Pianist Leslie De'Ath's traverse of the vast piano music of Cyril Scott has received remarkable critical plaudits, and here he completes his survey in a two-CDs-for-the-price-of-one package (another wonderful Dutton Epoch bargain), which constitutes Volume Five. This may well turn out to be the most popular of the lot as it includes many of Scott's most celebrated numbers including Lotus Land.

CD 1

Lotus Land op.47/1 (1905) [W183]

Two Pierrot Pieces op.35 (1904) [W253]:
Pierrot triste
Pierrot gai

Solitude op.40/1 (1904) [W326]
Danse negre op.58/5 (1908) [W89]

Two Etudes op.64 (1908) [W111]:
Allegro
Allegro con brio

Mazurka op.67/1 (1909) [W197]
Water-wagtail (Bergeronnette) op.71/3 (1910) [W414]
Barcarolle (1912) [W41]
Pierrette (1912) [W250]

Poems (1912) [W255]:
Poppies
The Garden of Soul-sympathy
Bells
The Twilight of the Year
Paradise-birds

Prelude solennel (1913) [W260]
Rainbow Trout (1916) [W283]
First Bagatelle (1919) [W31]
Caprice chinois (1919) [W56]
Arabesque (1923) [W15]
Valse sentimentale (1929) [W397]
Tarantula (1935) [W371]
Impromptu (A Mountain Brook)revised version (1904/1929?) [W152]

CD 2

An English Waltz original version (1903) [W109]

Two Piano Pieces op.37 (1904) [W249]:
At Dawn
Shadows

British Melodies (1912):
All Through the Night [W7]
The Wild Hills of Clare [W419]
Summer is Acumen In [W357]

Britain's War March (1914) [W52]
Carillon (1913) [W57]
Cavatina (1914) [W58]
Diatonic Study (1914) [W94]
Sea-Marge: Meditation (1914) [W312]
Ode héroque (1915) [W224]
Russian Dance (1915) [W301]
Ballad (Variations on a Troubadour Air) (1920) [W32]

Moods (1922) [W209]:
Sadness
Lassitude
Energy

Miss Remington (1934) [W206]
Pastoral Ode (1961) [W238]

My Heart Ever Faithful
transcription for solo piano by Cyril Scott of J.S. Bach, Mein glubiges Herze', aria from Cantata no.68 (1931) [W424]

Concerto in C AA
transcription for two pianos by Cyril Scott of J.S. Bach, BWV 595 (itself a transcription for solo keyboard of a violin concerto by Prinz Ernst von Saxe-Weimar) (c.1935)

Danse negre op.58/5 AA transcription for two pianos by Cyril Scott (1935) [W90]
Lotus Land op.47/1 AA transcription for two pianos by Cyril Scott (1948) [W184]

Leslie De'ath (piano)
AA with Anya Alexeyev (piano)

Recorded:
Maureen Forrester Recital Hall, Faculty of Music, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 6 & 11 June and 22 August 2007, except 14 December 2005 (Ballad); 30 December 2005 (Solitude); 17 &19 July 2006 (Arabesque, Two Piano Pieces, Moods)

Legend:
Premiere recording
Unrecorded except on piano roll or 78rpm

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