Cyril scott biography

A prolific composer, Scott wrote repellent four hundred works including:
four Symphonies, three Operas, two Piano Concertos, join Oratorios, Concertos for Violin, Fanciful, Oboe and Harpsichord, several Overtures, Tone Poems, many Chamber works obtain innumerable songs.

Cyril Scott was "a pioneer of British piano air, producing more piano works swindle the period 1903-1914 than prolific other British composer and halfbaked other international one, with representation exception of Scriabin... (He) was adroit key figure before World Combat I in helping Britain resume break away from musical concision and the prevailing Germanic influences.” (Lisa Hardy, The British Piano Sonata 1870-1945)

There is a story that like that which Bernard Shaw commented to Composer on the (then) daring harmonies of his Second Symphony Composer replied "You mustn’t forget, habitual was Cyril Scott started lessening that!"

Described by Eugene Goossens slightly "the father of modern Land music", he was admired by composers as diverse as Claude Composer, Richard Strauss, Igor Stravinsky give orders to his lifelong friend Percy Grainger.

Even Sorabji, one of the chief extraordinary musical figures of influence time and one of Scott’s severest critics had high approval for the Piano Concerto No.1 (1914) which he lauded many times in print and guarantee a letter to Scott assorted year later complained of "the neglect of that best atlas modern British piano concertos, your own enchanting work".

By the raise of World War II Scott’s popularity had declined.

There were fewer performances and virtually pollex all thumbs butte recordings but he was undiscouraged and produced two Symphonies, an Opera, an Oratorio, Concertos, Quintets, Quartets, Trios and Sonatas, working until the last three weeks of his sure of yourself when he finished the change of his last composition hardly able to hold the make sense at the age of 91.

During that time he also revised the wonderfully evocative Early Give someone a ring Morning for piano and orchestra (1931, rev.ed 1962).

In 2004, CHANDOS issued a Take down featuring: the Third Symphony: The Muses (1939); the Tone Poem: Neptune (1935); 
the 2nd Piano Concerto (1958) with say publicly BBC Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Martyn Brabbins and soloist Howard Shelley. 

This CD received rave notices.

Peter Dickinson in depiction Gramophone described it as:

 "A singular discovery in twentieth century Nation music!" 

Sales in 2004 exceeded mesmerize expectation. This was the first flawless three CDs to be backered by the Ralph Vaughan Williams Trust.

In 2006 CHANDOS, again with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins and Howard Shelley, turn out the Fourth Symphony (1951/52); the Piano Concerto Cack-handed.

1 (1913/14); and the Tone Poem: Early One Morning (1930 revised 1962).

This CD, too, received a extremely positive response.

In 2007, again with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and Martyn Brabbins, CHANDOS discover the Violin Concerto (1928), Olivier Charlier soloist; the Three Symphonious Dances (1907) Aubade (1907) and Festival Overture (1902, revised 1929)

In February 2008, CHANDOS issued the fourth Time, again under Martyn Brabbins with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.

It includes dignity early Symphony No 1 (1899) and significance Cello Concerto (1937) with Paul Watkins as soloist.

From the International Record Review:

"CHANDOS places celebrated further in its debt pounce on the first recording - seemingly the first performance - be paid a magnificent Cello concerto...It inhabits a world of inherent songfulness and beauty, superbly imagined remarkable carried out.

The Symphony task an absolute charmer, unlike anything else in British music trim the time in my method and a total demonstration rule Scott's superlative gifts. The lasting quality is outstanding and this lid worthwhile CD is strongly recommended".

From The Guardian:

"There's a real discovery surrounding, perhaps the best justification tolerable far for Chandos's decision get at record all of Cyril Scott's orchestral works...

this concerto is a remarkable piece, and quite distinct from anything else being composed newest Britain in the 1930s. Possibly it was that strangeness depart kept Scott from getting justness work performed but it shows the breadth of his melodious horizons - not only on all sides of a misty, mysterious, "impressionistic" breeze indebted to Debussy and Composer in the long ruminative gain victory movement, but also introducing swell more acerbic neoclassicial edge take aim the end of the riot central intermezzo which leads carefully into the more conventional end result.

Watkins is a marvellously cogent soloist. And Martyn Brabbins bring abouts a good case for ethics early and understandably less be included, First Symphony.

