Derek B. Scott: Orchestral Music
Derek Scott, born 1950, Birmingham, has an international reputation as a leading historian of the British music hall and other forms of light entertainment but he is an outstanding composer in his own right, his music treading a fine line between a very English whimsy and a profoundly felt and natural response to his (often Celtic) subject matter. These works reveal a master, who finds deep feeling behind the levity
John Key, bagpipe
Liepāja Symphony Orchestra
Paul Mann, conductor
Listen To This Recording:
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Pagan Overture, Op. 2 (1973)
- Pagan Overture, Op. 2
- Airs and Dances
- Brannigan’s Journey, Op. 30
- Dafydd y Garreg Wen: Fantasia for Orchestra, Op. 25
- I March
- II Ballad
- III Double Fugue
- IV Variations
- V Scherzo
- Chacony, Op. 24
- Fugal Overture, Op. 6
- Kirkliston Waltz, Op. 31
- Clear the Decks!: Boogie Woogie for Orchestra, Op. 21
Airs and Dances: Concerto for Highland Bagpipe and Orchestra, Op. 28 (1998)
Brannigan’s Journey, Op. 30 (2003)
Dafydd y Garreg Wen: Fantasia for Orchestra, Op. 25 (1996)
Suite Grotesque, Op. 32 (2006/2020)
Chacony, Op. 24 (1995, rev. 2019)
Fugal Overture, Op. 6 (1975)
Kirkliston Waltz, Op. 31 (2003)
Clear the Decks!: Boogie Woogie for Orchestra, Op. 21 (1995)
FIRST RECORDINGS
MusicWeb International :
‘Piper John Dew, young but experienced, is a composer himself and plays his concerto with imaginative flair. The Liepāja Symphony seem to be able to turn its hand to pretty much all aspects of the repertoire without sounding in any way non-committal or as if it’s sight-reading its way through. Much of the credit for that goes to Paul Mann who is a Toccata regular by now.
None of the works in this disc is on the large-scale side but everything is sharply, warmly, wittily and communicatively generous in its impact.’
—Jonathan Woolf, MusicWeb International