The Scottish composer Ronald Stevenson (1928-2015) was a virtuoso concert pianist in the tradition of Beethoven, Liszt and Rachmaninov but, like his friend Percy Grainger, he was also fascinated by the folk musics of the world. This third album of his piano music juxtaposes his arrangements of Celtic - Breton, Cornish, Irish, Manx, Scots and Welsh - folk-songs and dances with his Chinese and Ghanaian Folk-Song Suites and his resourceful transcription of Grainger's visionary Hill Song No. 1 for wind band, here realized as an expansive tone-poem for the piano. This is the third installment of Christopher Guild's exploration of Ronald Stevenson's music - a crusade he will soon be extending to other Scottish composers.

Tracklist:

African Twi-Tune (The Bantu & Akrikaaner National Hymns Combined)
Hill Song No. 1 (Arr. R. Stevenson For Piano)
Sounding Strings: No. 1, Harp Of Gold
Sounding Strings: No. 2, The Ash Grove
Sounding Strings: No. 3, Hal-An-Tow
Sounding Strings: No. 4, A Fairy's Love Song
Sounding Strings: No. 5, The Sheep Under The Snow
Sounding Strings: No. 6, Savourneen Deelish
Sounding Strings: No. 7, The Cockle-Gatherer
Sounding Strings: No. 8, Tune From County Derry
Sounding Strings: No. 9, Eriskay Love-Lilt
Sounding Strings: No. 10, Ben Dorain
Sounding Strings: No. 11, La Basse-Breton
Sounding Strings: No. 12, The Old Woman's Reel
Sounding Strings: No. 13, L'angelus Breton
Sounding Strings: No. 14, The Christ Child's Lullaby
Chinese Folk-Song Suite: I. The Washer-Woman And The Flower-Girl
Chinese Folk-Song Suite: II. A Song For New Year's Day
Chinese Folk-Song Suite: III. The War-Widow's Lament
Chinese Folk-Song Suite: IV. Beautiful Fresh Flower
Chinese Folk-Song Suite: V. Song Of The Crab-Fisher
Ghanaian Folk-Song Suite: I. Song Of Valour
Ghanaian Folk-Song Suite: II. Consolation
Ghanaian Folk-Song Suite: III. Leopard Dance
Bonny At Morn (Arr. R. Stevenson For Piano)
The High Road To Linton (Arr. R. Stevenson For Piano)
Barra Flyting Toccata

UPC: 5060113444035
Label: Toccata
Release Date: 2.15.19
Format: CD

Stevenson / Guild - Piano Music 3 (CD)