The composer plays his own composition "Lotus Land".. + Informações

Neptune by Cyril Scott. Conducted by Martyn Brabbins with the BBC Philhamonic. I. Andante - Molto Maestoso - 00:00 II. Con Moto - Largo - 5:36 III. Tempo Di Valse - Molto Cantbile - Wistfully- 7:18 IV. Allegro Agitato - 10:59 V. Adagio Molto - Tristamente - 20:28 The score of Neptune is a revised version of Scott's symphonic poem Disaster at Sea, a programmatic account of the sinking of the Titanic. The work evokes a cold calm sea, becoming more animated as the ship sails on its way. Later the trombones clearly evoke a foghorn and a tremendous climax follows. A series of storm episodes ensue before the whole orchestra takes up a lament for loss at sea.. + Informações

Symphony No. 3 by Cyril Scott. Conducted by Martyn Brabbins with the BBC Philharmonic and Huddersfield Choral Society. I. Melpomene - Music of Epic Poetry and Tragedy - 00:00 II. Thalia - Music of Comedy and Merry Verse - 14:32 III. Erato - Music of Love and Poetry - 20:13 IV. Terpsichore - Music of Dance and Song- 26:57 Symphony No. 3 The Muses requires an enormous orchestra, including four flutes, a large percussion section with wind machine and two harps, the distinctive sound of orchestral piano, and in the last movement a vocalising choir. The symphony, which celebrates four of the nine muses (daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne and the spirits of poetry, the arts and astronomy), is the crowning work of Scott's compositional career up to the outbreak of the Second World War.. + Informações

Symphony No. 1 by Cyril Scott. Conducted by Martyn Brabbins with the BBC Philharmonic. I. Allegro Frivolo - 00:00 II. Andante Con Moto - 6:43 III. Allegretto - 13:07 IV. Finale - Themes and Variations - 18:09 IV. Finale - Fuga - 26:01 "Cyril Scott was amongst the many young British musicians who studied music in Germany, where he acquired German artistic ideas of the time. Whilst in Germany he met and became a champion of the German poet Stefan George and this friendship proved immeasurably influential in his compositional writing, especially his First Symphony. Scott dedicated the work to George citing '...whose art I am indebted for many of my best and most religious ideas.' It is thanks to Scott's friendship with Percy Grainger that the score is still in existence. Grainger was obsessed with archiving the musical time through which they lived and was thus constantly asking Scott for his manuscripts for his museum in Melbourne. It is only because of this that several of Scott's scores have survived, including this First Symphony which experiments with the modern, rhapsodic style and various orchestral colours that he was to develop in his subsequent works. Peter Dickinson noted on a previous volume that, 'Scott's command of the orchestra still sounds astonishing -- no wonder film composers such as Bernard Herrmann admired him decades later.'. + Informações

Piano Concerto No. 1 by Cyril Scott. Performed by Howard Shelley. Conducted by Martyn Brabbins with the BBC Philharmonic. I. Allegro Maestoso - Animato - Molto Tranquillo - 00:00 II. Adagio - Sostenuto - Animato - 12:49 III. Allegro Poco Moderato - Poco Sostenuto - Estatico - 20:45 Scott's early masterpiece, the first Piano Concerto, is one of the orchestral works composed after the Second World War. The large scale Piano Concerto was composed immediately before the First World War and premiered by Scott himself, with the London Symphony Orchestra under the baton of his friend Sir Thomas Beecham. Scott's static and exotic harmony, and his use of ostinati, repeated motifs, exotic orchestral colours and the bell-like effect of repeated fourths lend the work an oriental sound world. Scott himself said about it: 'It's as if Scarlatti had lived in China'.. + Informações

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Cello Concerto by Cyril Scott. Performed by Paul Watkins. Conducted by Martyn Brabbins with the BBC Philharmonic. I. Molto Tranquillo - 00:00 II. Intermezzo Pastorale - Andante Molto Sostenuto - 16:50 II. Rondo Giocoso - 20:51 The Debussy-esque Cello Concerto was written in 1937. This virtuosic and extravagant work is full of mysticism and haunting melodies.. + Informações

