Christopher Guild

Francis George Scott: Complete Music for Solo Piano Christopher Guild

Among the few who know his music, Francis George Scott (1880-1958), a son of the Scottish Borders and a leading figure in the 'Scottish cultural Renaisssance' of

the 1920s, is admired for having written some of the best art-songs by any British composer. In this first recording of any of his piano music, a handful of lyrical early pieces contrast with the 58 Bartókian miniatures that constitute Scott's Intuitions - brief but atmospheric distillations of Scottish song, dance and landscape - and a set of virtuoso transcriptions of eight Scott songs by Ronald Stevenson (1928- 2015), the major Scottish pianist-composer of the past century