Concert Listings, CD Releases and other news:

2010
Luigi Attademo plays Sonatina for Guitar
May 4th 2010 at The Duke's Hall,
Royal Academy of Music, London.

Luigi Attademo was one of the very first people to play the Sonata after its rediscovery among the Segovia papers in 2001 by Angelo Gilardino.


(previously scheduled concert April 24 cancelled due to volcano, all planes in UK grounded)

Dutton Epoch announces recording of newly recovered Oboe Concerto

The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra under Martin Yates with Jonathan Small as soloist will perform the concerto on March 31.

First heard in 1947 with Leon Goossens as soloist, this will be the premier recording of the work.

Due for a summer release, this promises to be a most unusual and fascinating programme featuring Oboe Concertos by contemporary composers who died within ten years of each other, Cyril Scott and Armstrong Gibbs and two works by living composers Christopher Wright, Oboe Concerto and Elis Pehkonen Amor Vincit Omnia for oboe d'amore and strings.


The Irish Suite for violin and piano (Irish Dance and Irish Lament)
originally published by Schirmer and long out of print
will soon be available from Novello - www.musicsales.co.uk

CD Release

Cyril Scott: Piano Trios Nos. 1 and 2
Clarinet Quintet / Clarinet Trio
Cornish Boat Song

Gould Piano Trio
Alice Neary, cello; Robert Plane, clarinet

Gould Piano Trio:
Benjamin Frith, piano; David Adams, viola; Lucy Gould, violin;
Mia Cooper, violin

2009
Lost manuscript found!














Lost Oboe Concerto score recovered and soon to be recorded!

Thanks to conductor Peter Marchbank, who recorded the first orchestral CD of Scott's music with the South African Broadcasting Corporation in 1992, and author Lewis Foreman who has written the liner notes to all the Chandos Scott CDs the score of the oboe concerto has now been recovered.

The concerto was written for Leon Goossens who performed it at its premiere in 1948 at a Prom concert conducted by Stanford Robinson.
Lost since the 1960s it has only now turned up again.

Dutton, the label that has recorded much Scott already, is to produce it later this year with Jonathan Small as soloist and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra under Martin Yates.


concert encore:

Lotus Land




"James Ehnes and Andrew Armstrong gave a scrumptious encore - Cyril Scott's voluptuously langourous Lotus Land."

Ken Winters, Toronto Globe & Mail.


"Lotus Land is fast becoming one of my favourite encore pieces."
James Ehnes, violinist.

Originally written for piano, Scott praised the violin arrangement by Fritz Kreisler and said he actually preferred it and would have written it for violin himself if his publisher had not dissuaded him, telling him violin pieces didn't sell as well as piano! Both versions have been recorded many times over and there are some fifty arrangements for every conceivable instrument, including two with vocals.

The final double CD of piano music recorded for Dutton Labs by Leslie De’Ath is due out February 2009.

Saving the best for the last it includes some of Scott’s most famous pieces such as Lotus Land, Danse Negre, the five Poems, Water Wagtail and Rainbow Trout as well as many less familiar works never before recorded. They range from An English Waltz (c.1900) dedicated to Percy Grainger who played it on tour with Adelina Patti in 1902, to Pastoral Ode (1961).

Leslie De’Ath and Anya Alexeyev also play Danse Negre and Lotus Land in two-piano transcriptions that Scott probably made for use as encores when he and Esther Fisher were performing together in the 1930’s.
2008
CD Release

Northern Lights. English Cello Music 1920-1950

John Ireland - Sonata in G minor
Edgar Bainton - Sonata for 'cello and piano*
Cyril Scott - Ballade for 'cello and piano*
Alan Rawsthorne - Sonata for 'cello and piano
John Ireland - The holy boy
*premiere recordings
Meridian, CDE84565.

Emma Ferrand - Cello
Jeremy Young - Piano

Available to buy online from Meridian Records.


Wednesday September 10th at 7.30

Lecture-recital by pianist Terence Allbright
 
William Alwyn: Sonata alla Toccata
Cyril Scott: Sonata no 1, opus 66

illustrated lecture followed by complete performance of both works
 
Chapel of the Ascension
Chichester University
College Lane
Chichester PO19 6PE
West Sussex UK
 
presented by Funtington Music Group
Chichester University Music Dept: 01243 816185
tickets at the door £10

terence.allbright@homecall.co.uk

September 15 2008
September 15th 2008

Cyril Scott: Harpsicord Concerto

performed by harpsichordist Jory Vinikour
with The Orion orchestra conducted by Toby Purser

ST JOHN'S SMITH SQUARE, London, England
at 7.30 pm
Tickets £18, £15, £12, (concessions 20% off)
Box Office : +44 (0)20 7222 1061


The Cyril Scott revival continues with
the first performance of the HARPSICHORD CONCERTO
since its premiere at the Wigmore Hall over 70 years ago!

It will be performed by the virtuoso American-born
harpsichordist Jory Vinikour
with The Orion orchestra
conducted by the brilliant young English conductor Toby Purser.

Also on the programme is
the Concertino for Harpsichord by Walter Leigh (1905-1942),
who sadly died young, killed in action during WW11.

Leigh's concertino was composed in 1936, Scott's in 1937.


Two modern harpsichord concertos,
both hitherto neglected and written within a year of each other
by two very different English composers
should make for a fascinating concert!


September 24 2008
6.00 p.m.
Steinway Hall,
44, Marylebone Lane, London, England

Cyril Scott: Aubade for recorder and piano

performed by Caroline Jones - recorder
and Charles matthews- piano


For more information on Cyril Scott, the man, his philosophy and his music
please contact his son and Administrator: Desmond Scott


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