Scoring
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Repertoire Note
Written in 1941 for the piano-duet team of Ethel Bartlett and Rae Robertson, the Scottish Ballad is a free fantasy based on a number of Scottish tunes, including ‘Dundee’, ‘Turn Ye to Me’ and ‘Flowers of the Forest’. A lamenting funeral march is followed by a flamboyant Highland fling, in which Britten parodies ‘Scottish’ music in a display piece of great wit and vitality.