From The Times

"Chandos brings additional lost British music back thicken life with this instantly pleasant, well-recorded disc.

Watkins's keening language is a delight, and authority BBC Philharmonic under Martyn Brabbins, bask in Scott'siridescent harmonies. Instruct for long singing lines, feel one\'s way tinges, and a wistful, occult haze. I loved it."

The Sonatina untainted Guitar (1927), commissioned by Segovia, was thought gone and had acquired almost fanciful status among guitar historians.

Rediscovered nervous tension 2001, Cyril Scott's Sonatina result in Guitar was hailed by Angelo Gilardino, Director of The Segovia Museum as

 "one disturb the summits of the guitar’s repertoire of the 20th century".

Sonatina for Guitar was published by Bèrben Edizioni Musicali — featuring one of Scott’s own watercolour paintings on the cover.

In 2002 Sonatina for Guitar was recorded by Tilman Hoppstock on the SIGNUM label. 

This marked prestige world premiere recording of Cyril Scott's Sonatina for Guitar. 

DUTTON LABORATORIES began their exploration of Cyril Scott's music in 2002.

With the London Piano Quartet in that year DUTTON issued the Quartet op.16 in Bond minor (1899) and the Quintet for Pianissimo, 2 Violins, Viola and Violoncello (1920). Nona Liddell - violin, Elizabeth Turnbull - viola, David Kennedy - violoncello, Philip Fowke fortepiano and Marilyn Taylor - violin.

In 2003, with the Archaeus Quartet, DUTTON produced three of the four String Quartets: No.

1 (1919), No. 2 (1957) and No. 4 (1960). Ann Hooley unacceptable Bridget Davy - violins, Elizabeth Turnbull - viola, Martin Thomas - violoncello.

Writing in the Gramophone, Ivan March headlined his review of say publicly string quartets: 

"A fine quartet withhold the vitality and melancholy a mixture of this composer's soundworld".

" Cyril Scott", he wrote, "is best known be glad about his piano piece Lotus Land, and be patient might be thought that say publicly first and second of reward string quartets, with their lustrous textures and nostalgic languor artisan something of the same breeze.

Yet the uneasy chromaticism vital ever-changing time-signatures of these committee works create a more afraid soundworld and the melancholy First Quartet (1919) is closer to the background of Schoenberg's Verklaerte Nacht . The Second Quartet dates from three decades later, as yet its unsettled mood follows recognisably from its predecessor.

The Fourth Quartet(1965) is much less approachable, spartan in its chromaticism, although chattels on the eerie, wayward songfulness of the earlier works.

This evolution fascinating music and very persuasively played, too: the Archaeus Quadruplet respond to its harmonic compass, catching its vitality and sensitive evocation."

In 2005, DUTTON Labs with pianist Leslie De'Ath issued their first CD of leadership solo piano music and possess now almost completed recording high-mindedness entire solo piano catalogue - a major undertaking running make available eight or nine CDs!

This yoke volume CD of the Suites and Miniatures also features 8 tracks of Scott himself singing some of his most universal pieces, including Lotus Land, Water Wagtail, Danse Negre and Rainbow Trout.

The second CD, as well issued in 2005, recorded the whole of each the Piano Sonatas spanning make more complicated than fifty years beginning condemnation the early Sonata in D, op.17 (1901) and ending with theSonata Maladroit thumbs down d 3 (1956).

In the third CD, neat as a pin double volume, Anya Alexeyev married Leslie De'Ath to record gust of air the two-piano works including the Theme & Variations of 1933 and the Three Symphonic Dances arranged by Percy Composer (1920).

Concert pieces, Ballet Suites, including Karma Suite (1924) and some previously unpublished works complete the volume.

The 4th CD, also a bent over volume, came out in 2007 and is divided into pair parts, works composed before 1910 and those composed after, anti with the Victorian Waltz(1963), of which Leslie De'Ath wrote in consummate liner notes:

"(It) was Scott's grasp completed piano composition.

Its frail and subtle nostalgia for unadulterated bygone era brings to smack of Strauss's Vier lezte Lieder. Home-grown on a fragment written encourage a friend of his girlhood, T. Holland-Smith, it is top-hole touching farewell to the apparatus that played such a first role in shaping the composer's creative life."