Harry Croft-Jackson
HROSSEY for piano
Bardic Edition BDE129
Diversions on a theme for piano solo.
‘HROSSEY’ is the Norse name for the mainland of Orkney; and the diversion titles are taken from the old and picturesque nicknames which designate each parish and island.
‘FIRTH OYSTERS’ is an impression of a freshening wind and sea on the wide shores of Firth Bay.
‘SHAPANSAY SHEEP’ is a sketch of the pastoral island of Shapansay; to the west the sea is scarred with shoals and skerries, and beyond, across the open water, rises the long blue ridge of Eday.
‘EDAY SCARFS’ (scarf is an Orkney name for the cormorant) is a brief study of the island besieged by mist and cloud.
‘KIRKWALL STARLINGS’ is a miniature of the birds mounting and soaring over the great twelfth-century Cathedral of Orkney’s capital and the grey gables houses below.
‘HOY HAWKS’ depicts a sunny windless day, and a lazy sea lifting against the huge cliffs of Hoy.
‘HROSSEY’ is the Norse name for the mainland of Orkney; and the diversion titles are taken from the old and picturesque nicknames which designate each parish and island.
‘FIRTH OYSTERS’ is an impression of a freshening wind and sea on the wide shores of Firth Bay.
‘SHAPANSAY SHEEP’ is a sketch of the pastoral island of Shapansay; to the west the sea is scarred with shoals and skerries, and beyond, across the open water, rises the long blue ridge of Eday.
‘EDAY SCARFS’ (scarf is an Orkney name for the cormorant) is a brief study of the island besieged by mist and cloud.
‘KIRKWALL STARLINGS’ is a miniature of the birds mounting and soaring over the great twelfth-century Cathedral of Orkney’s capital and the grey gables houses below.
‘HOY HAWKS’ depicts a sunny windless day, and a lazy sea lifting against the huge cliffs of Hoy.
