Ronald Stevenson
EIGHT SONGS OF FRANCIS GEORGE SCOTT
transcribed for piano
As recorded by Murray McLachlan on Olympia CD these wonderful transcriptions are available in print for the first time. Suitable for advanced pianists!
1. Since all thy vows, false maid, are blown to air
Transcribed on returning home from a 3 months’ Australian concert tour, and finding a gift awaiting me: F. G. Scott’s copy of Busoni’s Von der Einheit der Musik, very kindly presented by the composer’s son George: for me a symbolic gift of a communion of minds. R.S.
2.Wha is that at my bower-door?
3.O were my love you lilac fair
4.Wee Willie Gray
5.Milkwort and bog-cotton
6.Crowdieknowe
Twenty-six years of devotion to a masterpiece of Mephistophelian balladry, worthy of Busoni’s Doktor Faust and linking the eldritch Scottish Borders with the European Faust legend. R.S. July 1989.
7.Ay waukin, O
Ay waukin, O = Ever waking, O - insomnia from love.
8.There’s news, lasses, news
Duration 25 minutes
1. Since all thy vows, false maid, are blown to air
Transcribed on returning home from a 3 months’ Australian concert tour, and finding a gift awaiting me: F. G. Scott’s copy of Busoni’s Von der Einheit der Musik, very kindly presented by the composer’s son George: for me a symbolic gift of a communion of minds. R.S.
2.Wha is that at my bower-door?
3.O were my love you lilac fair
4.Wee Willie Gray
5.Milkwort and bog-cotton
6.Crowdieknowe
Twenty-six years of devotion to a masterpiece of Mephistophelian balladry, worthy of Busoni’s Doktor Faust and linking the eldritch Scottish Borders with the European Faust legend. R.S. July 1989.
7.Ay waukin, O
Ay waukin, O = Ever waking, O - insomnia from love.
8.There’s news, lasses, news
Duration 25 minutes
