Ronald Stevenson - Ronald Stevenson & Friends - CD

This CD celebrates the Scottish, but Blackburn born, composer Ronald Stevenson, best known for his piano music (he was himself a virtuoso pianist), but his enormous work list spans most genres except opera. This disc includes all his works for recorder, interspersed with some of his songs in widely divergent styles with piano and instrumental accompaniment. Stevenson's Scottish composer friends were legion, and this disc includes music by several of them, David Johnson, John Purser, Wilma Paterson and Eddie McGuire. His overseas friends were many, and notably included Grainger, some of whose music Stevenson arranged for various instruments. Grainger himself made two entrancing versions of the well-known and much loved Country Gardens for recorders, at his friend Balfour Gardiner's house, which bookend this disc, and have not previously been heard.<br><br><b><u>Album Tracks</u></b><br><br><b>1.</b> Country Gardens for Two Recorders<br><b>2.</b> A Year Owre Young<br><b>3.</b> To Autumn<br><b>4.</b> Celtic Triptych I. Slow Air<br><b>5.</b> Celtic Triptych II. Strathspey Scottish Dance<br><b>6.</b> Celtic Triptych III. Twelve-Note Jig<br><b>7.</b> A Wee Holiday Suite - I. Bipo's Dance<br><b>8.</b> A Wee Holiday Suite - II. a Balow for a Balough<br><b>9.</b> A Wee Holiday Suite - III. Bipo's Sleepo<br><b>10.</b> A Wee Holiday Suite - IV. Ulla's and Ella's Veranda-Hike<br><b>11.</b> A Wee Holiday Suite - V. Bipo's Ear-Pop<br><b>12.</b> Little Cynical Songs I. Nostalgia for Sweet Friendship<br><b>13.</b> Little Cynical Songs II. the Little Goddess Pan<br><b>14.</b> Little Cynical Songs III. Torch Song for Dead Love<br><b>15.</b> Little Cynical Songs IV. Weave Me<br><b>16.</b> Little Cynical Songs V. Happy Ending Song<br><b>17.</b> Skye Blue<br><b>18.</b> David Johnson, Prelude No. 1<br><b>19.</b> David Johnson, Prelude No. 1 Fugue<br><b>20.</b> David Johnson, Prelude No. 6<br><b>21.</b> David Johnson, Prelude No. 6 Fugue<br><b>22.</b> David Johnson, Prelude No. 8<br><b>23.</b> David Johnson, Prelude No. 8 Fugue<br><b>24.</b> Improvisations on Themes of Emanuel Moor I<br><b>25.</b> Improvisations on Themes of Emanuel Moor II<br><b>26.</b> Improvisations on Themes of Emanuel Moor III<br><b>27.</b> Two Songs to Poems By William Soutar: I. Hallowe'en Sang<br><b>28.</b> Two Songs to Poems By William Soutar: II. the Quiet Comes in<br><b>29.</b> Prelude 29<br><b>30.</b> Over the Hills and Far Away<br><b>31.</b> Country Gardens for Two Recorders