Symphony No. 4 by Cyril Scott. Conducted by Martyn Brabbins with the BBC Philharmonic.. I. Adagio - Andante Poco Rubato - 00:00 II. Molto Tranqullo - 9:34 III. Scherzo - Allegro - Allegro Non Troppo - 16:39 IV. Rondo Retrospettivo - Adaio - Energico - 20:33 "The Fourth Symphony was completed in 1952, but has not been performed until now. The music is characterised by its onward ?ow, which despite constantly changing time signatures, sometimes of an exotic nature, maintains a plastic continuity. Scott's instrumental lines are often unexpectedly chromatic, supported by harmonies based on fourths, and the orchestration,incorporating orchestral piano, is colourful and constantly changing. At great climaxes, especially when underpinned by glittering harp glissandi, one tends to be reminded of the biggest moments in Ravel or Debussy, particularly towards the end of the work." "A preludial Adagio introduces the ?rst movement, creating a distinctive mood and a world of its own with a brief motif in the strings, an ascending scale, and a ?gure of rising and falling triplets, all of which will reappear throughout. Remembering Scott's pre-war orchestral tone poem Neptune one notes the frequent use of similar orchestral textures, especially in the ?rst movement, and wonders whether this, again, is sea music. Scott offers us no clue. The movement falls into two sections, a vigorous exploration of the opening ideas and an extended slower episode,coloured by many instrumental solos .... + Informações

Cyril Scott (1912) [ Music and photo are posted just for the benefit of the artists involved. If someone (artist, label, authors) feels that this video should be removed, please do let me know ]. + Informações

CYRIL SCOTT: Lotus Land, recorded for the Duo-Art Pianola Piano by Percy Grainger at Aeolian Hall in New York City, published as roll no. 7127 in March 1928, and played back in May 2009 on a Hamburg Steinway Duo-Art grand, no. 241071, in London, England. Lotus Land is heavy with the scent of opium, every forward surge of the music sinking back into the mists of lethargy and forgetfulness. Grainger and Scott were good friends, so perhaps their acquaintance helped Grainger to this particularly sensitive performance. Audio recording copyright 2009 by the Pianola Institute. Photo depicts Percy Grainger and W. Creary Woods, one of the Duo-Art recording producers for the Aeolian Company in New York, in the roll editing suite at Aeolian Hall in West 42nd Street, with its tell-tale cane chairs. Percy Grainger is a favourite of ours, ever since we re-introduced him to the concert platform in 1972, 11 years after he had joined the immortals. He recently recorded the Grieg Piano Concerto by means of his Duo-Art rolls, with the Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Rolf Gupta. The CD is due to be released in August 2009, and the recording company website at www.2L.no has more details. Player pianos can be very fine musical instruments. Visit the Pianola Institute website and discover the truth about these wonderful inventions! www.pianola.org. + Informações

Piano Concerto No. 2 by Cyril Scott. Performed by Howard Shelley. Conducted by Martyn Brabbins with the BBC Philharmonic. I. Con Moto - Meno Mosso - Vigoroso - 00:00 II. Tranquillo Pastoral - Adagio - 9:48 III. Energico - Grazioso - Moderato - 14:38 Scott eschews the orchestral opulence of the earlier symphony in his Second Piano Concerto, giving the piano a leading role and calling for comparatively modest instrumental forces which he uses with restraint. The freely chromatic harmony and fluid changes of pulse are typical of his later music.. + Informações

Percy Grainger plays Cyril Scott, Lotus Land Op. 47 No. 1., in a 1929 Duo-Art reproducing piano roll recording. It is played on a ca. 1929 Chickering Duo-Art that I recently restored. Grainger was a close friend of Scott, and they even recorded some two-piano music together, so this is a version that Scott heard and approved of. It is considered by some (like the Pianola Institute) to be one of the best Duo-Art recordings ever made.. + Informações

Cyril Scott (1879-1970) is best known today for his piano piece 'Lotus Land', but is other works (harmonically advanced for their day) are beginning to be recorded and performed more widely than for many years. This was once one of his most popular pieces. For more information on Scott's life and music, have a look at the site set up by his granddaughter Amanta (herself a musician): www.cyrilscott.net ------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------------------------------- Played by Phillip Sear http. + Informações

