Cyril Scott - Aubade "Morning Sun", Op. 77 (1905)

Cyril Meir Scott (27 September 1879 – 31 December 1970) was an English composer, writer, and poet. Aubade, Op. 77 "Morning Sun" (1905, rev. 1911) Dedication: To my friend Landon Ronald BBC Philharmonic conducted by 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 &it became steadily more varied and more refined in his later years. Indeed, it is his late works (written between 1950 and his death) that are the most individual, with their ever-shifting harmonic colours and wayward inflections of phrase and mood, capturing perfectly the way the mind shifts, backwards and forwards, between reminiscence, regrets, and self-assertion.