Cyril Scott ‒ Early One Morning

Cyril Scott (1879 - 1970), Early One Morning for piano and orchestra (1930 - 1931, rev. 1962) Performed by Howard Shelley (piano), BBC Philharmonic Orchestra cond. Martyn Brabbins Scott was essentially a late romantic composer, whose style was at the same time strongly influenced by impressionism. His harmony was notably exotic. If in his early works it was perhaps over-sweet (Alban Berg dismissed his music as ’mushy’), it became steadily more varied and more refined in his later years. Indeed it is his l