Moonstruck - Songs of FG Scott
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Label: Signum
Cat No: SIGCD096
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 2nd April 2007
Contents
Artists
Lisa Milne (soprano)Roderick Williams (baritone)
Iain Burnside (piano)
Artists
Lisa Milne (soprano)Roderick Williams (baritone)
Iain Burnside (piano)
About
- Milkwort and Bog-cotton (Hugh MacDiarmid)
- Crowdieknowe (Hugh MacDiarmid)
- Moonstruck (Hugh MacDiarmid)
- The Eemis Stane (Hugh MacDiarmid)
- The Sauchs in the Reuch (Hugh MacDiarmid)
- Heuch Hauch (Hugh MacDiarmid)
- Ay waukin O (Burns)
- Amang the trees (Burns)
- The Discreet Hint (Burns)
- Florine (Thomas Campbell)
- Je descendis dans mon jardin (Amy Sylvel)
- Lourd on my hert (Hugh MacDiarmid)
- The Watergaw (Hugh MacDiarmid)
- Country Life (Hugh MacDiarmid)
- Wheesht, wheesht (Hugh MacDiarmid)
- O, wha my babie-clouts will buy? (Burns)
- My wife's a wanton wee thing (Burns)
- The Innumerable Christ (Hugh MacDiarmid)
- I wha aince in Heaven's Heicht (Hugh MacDiarmid)
- An Apprentice Angel (Hugh MacDiarmid)
- Hungry Waters (Hugh MacDiarmid)
- The Deil o' Bogie (German, tr Gray)
- To a Lady (William Dunbar)
- Cupid and Venus (Mark Alexander Boyd)
- The Old Fisherman (George Campbell Hay)
- Im Tiroler Wirtshaus (Georg Britting)
- In Time of Tumult (Soutar)
- The Man in the Moon (Hugh MacDiarmid)
- First Love (Hugh MacDiarmid)
- Empty Vessel (Hugh MacDiarmid)
- The Wren's Nest (Burns)
- Love of Alba (Maurice Lindsay)
- The Wee Man (Willa Muir)
MacDiarmid; the vital difference is that Finzi was not Hardy's English teacher.
The settings Scott made of MacDiarmid poems in the 1920s and early 1930s are the heart of his work. Their poetic range is extraordinary: the condensed madness in Moonstruck, the tenderness of Milkwort and Bog-cotton; self-mocking, grumpy Scottish agitprop in Lourd on my hert, heart-wrenching simplicity in Empty Vessel. It is in these MacDiarmid settings that Scott is at his most radical. Such harmonic daring, from a contemporary of Roger Quilter! A contemporary, but by no means a compatriot. Nothing in these MacDiarmid songs, musical or verbal, links them to musical life south of Hadrian's Wall. Scott's points of reference are European: a nod to Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire in Moonstruck, a wink to Bartok in Country Life, with all its farmyard high jinks.
Elsewhere, resonances of a French sound world appear. How tantalising, that Scott was offered a period of study in Paris; how sad that the hard choices of family life should have held him back. While Scott's musical vocabulary for Burns is more conventional, he remains true to his poet. Never is there a whiff of sentimentality, never a glimpse of the shortbread tin. At a time when Scotland is drawing new strength from its place within Europe, let us celebrate this most European of Scottish composers.
- Iain Burnside
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