The Scottish Romantics

Hamish MacCunn
Tracks 1 – 6: Six Scotch Dances
John Blackwell McEwan
Tracks 8 – 11: Four Sketches for Pianoforte
Tracks 12 – 14: Sonatina for Pianoforte
Tracks 15 – 17: Three ‘Keats’ Preludes
Tracks 18 – 20: On southern Hills
Tracks 21 – 25: Five Vignettes from La Côte d’Argent
Alexander C Mackenzie
Track 26: Refrain
Track 27: High Spirits
Track 28: Chasse aux Papillons
Tracks 29 – 31: Trois Morceaux
Track 32: Harvest Home

The music on this CD is largely unfamiliar and previously unrecorded. It was written by a group of distinguished turn-of-the-century Scottish musicians who were in their time well-respected academics, but modest to a fault about their own creative talents.

The piano miniatures presented here communicate with a directness, strength and mastery of technique which is often highly tuneful, rhythmically infectious and poetically moving.

In short, here is a collection of delightful piano ‘lollipops’ which have been shockingly neglected; a substantial corpus of well-crafted music for all to enjoy and admire.