Christopher Guild - Piano Music 5 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

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. Album Tracks 1. Toccata 2. Hornpipe 3. Three Grounds~Ground in C minor 4. Three Grounds~Ground in E flat minor 5. Three Grounds~Ground in D minor 6. Young Pianist's Delius~No. 1. Dance 7. Young Pianist's Delius~No. 2. Tune from 'Brigg Fair' 8. Young Pianist's Delius~No. 3. La Calinda 9. Young Pianist's Delius~No. 4. Serenade 10. Young Pianist's Delius~No. 5. The Cuckoo 11. Young Pianist's Delius~No. 6. Late Swallows 12. Young Pianist's Delius~No. 7. Intermezzo 13. Young Pianist's Delius~No. 8. Tune from String Quartet 14. Young Pianist's Delius~No. 9. Tune from Violin Sonata No. 2 15. Young Pianist's Delius~No. 10. Themes from 'Song of the High Hills' 16. Little Jazz Variations on Purcell's 'New Scotch Tune' 17. String Quartet No. 5~I. Con moto ben sostenuto 18. String Quartet No. 5~II. Molto tranquillo 19. String Quartet No. 5~III. Impetuosamente 20. String Quartet No. 5~IV. Con spirito 21. String Quartet No. 5~V. Adagio cantando 22. String Quartet No. 5~VI. Finale Allegro con grazia 23. Weep You No More, Sad Fountains 24. Spring Song of