Composer: Ronald Stevenson, Percy Grainger
Performer: Christopher Guild
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Release: 2019
Size: 1.13 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Stevenson: African Twi-Tune: The Bantu and Akrikaaner National Hymns Combined
02. Grainger: Hill-Song No. 1
Stevenson: Sounding Strings
03. No. 1, Harp of Gold
04. No. 2, The Ash Grove
05. No. 3, Hal-an-tow
06. No. 4, A Fairy’s Love Song
07. No. 5, The Sheep Under the Snow
08. No. 6, Savourneen Deelish
09. No. 7, The Cockle-gatherer
10. No. 8, Tune from County Derry
11. No. 9, Eriskay Love-lilt
12. No. 10, Ben Dorain
13. No. 11, La Basse-Breton
14. No. 12, The Old Woman’s Reel
15. No. 13, L’Angelus Breton
16. No. 14, The Christ Child’s Lullaby
Stevenson: Chinese Folk-song Suite
17. I. The Washer-woman and the Flower-girl
18. II. A Song for New Year’s Day
19. III. The War-widow’s Lament
20. IV. Beautiful Fresh Flower
21. V. Song of the Crab-fisher
Stevenson: Ghanaian Folk-song Suite
22. I. Song of Valour
23. II. Consolation
24. III. Leopard Dance
25. trad.: Bonny at Morn
26. trad.: The High Road to Linton
27. Stevenson: Barra Flyting Toccata
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.