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Ronald Stevenson - PIANO MUSIC, VOLUME I: ‘A CELTIC ALBUM’: RONALD STEVENSON. A Wheen Tunes fae Bairns tae Spiel: Four Scottish Pieces for Piano; A Scottish Triptych; South Uist (Hebridean) Folk-song Suite; A Rosary of Variations on Seán Ó Riada's Irish Folk Mass; Scottish Folk Music Settings. Christopher Guild (pno). Toccata Classics TOCC 0272

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PIANO MUSIC, VOLUME I: ‘A CELTIC ALBUM’: RONALD STEVENSON. A Wheen Tunes fae Bairns tae Spiel: Four Scottish Pieces for Piano; A Scottish Triptych; South Uist (Hebridean) Folk-song Suite; A Rosary of Variations on Seán Ó Riada's Irish Folk Mass; Scottish Folk Music Settings. Christopher Guild (pno). Toccata Classics TOCC 0272

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 September 2015

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Tempo , Volume 69 , Issue 274 , October 2015 , pp. 77 - 78
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1 Published by Routledge and Kegan Paul 1955, republished by Birlinn, Edinburgh 2014.

2 Pibroch, or Ceòl Mòr (literally the ‘great music’) of the Highland bagpipes, utilises a densely sophisticated system of ornamentation to decorate a basic theme, or urlar, creating a complex series of variations.

3 In his preface to the score Le Festin d'Alkan, Stevenson writes that ‘[this piece] encapsulates my aesthetic conviction that free composition, free transcription and free variation (the forms of my three movements in order of performance) are all essentially the same thing’.