Derek B. Scott: Six Song-Cycles for Baritone and Chamber Ensemble
Derek Scott, born in Birmingham in 1950, 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 subject matter. These six song-cycles – with influences ranging from Vaughan Williams to The Beatles – reveal a master craftsman and natural tunesmith, who manages to unite good humour, unerring technique and deep feeling in music of immediate appeal, setting texts by poets who include Burns, Hardy, Shakespeare, Swift, Wordsworth, Yeats and the composer himself.
James Atkinson, baritone
Lynn Arnold, piano (Tracks 1-8, 14-26)
Tippett Quartet
John Mills and Jeremy Isaac, violins
Lydia Lowndes-Northcott, viola
Božidar Vukotić, cello
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Former Beauties, Op. 0 (1972)
- I She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways
- II A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General
- III Highland Mary
- IV The Album
- V Former Beauties
- No. 1 Sonnet 27
- No. 2 Sonnet 49
- No. 3 Sonnet 113
- No. 1 The Lake Isle of Innisfree
- No. 2 The Sorrow of Love
- No. 3 Who Goes with Fergus?
- No. 4 A Cradle Song
- No. 5 The Ballad of Father Gilligan
- No. 1 Your Many Gifts to Me
- No. 2 A Hidden Meaning
- No. 3 As I Wait for Friday
- No. 1 The Song of Wandering Aengus
- No. 2 Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
- No. 3 The Cap and Bells
- No. 4 The Fiddler of Dooney
- I To Lizbie Browne
- II The Darkling Thrush
- III The Tenant-for-Life
- IV The Levelled Churchyard
- V The Ruined Maid
- VI To Life
Three Shakespeare Sonnets, Op. 5 (1974)
Five Songs from The Rose, Op. 14 (1982)
Three Love Songs, Op. 19 (1986)
Four Songs from The Wind among the Reeds, Op. 22 (1993)
Past and Present, Op. 33 (2017)
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