Release Date: 07 May 2021
Label: Toccata Classics - Cd / Toccata Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5060113446060
Genres: Classical Solo Instrumental
Composer/Series: Ronald Stevenson
Description
The personal generosity that made the Scottish composer Ronald Stevenson (1928–2015) such a warm and vibrant character extended also to his writing-desk: around a quarter of his enormous output is given over to transcriptions, mostly for piano, of music by other composers. Here he pays homage to three earlier colleagues whose music he particularly esteemed: Purcell, Delius and van Dieren. Stevenson described his version of Van Dieren’s String Quartet No. 5 (1931) as ‘transcribed as a piano sonata (which B. v. D. never composed)’ – and thus it became the piano sonata which Stevenson himself never composed. The album ends with Stevenson’s brief but achingly beautiful harmonisation of Purcell’s The Queen’s Dolour – as exquisite an example of the transcriber’s art as anyone could wish.
London Philharmonic Orchestra; Nick Palmer
Jan Lehtola
Ian Mardon; Matthias Bromann; Julia Mensching; Olga Lubotsky; Suren Arisonyan; Clovis Michon; Andre
Basil C. Vendryes; William David
Viktor Valkov
Petri Komulainen; Jan Lehtola
Zemtsov/Bulgarian Nrso
Williams/Daniell/Lepper
The Vasari Singers
Oberwalliser Vokalensemble
Guild
Guild
Zolinsky
Westminster Choir/Ny Phil
Watkin
