Composer: Derek B. Scott
Performer: Tippett Quartet, James Atkinson, Lynn Arnold
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata Classics
Catalogue: TOCC0619
Release: 2021
Size: 1.37 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Former Beauties, Op. 0
01. No. 1, She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways
02. No. 2, A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General
03. No. 3, Highland Mary
04. No. 4, The Album
05. No. 5, Former Beauties
3 Shakespeare Sonnets, Op. 5
06. No. 1, Sonnet 27
07. No. 2, Sonnet 49
08. No. 3, Sonnet 113
5 Songs from the Rose, Op. 14
09. No. 1, The Lake Isle of Innisfree
10. No. 2, The Sorrow of Love
11. No. 3, Who Goes with Fergus?
12. No. 4, A Cradle Song
13. No. 5, The Ballad of Father Gilligan
3 Love Songs, Op. 19 (Version for Voice & String Quartet)
14. No. 1, Your Many Gifts to Me
15. No. 2, A Hidden Meaning
16. No. 3, As I Wait for Friday
4 Songs from “The Wind Among the Reeds”, Op. 22
17. No. 1 The Song of Wandering Aengus
18. No. 2, Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
19. No. 3, The Cap and Bells
20. No. 4, The Fiddler of Dooney
Past & Present, Op. 33
21. No. 1, To Lizbie Browne
22. No. 2, The Darkling Thrush
23. No. 3, The Tenant-for-Life
24. No. 4, The Levelled Churchyard
25. No. 5, The Ruined Maid
26. No. 6, To Life
Derek Scott, born in Birmingham in 1950, has an international reputation as a leading historian of the British music hall and other forms of light entertainment. But he is an outstanding composer in his own right, his music treading a fine line between a very English whimsy and a profoundly felt and natural response to his subject matter. These six song-cycles – with influences ranging from Vaughan Williams to The Beatles – reveal a master craftsman and natural tunesmith, who manages to unite good humour, unerring technique and deep feeling in music of immediate appeal, setting texts by poets who include Burns, Hardy, Shakespeare, Swift, Wordsworth, Yeats and the composer himself.