Howard Shelley - Scott: Piano Concerto, Symphony No. 4 & Early One Morning (2006/2022) [Official Digital Download 24/48]

Cyril Scott's music inhabits a sound-world that is very much its own, despite the inevitable comparisons to composers such as Scriabin, Sorabji, and even the French impressionists. This new recording of the First Piano Concerto – the first one in over 30 years – takes a fresher, lighter approach that is absolutely thrilling in the outer movements.

"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)

"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)

Tracklist:
1. Piano Concerto No. 1: I. Allegro maestoso (12:46)
2. Piano Concerto No. 1: II. Adagio (07:54)
3. Piano Concerto No. 1: III. Allegro poco moderato (10:05)
4. Symphony No. 4: I. Adagio (09:31)
5. Symphony No. 4: II. Molto tranquillo (07:03)
6. Symphony No. 4: III. Scherzo. Allegro (03:53)
7. Symphony No. 4: IV. Rondo retrospettivo. Adagio (07:57)
8. Early One Morning (Revised 1962) (13:52)


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