Me, Kelly Jarvis, singing Lullaby for the 2011 Berit Beck scholarship contest. Berit Beck is a memorial scholarship for a previous student, Berit, who attended Case High School and was going on to school for music. She went missing shortly after she was finished with high school. They found her body and it was determined as murder. No body knows what exactly happened. For more information: www.fox11online.com Lullaby - Cyril Scott Accompanied By Elizabeth Steege. + Informações

The Golden Age of Light Music: Reflections of Tranquility. + Informações

This is one of my favorite pieces. Cyril Scott was an English pianist and prolific composer. He was born in 1879. At age 12, he went to Frankfurt, Germany, to study at the Hoch Conservatory where studied piano under Lazarro Uzelli and theory with Engelbert Humperdink (his real name). Cyril Scott returned to England in 1898 and remained there as a composer and poet until his death in 1970. I played this live at Wigmore Hall in London.. + Informações

Cyril Scott and Percy Grainger play Symphonic Dance Op. 22 No. 1 by Cyril Scott, arranged by Grainger for two pianos. Recorded in 1922 on Duo-Art reproducing piano roll and played on a ca. 1929 Chickering Duo-Art piano.. + Informações

Cyril Meir Scott (1879-1970) was a prolific British composer of the early 20th century, sometimes known as "The English Debussy." Today he is best known for his short piano work "Lotus Land" Op. 47 No.1 in E flat minor from 1905, which he performs here on Ampico reproducing piano roll #66321H, issued in the US in July 1926. The performance was originally recorded for Hupfield-DEA Phonola in Leipzig, Germany and was one of the rare but important Hupfield recordings that Ampico reissued in the mid-1920s. Few recordings of Scott's playing survive, and this particular performance is an important but rarely-heard record of how he intended it to be performed. Lotus Land is a romantic tone poem that presents a languid, dreamy and perhaps somewhat opium-laced vision of the east. The roll is performed on a restored 1926 Knabe 5'4" grand. For more information, see www.historicpianos.com.. + Informações

Jonathan Brahms plays The Extatic Shepherd by Cyril Scott (1879 - 1970) for Solo Flute on alto flute sometime in the early 1980's. Like Syrinx by Claude Debussy, this work is dedicated to the great French flutist Louis Fleury and like Syrinx, it is was composed to be heard during a play. The composer specifies: "To be played in the ante-room of the stage with the door ajar". Con moto liquidamente - (with motion, flowing like a liquid). + Informações

Cherry Ripe by Cyril Scott for violin and piano. Yuriy Mikhlin, violin, and David Barela, piano, was recorded on July 18, 2010, at Gethsemane Lutheran Church, Seattle, Washilgton.. + Informações

Cyril Scott: Lotus Land op. 47 no. 1 Edward Cohen, piano Recorded live at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama Concert Hall. + Informações

Cyril Scott (1879-1970) is best known today for his piano piece 'Lotus Land', but is other works (harmonically advanced for their day) are beginning to be recorded and performed more widely than for many years. This piece (an appropriate upload for the British mid-winter) is prefaced by a poem from Scott's own collection 'The Grave of Eros and the Book of Mournful Melodies with dreams from the East'. To give a flavour of its style, it ends woth the words 'We sing entwined - no longer can we read the sunless dial; / And e'en the wasted willows whisper weary words.' For more information on Scott's life and music, have a look at the site set up by his granddaughter Amanta (herself a musician): www.cyrilscott.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Played by Phillip Sear http. + Informações

This extraordinary piece was written for the British cellist Beatrice Harrison. Julian Lloyd Webber, cello John Lenehan, piano. + Informações

A performance of Cyril Scott's Lotus Land. I thought it could have been better, but overall I like it.. + Informações

Cyril Scott (1879-1970) is best known today for his piano piece 'Lotus Land', but is other works (harmonically advanced for their day) are beginning to be recorded and performed more widely than for many years. This piece is Scott's 1915 piano transcription of the well-known Herrick setting by Charles Edward Horn (1786-1849). Scott dedicated the piece (which also exists in a version for violin and piano) to Percy Grainger. For more information on Scott's life and music, have a look at the site set up by his granddaughter Amanta (herself a musician): www.cyrilscott.net ------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------------------------------- Played by Phillip Sear http. + Informações