Composer: Ronald Stevenson
Performer: Christopher Guild
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Release: 2020
Size: 1.12 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Manru Suite (After Paderewski)
01. I. Introduction & Gipsy March
02. II. Gipsy Song
03. III. Lullaby
04. IV. Cracovienne
05. Song Without Words
9 Haiku
06. No. 1, Dedication
07. No. 2, The Fly
08. No. 3, Gone Away
09. No. 4, Nocturne
10. No. 5, Master and Pupil
11. No. 6, Spring
12. Interlude. The Blossoming Cherry [Aubade]
13. No. 7, Curfew
14. No. 8, Hiroshima
15. No. 9, Epilogue
16. Romance (After Charpentier’s ‘Louise’)
L’art nouveau du chant appliqué, Vol. 1
17. No. 1, Elëanore (After Coleridge-Taylor)
18. No. 2, So We’ll Go No More A-Roving (After Maud Valérie White)
19. No. 3, Plus blanche que la plus blanche hermine (After Meyerbeer)
20. No. 4, In the Silent Night (After Rachmaninoff)
21. No. 5, Go Not, Happy Day! (After Bridge)
L’art nouveau du chant appliqué, Vol. 2
22. No. 1, Fly Home Little Heart (After Novello)
23. No. 2, We’ll Gather Lilacs (After Novello)
24. No. 3, Demand et réponse (After Coleridge-Taylor)
25. No. 4, Will You Remember (After Romberg)
L’art nouveau du chant appliqué, Vol. 3
26. No. 1, Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair (After Foster)
27. No. 2, Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming (After Foster)
27. No. 3, Beautiful Dreamer (After Foster)
This fourth volume in Christopher Guild’s ongoing survey of the piano music of the pianist-composer Ronald Stevenson (1928–2015) – a major figure in the cultural life of twentieth-century Scotland – presents works inspired by the human voice, where Stevenson was concerned above all to make the piano sing, to allow it to express human feeling as naturally as possible. That concern can be heard both in his own pieces and his many transcriptions of music by other composers, which balance sophisticated craftsmanship and a refreshing emotional directness.