If you like Debussy, you'll adore this beautifully recorded and enchantingly phrased recital of 47 miniatures, rounded out by eight tracks recorded by Cyril Scott himself in the 1920s.

This admirable recording inaugurates Cyril Scott's complete solo piano music on disc. Scott was a pianist-composer – and he was a capable player, as the bonus historic performances show.
The instrument's romantic associations, inherited from Chopin, Scriabin and Debussy, permeate Scott's earlier works. And he was fascinated by harmony, which he employed sensuously to define his idiom: Grainger aptly called him a 'perpendicular' composer.
Like Bridge and Ireland, Scott wrote miniatures for the amateur market but he also made history with the experimental rhythmic and harmonic features of his Piano Sonata No 1 in 1908 and the expansive Suite No 2, dedicated to Debussy, who much admired him. The five movements of this half-hour Suite range from a two-minute Caprice to a substantial theme and variations with a concluding 10-minute Introduction and Fugue.
Some of this is rhapsodic and the charm of the salon miniatures, at which De'Ath excels, is not so easily extended. But Scott has his own kind of rhetoric, as the oddly titled Handelian Rhapsody, dedicated to Grainger, also shows.
Absolutely fascinating, in clean transfers, are the eight pieces Scott recorded between 1928 and 1930. He plays Water Wagtail delicately, a perfect counterpart to the airy skipping motions of these birds. But the perennial favourite LotusLand is played eccentrically, the rapid notes inexplicably rushed to cut almost half a beat at times.
There are informative notes from De'Ath but little about the pieces Scott plays. The piano sound is clean but slightly close.