Nino Gvetadze: Many years ago, when I studied at the Tbilisi Conservatory in Georgia, I had a privilege to be a student of a prominent Georgian composer, pianist and pedagogue, Nodar Gabunia. He was a very special, I would say exceptionally gifted person in many different ways. Every year he would present his students in a special concert, that always had a very interesting and intriguing theme. On one of these evenings, this time under the name “ Debussy and his contemporaries”, he entrusted me to play Lotus Land by Cyril Scott, the piece that took me under its spell from the very first bars.

This album contains a collection of pieces, that will give the listener a glimpse to the atmospheric, rich, beautiful, tender and meditative world of piano music of Cyril Scott. Cyrill Scott was a key figure before World War I in helping Britain to break away from musical conservatism and the prevailing Germanic influences. The album starts with a berceuse and leads us through a night filled with colorful Visions, a night followed by the Morning Song and the wise and dreamy epilogue Over the Prairie. There is so much more to discover about this enigmatic composer: an ocean of works that he left behind. I hope this CD will awake the interest and will trigger the listeners and musicians to look for more.

• 1. Berceuse (04:22)
• 2. Poemsi. Poppies (02:30)
• 3. Poemsii. the Garden of Soul - Sympathy (03:01)
• 4. Poemsiii. Bells (02:21)
• 5. Poemsiv. the Twilight of the Year (03:31)
• 6. Poemsv. Paradise - Birds (03:43)
• 7. Lotus Land, Op.47 No.1 (05:00)
• 8. Water-Wagtail, Op.71 No.3 (02:37)
• 9. Sphinx, Op.63 (04:44)
• 10. Intermezzo Op. 67, No. 3 (02:36)
• 11. Summerland Op. 54i. Playtime (01:06)
• 12. Summerland Op. 54ii. a Song From the East (01:32)
• 13. Summerland Op. 54iii. Evening Idyll (02:44)
• 14. Summerland Op. 54iv. Fairy Folk (01:38)
• 15. 2 Pierrot Pieces, Op.35i. Pierrot Triste (Lento) (02:55)
• 16. 2 Pierrot Pieces, Op.35ii. Pierrot Gai (Allegro Molto Sc
• 17. Columbine, Op.47 No.2 (04:27)
• 18. 3 Little Waltzes, Op.58i. Allegro Poco Scherzando (01:25
• 19. 3 Little Waltzes, Op.58ii. Andante Languido (02:25)
• 20. 3 Little Waltzes, Op.58iii. Allegretto Gracioso (01:32)
• 21. Morning Song From the Jungle Book (02:30)
• 22. Over the Prairie (03:22)