Various Artists - Ronald Stevenson and Friends (2023) Hi-Res

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Artist: Various Artists
Title: Ronald Stevenson and Friends
Year Of Release: 2023
Label: ASC Records
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks) / FLAC 24 Bit (44,1 KHz / tracks)
Total Time: 67:30 min
Total Size: 235 / 576 MB
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist:

01. Country Gardens for two recorders
02. A Year Owre Young
03. To Autumn
04. Celtic Triptych i. Slow Air
05. Celtic Triptych ii. Strathspey Scottish Dance
06. Celtic Triptych iii. Twelve-note jig
07. A Wee Holiday Suite - i. Bipo's Dance
08. A Wee Holiday Suite - ii. A Balow for a Balough
09. A Wee Holiday Suite - iii. Bipo's Sleepo
10. A Wee Holiday Suite - iv. Ulla's and Ella's Veranda-Hike
11. A Wee Holiday Suite - v. Bipo's ear-pop
12. Little Cynical Songs i. Nostalgia for Sweet Friendship
13. Little Cynical Songs ii. The Little Goddess Pan
14. Little Cynical Songs iii. Torch Song For Dead Love
15. Little Cynical Songs iv. Weave Me
16. Little Cynical Songs v. Happy Ending Song
17. Skye Blue
18. David Johnson, Prelude No. 1
19. David Johnson, Prelude No. 1 Fugue
20. David Johnson, Prelude No. 6
21. David Johnson, Prelude No. 6 Fugue
22. David Johnson, Prelude No. 8
23. David Johnson, Prelude No. 8 Fugue
24. Improvisations on themes of Emanuel Moor i
25. Improvisations on themes of Emanuel Moor ii
26. Improvisations on themes of Emanuel Moor iii
27. Two Songs to poems by William Soutar: i. Hallowe'en Sang
28. Two Songs to poems by William Soutar: ii. The Quiet Comes In
29. Prelude 29
30. Over the Hills and Far Away
31. Country Gardens for two recorders (Extended Version)

This CD celebrates the Scottish, but Blackburn born, composer Ronald Stevenson, best known for his piano music (he was himself a virtuoso pianist), but his enormous work list spans most genres except opera, and this disc includes all his works for recorder, interspersed with some of his songs in widely divergent styles with piano and instrumental accompaniment. His Scottish composer friends were legion, and this disc includes music by several of them, David Johnson, John Purser, Wilma Paterson and Eddie McGuire. His overseas friends were many, and notably included Grainger, some of whose music Stevenson arranged for various instruments. Grainger himself made two entrancing versions of the well known and much loved Country Gardens for recorders, at his friend Balfour Gardiner's house, which bookend this disc, and have not previously been heard. John Turner, March 2023

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