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Special offer. Ronald Stevenson Piano Music, Volume Three

Christopher Guild (piano)

Ronald Stevenson Piano Music, Volume Three
Affecting poetry and blood-stirring fire in confluence with folk voices and an over-arching simplicity.

Special offer. Ronald Stevenson Piano Music, Volume Three

Christopher Guild (piano)

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Affecting poetry and blood-stirring fire in confluence with folk voices and an over-arching simplicity.

About

The Scottish composer Ronald Stevenson (1928–2015) was a virtuoso concert pianist in the tradition of Beethoven, Liszt and Rachmaninov but, like his friend Percy Grainger, he was also fascinated by the folk musics of the world. This third album of his piano music juxtaposes his arrangements of Celtic – Breton, Cornish, Irish, Manx, Scots and Welsh – folk-songs and -dances with his Chinese and Ghanaian Folk-Song Suites and his resourceful transcription of Grainger’s visionary Hill Song No. 1 for wind band, here realised as an expansive tone-poem for the piano. This is the third instalment of Christopher Guild’s exploration of Ronald Stevenson’s music –a crusade he will soon be extending to other Scottish composers.

Contents and tracklist

No. 1, Harp of Gold
Track length1:13
No. 2, The Ash Grove
Track length1:03
No. 3, Hal-an-tow
Track length1:04
No. 4, A Fairy's Love Song
Track length1:41
No. 5, The Sheep Under the Snow
Track length1:45
No. 6, Savourneen Deelish
Track length1:25
No. 7, The Cockle-gatherer
Track length1:02
No. 8, Tune from County Derry
Track length1:31
No. 9, Eriskay Love-lilt
Track length2:31
No. 10, Ben Dorain
Track length1:50
No. 11, La Basse-Breton
Track length1:07
No. 12, The Old Woman's Reel
Track length0:48
No. 13, L'Angelus Breton
Track length1:07
No. 14, The Christ Child's Lullaby
Track length1:09
I. The Washer-woman and the Flower-girl
Track length2:06
II. A Song for New Year's Day
Track length2:27
III. The War-widow's Lament
Track length4:28
IV. Beautiful Fresh Flower
Track length1:35
V. Song of the Crab-fisher
Track length2:08
I. Song of Valour
Track length2:03
II. Consolation
Track length2:21
III. Leopard Dance
Track length1:40

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April 2019

Affecting poetry and blood-stirring fire in confluence with folk voices and an over-arching simplicity.
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