Scott: Piano Concerto/ Symphony No. 4/Early One Morning Piano Orchestral & Concertos Chandos

Scott: Piano Concerto/ Symphony No. 4/Early One Morning

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CHAN 10376

Scott: Piano Concerto/ Symphony No. 4/Early One Morning

Running Time: 72:55

CD UPC: 0095115137628

Release Date: April 2006
Originally recorded in 2005

Composer (1879-1970)
Cyril Scott

Solo Piano piano
Howard Shelley

Orchestra
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor
Martyn Brabbins

Venue
Studio 7, New Broadcasting House, Manchester

Producer
Brian Pidgeon

Producer
Mike George

Engineer
Stephen Rinker

Engineer (Assistant)
Tom Parnell

Genre:
Piano
Orchestral & Concertos

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CYRIL SCOTT

(1879-1970)

Piano Concerto [No. 1] (1913-14)*

30:42

Allegro maestoso - Animato - Molto tranquillo -

12:46

Adagio - Sostenuto - Animato -

7:55

III

Allegro poco moderato - Poco sostenuto - Estatico -

10:00

premiere recording

Symphony No. 4 (1951-52)

28:21

Adagio - Vigoroso - Grazioso - Andante poco rubato -

9:31

Molto tranquillo

7:03

III

Scherzo. Allegro - Allegro non troppo -

3:53

Rondo retrospettivo. Adagio - Energico -

7:53

Early One Morning (1930-31, revised 1962)*

13:54

Poem for Piano and Orchestra

Andantino - Quasi allegro - Tempo tranquillo -

73:05

Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor: Martyn Brabbins

8 & 9 September 2005

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Reviews

Howard Shelley is, as usual, an impeccable soloist… this release represents a remarkable discovery in 20th-century British music: excellent recording, too.

Gramophone

Howard Shelley and the BBC Philharmonic span the idiom with panache and sensibility, identifying a composer whose credentials as an individualist in English music are greatly enhanced be this recording.

Telegraph

Scott’s scoring is extravagant but lucid, his harmony sensuous and involving, and his structures are free but controlled… This is a CD of terrific music, its demands comprehensively met by the musicians, and the recording

International Record Review

This second release in Chandos’ Cyril Scott series is entirely up to the technical standards of the first… beautifully recorded and equally eloquent performances by Howard Shelley… Brabbins directs sympathetic and characterful performances, skilfully delineating the strands in Scott’s orchestral web. Well worth any British music-lover’s time.

BBC Music Magazine

The performances are immaculate and the recording admirably clear and tangible, reflecting the music itself: an aural feast.

International Record Review

From what I remember of John Ogdon’s recording, Shelley’s interpretation flows better, but the core of the music, like that of Delius, is the present sensual moment.

Gramophone

Shelley makes rich adventures of Scott’s 1913 rhapsodic Piano Concert. High tension in a burning string unison precedes his majestic first entry. An animato section tempts from him a spirited skip towards a reflective strolling andante. The haunting chord that opens both the first and last movements of the Fourth Symphony lingers long enough to insinuate itself. One senses Brabbins revelling in the gamut – the mesmerising slow movement, the clownish scherzo. Shelley reappears in Early One Morning, a poetic concertino that picks over the folk song with almost psychoanalytical pedantry.

The Times

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