril Scott, Composer - Leslie De'Ath, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Dutton Epoch (P) 2007 Dutton Epoch
Cyril Scott, Composer - Leslie De'Ath, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Dutton Epoch (P) 2007 Dutton Epoch
Cyril Scott, Composer - Leslie De'Ath, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Dutton Epoch (P) 2007 Dutton Epoch
Cyril Scott, Composer - Leslie De'Ath, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Dutton Epoch (P) 2007 Dutton Epoch
Cyril Scott, Composer - Leslie De'Ath, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Dutton Epoch (P) 2007 Dutton Epoch
Cyril Scott, Composer - Leslie De'Ath, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Dutton Epoch (P) 2007 Dutton Epoch
Cyril Scott, Composer - Leslie De'Ath, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Dutton Epoch (P) 2007 Dutton Epoch
Cyril Scott, Composer - Leslie De'Ath, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Dutton Epoch (P) 2007 Dutton Epoch
Cyril Scott, Composer - Leslie De'Ath, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Dutton Epoch (P) 2007 Dutton Epoch
Cyril Scott, Composer - Leslie De'Ath, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Dutton Epoch (P) 2007 Dutton Epoch
Cyril Scott, Composer - Leslie De'Ath, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Dutton Epoch (P) 2007 Dutton Epoch
Cyril Scott, Composer - Leslie De'Ath, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Dutton Epoch (P) 2007 Dutton Epoch
Cyril Scott, Composer - Leslie De'Ath, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Dutton Epoch (P) 2007 Dutton Epoch
Cyril Scott, Composer - Leslie De'Ath, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Dutton Epoch (P) 2007 Dutton Epoch
Cyril Scott, Composer - Leslie De'Ath, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Dutton Epoch (P) 2007 Dutton Epoch
Cyril Scott, Composer - Leslie De'Ath, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Dutton Epoch (P) 2007 Dutton Epoch
Cyril Scott, Composer - Leslie De'Ath, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Dutton Epoch (P) 2007 Dutton Epoch
Cyril Scott, Composer - Leslie De'Ath, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Dutton Epoch (P) 2007 Dutton Epoch
Chronique
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 music -- throughout it is charming, engaging, and highly revelatory of Scott's place in the scheme of early twentieth century music. Often hidden behind "frivolous" titles are pieces that paradoxically contradict, transcend, and yet belong to the expected piano milieu of the first decade of the twentieth century -- in a way it depends if you use MacDowell or Debussy as the yardstick by which you measure such things. Debussy obviously had a strong impact on Scott's musical thinking -- no surprise for someone who knows even a little of his music -- but by 1904's Chinese Serenade Scott had already fully assimilated Debussy's sound and was pushing into another direction. What Scott would have had in common with MacDowell was his German conservatory training and interest in pictorialism, which, like MacDowell's, went beyond the merely quaint into an area of music making that is analogous to great sketch art or watercolor painting.
Scott's use of harmony is unique and can be deceptively elliptical in effect; check out the odd modal substitutions and subtle use of secundal chords in Twilight Bells. While some of Scott's pieces here hearken back to period parlour piano music, most don't -- they demonstrate a master tinkerer at work, a composer who took his interest in the occult and created an arcane, eldritch musical language to go along with it. Some titles do hint at this -- Summerland is a place in occult lore where one goes to sum up one's life before moving onto the next. What could have Scott been thinking with a title like Danse élégiaque; "a dance in the form of an elegy, namely a funeral song"? Even in pieces where Scott's harmonic language is more conservative, he never dissolves into purely mawkish sentimentalism, and the later compositions on the second disc demonstrate a deepening mastery of the pictorial, for example in his Impressions from the Jungle Book (1912). It's not like Scott got rich writing such things -- most were published as sheet music and disappeared nearly as quickly as published. Many of these pieces resemble jazz improvisations in their harmonic choices and musical gestures; they're just not as syncopated and don't "swing." However, sometimes they almost do, as in the Guttersnipes' Dance or the Dance of the Elephants from the Jungle Book set.
Most of these things are new to recordings, and De'Ath performs them all with a sense of urgency in livelier selections and deep sensitivity in the slower ones. It is hard to imagine anyone who loves the piano not liking Cyril Scott: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 4 -- Piano Works 1898-1963 as it has so much to offer in terms of pianistic color, fresh ideas, and imagination; most should find it highly, highly enjoyable.
© TiVo
À propos
- 2 disque(s) - 54 piste(s)
- Durée totale : 02:28:34
- Artistes principaux : Leslie De'Ath
- Compositeur : Cyril Scott
- Label : Dutton Epoch
- Genre : Classique
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