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This fourth volume in Christopher Guild's ongoing survey of the piano music of the pianist-composer Ronald Stevenson (1928-2015) - a major figure in the cultural life of twentieth-century Scotland - presents works inspired by the human voice, where Stevenson was concerned above all to make the piano sing, to allow it to express human feeling as naturally as possible. That concern can be heard both in his own pieces and his many transcriptions of music by other composers, which balance sophisticated craftsmanship and a refreshing emotional directness. Album Tracks 1. Suite from Paderewski's 'Manru'~I. Introduction and Gipsy March 2. Suite from Paderewski's 'Manru'~II. Gipsy Song 3. Suite from Paderewski's 'Manru'~III. Lullaby 4. Suite from Paderewski's 'Manru'~IV. Cracovienne 5. Song Without Words 6. Nine Haiku~No. 1 Dedication 7. Nine Haiku~No. 2 The Fly 8. Nine Haiku~No. 3 Gone Away 9. Nine Haiku~No. 4 Nocturne 10. Nine Haiku~No. 5 Master and Pupil 11. Nine Haiku~No. 6 Spring 12. Nine Haiku~Interlude The Blossoming Cherry (Aubade) 13. Nine Haiku~No. 7 Curfew 14. Nine Haiku~No. 8 Hiroshima 15. Nine Haiku~No. 9 Epilogue 16. Louise Romance, transcription for piano (after Charpentier) 17. Art Nouveau du chant appliqué au piano, Vol. 1~No. 1. Elëanore (Coleridge-Taylor) 18. Art Nouveau du chant appliqué au piano, Vol. 1~No. 2. So We'll Go No More A-Roving (White) 19. Art Nouveau du chant appliqué au piano, Vol. 1~No. 3. Romance Plus Blanche Que la Plus Blanche Hermine (Les Huguenots) (Meyerbeer) 20. Art Nouveau du chant appliqué au piano, Vol. 1~No. 4. In the Silent Night (Rachmaninov) 21. Art Nouveau du chant appliqué au piano, Vol. 1~No. 5. Go Not, Happy Day! (Bridge) 22. Art Nouveau du chant appliqué au piano, Vol. 2~No. 1. Fly Home, Little Heart (Novello) 23. Art Nouveau du chant appliqué au piano, Vol. 2~No. 2. We'
