IDAGIO | Scott: Piano Concerto Nos. 1 & 2 - Early One Morning 5020926025128

Featuring

Bernard Herrmann
John Ogdon
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Cyril Scott

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Recording & Production

This recording features John Ogdon on piano, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and is conducted by Bernard Herrmann.

Composer Biography

Cyril Scott was an infant prodigy at the piano and studied composition with Ivan Knorr at the Frankfurt Conservatory, where his fellow students included Percy Grainger, Roger Quilter, Norman O'Neill, and Balfour Gardiner, known as 'the Frankfurt Group.'

Compositional Technique

Cyril Scott's First Piano Concerto uses a chamber-like orchestra and features "cool jadelike sonorities" and "pearly crystalline piano figurations" to create an "oriental-neo-classical hybrid aroma."

Composer Biography

Cyril Scott was a prolific composer, with an output that included three operas, ballets, large orchestral works, choral pieces, concerti, major chamber works, and numerous songs and piano pieces.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Cyril Scott's musical inspiration was "wholly musical," despite his deep involvement in philosophy, Indian Yoga, and the Theosophical Society, and his extensive writings on occultism.

Composer Biography

Cyril Scott, born in 1879, was initially hailed as a progressive British composer and achieved international recognition, but his reputation declined significantly in the latter part of his life.

Critical Reception

Despite his decline in popularity, Cyril Scott was revered by his colleagues, with Claude Debussy calling him "one of the rarest artists of the present generation" and George Bernard Shaw calling him "the only British composer in whom I can detect a real style."