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Edgar Barratt: In the Highlands

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Channel: PSearPianist · 2015 · Music

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00:00 The Island Cave
02:56 Early Morning.
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Edgar Barratt (1877-1928) was a once-famous composer of Scottish-themed music (although born in Lincoln, England, he died in Glasgow). He was apparently piano accompanist to the celebrated soprano Dame Emma Albani (1847-1930) at the end of her career in the early years of the last century. You can hear Albani sing in a 1907 recording on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smvEYKrZLfw - but I cannot tell if Barratt is her accompanist. For a picture of Barratt himself, see https://www.schubertiademusic.com/details/multiple_catalogs:yes/desc:Barratt,+Edgar.+%281877+-+1928%29. He had a great hit in 1917 with another Highland-themed piece: Coronach, and these two pieces from 1923 are written in similar style.  I am not sure exactly what Barratt scenario had in mind for the second piece, but the repeated chords at the beginning and end of the piece suggest to me bells on maritime buoys rung by an ocean swell.

My thumbnail shows a detail from my August 2016 photo of Urquhart Castle from Loch Ness, Scotland.
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