Czerny - Romantic Fantasies on Sir Walter Scott's novels

[Sharkkb8]

Naxos will release a recording of piano duets based on Sir Walter Scott's Waverley novels; the back cover states "World Premiere Recordings".  Amazon USA, Amazon UK and Presto show release date 10 Sept, with Amazon UK showing (apparently) download only.  Naxosdirect states "will not ship until Oct 9".

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8941258--czerny-romantic-piano-fantasies-on-sir-walters-scotts-novels

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Czerny-Romantic-Fantasies-Walter-Scotts/dp/B09C16VM8C/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=czerny+romantic+fantasies+scott&qid=1629584622&s=music&sr=1-1

https://smile.amazon.com/Romantic-Piano-Fantasies-Pei-I-Wang/dp/B099C5NJBZ/ref=sr_1_119?dchild=1&qid=1629584568&refinements=p_n_date%3A1249114011&rnid=1249111011&s=music&sr=1-119

https://naxosdirect.co.uk/items/carl-czerny-romantic-piano-fantasies-on-sir-walter-scotts-novels-565928

Naxos:   "Carl Czerny's instructional exercises may be his lasting legacy but there remain numerous largely forgotten pieces that reveal important elements of his compositional range. The four Romantic Fantasies named after Sir Walter Scott's famous Waverley novels are piano duets of epic breadth. In them Czerny ingeniously develops popular Scottish melodies, including the use of the 'Scotch snap', to generate a vivid programmatic quality that explores numerous genres. Scherzos, fugal passages, chorales and marches are all featured, and raise the music – full of beauty, virtuosity and unpredictability – to orchestral proportions."

[Sharkkb8]

Will also be available as an Apple Music download, $8.

https://music.apple.com/us/album/czerny-romantic-piano-fantasies-on-sir-walter-scotts/1580091513

[Mark Thomas]

These pieces are on an epic scale, and I find lots to enjoy in Czerny's restless music, so this is a release I am greatly looking forward to.

[semloh]

Czerny and Sir Walter Scott - an odd meeting of minds but one I too will look forward to.

[eschiss1]

Insofar as such a connection between art, music, literature, ... is the thing that distinguishes the Romantic movement, not -that- odd.

[Gareth Vaughan]

No, not odd at all. Walter Scott was widely read outside the UK and a major influence on artists and musicians in the 19th century.

[semloh]

'Odd' was the wrong word - 'fascinating' might have been more accurate. I was only thinking how marvellous it is that the arts can transcend national boundaries and that an Austrian composer can find inspiration in the works of a profoundly Scottish author. Of course, Scott's influence was international, and there was a fascination with all things Scottish among European composers during the 19thC (Beethoven, Donizetti, etc.). Wikipedia says that some ninety operas based to a greater or lesser extent on Scott's poems and novels have been traced. So, Czerny's usage is not surprising but it's certainly intriguing.