Christopher Guild – Ronald Stevenson: Piano Music, Vol. 4 (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

This fourth volume in Christopher Guild’s ongoing survey of the piano music of the pianist-composer Ronald Stevenson (1928–2015) – a major figure in the cultural life of twentieth- century Scotland – presents works inspired by the human voice, where Stevenson was concerned above all to make the piano sing, to allow it to express human feeling as naturally as possible. That concern can be heard both in his own pieces and his many transcriptions of music by other composers, which balance sophisticated craftsmanship and a refreshing emotional directness.

Tracklist:
01. Christopher Guild – Manru Suite (After Paderewski): I. Introduction & Gipsy March (04:22)
02. Christopher Guild – Manru Suite (After Paderewski): II. Gipsy Song (03:42)
03. Christopher Guild – Manru Suite (After Paderewski): III. Lullaby (02:55)
04. Christopher Guild – Manru Suite (After Paderewski): IV. Cracovienne (04:07)
05. Christopher Guild – Song Without Words (02:12)
06. Christopher Guild – 9 Haiku (Arr. for Solo Piano): No. 1, Dedication (01:06)
07. Christopher Guild – 9 Haiku (Arr. for Solo Piano): No. 2, The Fly (00:50)
08. Christopher Guild – 9 Haiku (Arr. for Solo Piano): No. 3, Gone Away (02:05)
09. Christopher Guild – 9 Haiku (Arr. for Solo Piano): No. 4, Nocturne (01:28)
10. Christopher Guild – 9 Haiku (Arr. for Solo Piano): No. 5, Master and Pupil (00:39)
11. Christopher Guild – 9 Haiku (Arr. for Solo Piano): No. 6, Spring (01:26)
12. Christopher Guild – 9 Haiku (Arr. for Solo Piano): Interlude. The Blossoming Cherry [Aubade] (02:12)
13. Christopher Guild – 9 Haiku (Arr. for Solo Piano): No. 7, Curfew (01:22)
14. Christopher Guild – 9 Haiku (Arr. for Solo Piano): No. 8, Hiroshima (00:43)
15. Christopher Guild – 9 Haiku (Arr. for Solo Piano): No. 9, Epilogue (01:57)
16. Christopher Guild – Romance (After Charpentier’s “Louise”) (03:09)
17. Christopher Guild – L’art nouveau du chant appliqué, Vol. 1: No. 1, Elëanore (After Coleridge-Taylor) (03:52)
18. Christopher Guild – L’art nouveau du chant appliqué, Vol. 1: No. 2, So We’ll Go No More A-Roving (After Maud Valérie White) (05:51)
19. Christopher Guild – L’art nouveau du chant appliqué, Vol. 1: No. 3, Plus blanche que la plus blanche hermine (After Meyerbeer) (05:41)
20. Christopher Guild – L’art nouveau du chant appliqué, Vol. 1: No. 4, In the Silent Night (After Rachmaninoff) (03:17)
21. Christopher Guild – L’art nouveau du chant appliqué, Vol. 1: No. 5, Go Not, Happy Day! (After Bridge) (02:00)
22. Christopher Guild – L’art nouveau du chant appliqué, Vol. 2: No. 1, Fly Home Little Heart (After Novello) (03:03)
23. Christopher Guild – L’art nouveau du chant appliqué, Vol. 2: No. 2, We’ll Gather Lilacs (After Novello) (04:22)
24. Christopher Guild – L’art nouveau du chant appliqué, Vol. 2: No. 3, Demand et réponse (After Coleridge-Taylor) (01:27)
25. Christopher Guild – L’art nouveau du chant appliqué, Vol. 2: No. 4, Will You Remember (After Romberg) (01:14)
26. Christopher Guild – L’art nouveau du chant appliqué, Vol. 3: No. 1, Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair (After Foster) (02:43)
27. Christopher Guild – L’art nouveau du chant appliqué, Vol. 3: No. 2, Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming (After Foster) (04:27)
28. Christopher Guild – L’art nouveau du chant appliqué, Vol. 3: No. 3, Beautiful Dreamer (After Foster) (02:48)