Derek B. Scott: Orchestral Music, Volume Five
Derek Scott, born in Birmingham in 1950, has a long history of engagement with the British music hall and other forms of light entertainment, as both historian and performer. Many of his own compositions attest to this interest in popular styles, with his craftsmanship and natural feeling for a good tune producing music of immediate appeal. His Third Symphony has something of Prokofiev’s Classical Symphony about it, its fondness for modal harmony also linking it with the soundworld of Vaughan Williams, English folksong and the time of the Tudors, echoed in the courtly grace of Scott’s Piano Concerto. The sense of humour implicit in those works is then given full rein in the tongue-in-cheek, Stravinskyan Apathetic Suite.
Peter Jablonski, piano
Liepāja Symphony Orchestra
Paul Mann, conductor
Listen To This Recording:
Symphony No. 3 in A major, Op. 34 (2020–25) (27:52)
- I. Allegro con brio (7:14)
- II. Gavotte (Allegretto) (6:39)
- III. Lento e tranquillo (7:48)
- IV. Vivace (6:01)
Piano Concerto in E major, Op. 38 (2021–25) (24:36)
- I. Allegro (7:13)
- II. Adagietto (6:09)
- III. Waltz (Allegretto) (5:09)
- IV. Allegro vivace (6:05)
Apathetic Suite, Op. 3 (1973, rev. 2023) (13:50)
- I. Tedium (Moderato tedioso) (2:45)
- II. Lethargy and Denial (Adagio letargico) (2:45)
- III. Futile Frustration (Allegro molto con frustrazione inutile) (1:13)
- IV. Frivolity (Allegro frivolo) (2:25)
- V. Aimlessness (Allegro girovagando) (2:06)
- VI. Nonchalance (Allegretto indifferente e insolente) (2:36)
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