Shelley interpretation is a benchmark for this Scott masterpiece and in general for most composers, often rarely executed. For whom likes Scott's music a "must have" is De'Ath 5 CD solo piano pieces
@@pietrolandri6081 There is a richness of Theosophical etc wisdom and open hearted writing there. I was given them at 16. Optimistic and good humoured works. Not sure if still available other than very misprinted pdfs. A highly talented soul😊
@@sabrinafinkel92 oh great you were reading these things at 16. When I was 16 (too many years ago, jeez☹) I was captured by Dostoevskij, Mann and Kafka.
@@pietrolandri6081 Never read Mann.. recommend? I have been living in Prague for 26 years, so I know Kafka a bit😊 Started re-reading Initiate books last month and finally found CS music. It was my father who brought the books back from the library, random chance, he says...People very often appeared with special books etc at certain times, poetry and music...
As with all Cyril Scott music it's very pretty sounds in an impressionists style but it never goes anywhere. Is there a melody or just pretty chords? I want to try to like Scott but I get frustrated listening waiting for it to do something or go somewhere. It's pretty but pretty inconsequential. Sorry !
Thanks. I hadn't realised what a tenth-rate composer Cyril was. This piece kind of proves it. Now I realise why all his contemporaries tried to stop him writing music. He only understood how to do 'rhetoric' and 'bridge passage'. He has no material. There is no meat at all in his sandwich. It's a hoot, it's so bad as composition
I bet you are a much better composer, but wait.... Kim Jones, never heard of. Cyril Scott, wait, recorded extensively, with some magnificent Symphonies. Where are yours?
Kim, I agree with you, at least when it comes to this piece. It's got beautiful orchestration, wonderful harmonies and rhythms, but not a single distinctive theme. It all sounds like a grand accompaniment to something...who knows what? Movie scenes perhaps. Nevertheless, thank you to Bartje Bartmans for his hard work bringing us seldom-heard music.
Well, in that case you possibly think the same about Max Reger. They are connected by the fact that one needs a finished and extensive piano technique to even begin to play them. And very good ears to appreciate them. Those without these attributes simply need not apply.
Kim Jones Convincing others of what you think is the quality of a particular piece of music is only worth doing if it's something you think is great, and you want others to also experience the pleasure. The only change that may happen when telling others something is tenth-rate is a loss of pleasure of those who enjoy it-provided of course, they fail to note the determination to demolish that's indicated by saying it's 10th-rate(rather than just the usual 2nd, 3rd or even 4th rate, that's the description employed when rating something found to be unimpressive). Those noting such determination, I suspect would simply have a chuckle and go back to enjoying the piece.
yess thank you so much for uploading this! There was another version (not sheet music) on RU-vid but it was a different recording I wasn't a big fan of
