MacCunn, Hamish

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Ok, so most people will associate Hamish MacCunn with one solitary composition: The Land of the Mountain and the Flood. I've always had a soft spot for this work he composed when a student. There isn't much else available on record, though Hyperion issued excerpts from his opera Jeanie Deans, some 20 years ago.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I see it's still available:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/Classical-Music/MacCunn-Mountain-Flood-other-music/B000002ZWL/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1487159577&sr=1-1&keywords=hamish+mccunn

[antongould]

When Simon the Heffer was doing his first British Music series a few years back he played a piece other than TLOTMATF ... I rather enjoyed it .... Can't for the life of me remember what is was ....

[Pulcinella]

BBC MM CD Vol 24 No 4 includes
Land of the Mountain and the Flood [sic] (BBCSSO/Vänskä)
and
The Ship o' the Fiend (BBCSSO/Brabbins)
(together with lots of Butterworth).
Probably some unwanted copies around in charity shops; I couldn't track down any copies on Amazon.

Both are available on this Hyperion CD:

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/w/29306/Hamish-MacCunn-The-Ship-o%27-the-Fiend

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Shouldn't it be "MacCunn"?

Anyway, not very much on youTube other than the familiar (and thoroughly enjoyable) overture - but there is this a capella choral piece:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpynhMN2-BU

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Shouldn't it be "MacCunn"?

Ah, so it should.

[Richard Tarleton]

And Sutherland's Law is still available on DVD, too

I used to have the Alexander Gibson version on LP, a sort of UK concept album

[Stanfordian]

Ok, so most people will associate Hamish MacCunn with one solitary composition: The Land of the Mountain and the Flood. I've always had a soft spot for this work he composed when a student. There isn't much else available on record, though Hyperion issued excerpts from his opera Jeanie Deans, some 20 years ago.

MacCunn was a pupil of Sir Charles Villiers Stanford of course at the RCM! One of its first pupils I believe.

[EdgeleyRob]

When Simon the Heffer was doing his first British Music series a few years back he played a piece other than TLOTMATF ... I rather enjoyed it .... Can't for the life of me remember what is was ....

The Ship o'the Fiend Overture IIRC

[EdgeleyRob]

And Sutherland's Law is still available on DVD, too

I used to have the Alexander Gibson version on LP, a sort of UK concept album

Yes that's a rather nice cd.
I used to have a Halle encores LP that included the Mountain and Flood

[pastoralguy]

It's a piece I've played many times. Of course, in true orchestral player irreverence, it's known as 'Land of the fountain and the mud'. It's a lovely work to play although I believe the viola part is VERY hard!

[antongould]

The Ship o'the Fiend Overture IIRC

You do ER ......

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

It's a lovely work to play although I believe the viola part is VERY hard!

You mean it isn't just repeated quavers?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

You mean it isn't just repeated quavers?

"Quavers"??!!!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

"Quavers"??!!!