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Background: This unique programme explores orchestral music from Cyril Scott's middle period and features the premiere recording of Neptune and Symphony No.3 The Muses. While still in his twenties, Scott was perceived as one of the pre-eminent avant-garde musicians of his generation.

The score of Neptune is a revised version of Scott's symphonic poem Disaster at Sea, a programmatic account of the sinking of the Titanic. The work evokes a cold calm sea, becoming more animated as the ship sails on its way. Later the trombones clearly evoke a foghorn and a tremendous climax follows. A series of storm episodes ensue before the whole orchestra takes up a lament for loss at sea.

Symphony No.3 The Muses requires an enormous orchestra, including four flutes, a large percussion section with wind machine and two harps, the distinctive sound of orchestral piano, and in the last movement a vocalising choir. The symphony, which celebrates four of the nine muses (daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne and the spirits of poetry, the arts and astronomy), is the crowning work of Scott's compositional career up to the outbreak of the Second World War.

Scott eschews the orchestral opulence of the earlier symphony in his Second Piano Concerto, giving the piano a leading role and calling for comparatively modest instrumental forces which he uses with restraint. The freely chromatic harmony and fluid changes of pulse are typical of his later music.

CATALOGUE NR: CHAN10211
RECORD LABEL: Chandos
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 12.50 including VAT, or £ 10.64 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 05-Apr-2004

COMPOSER: Cyril Scott
TRACKS: Symphony No.3 The Muses. Piano Concerto No.2. Neptune.
ORCHESTRA: BBC Philharmonic
CONDUCTOR: Martyn Brabbins
ARTISTS: Huddersfield Choral Society   Howard Shelley    

- Jul-2004 4 star BBC Music Mag. - Jun-2004 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'The warmest of welcomes for a remarkable discovery in 20th-century British music'

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