Twilight Years

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Donald Macleod follows Cyril Scott through the final decades of his life, including his turbulent relationship with the BBC. This was a period when Scott’s music was considered very much old-fashioned, and also a time when he was losing some of his oldest friends, including Percy Grainger. His last public appearance was at the age of 90 in 1969 at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on the South Bank in London. He died the following year. Victorian Waltz Michael Schäfer, piano Trio in B flat, for clarinet, cello and piano (Rondo capriccioso) Gould Piano Trio Symphony No 4 (Adagio) BBC Philharmonic Martyn Brabbins, conductor Piano Sonata No 3 (Molto tranquillo) Erik Parkin, piano String Quartet No 2 (excerpt) Archæus Quartet Piano Concerto No 2 Howard Shelley, piano BBC Philharmonic Martyn Brabbins, conductor Produced by Luke Whitlock