Scottish Airs, Op. 34

• Sarasate’s Airs éccosaises op.34 was published (in its original violin & piano version) in Berlin in 1892.¹
• Sarasate loved Scottish music. He wrote this to Scottish composer Alexander Mackenzie, regarding how he intended to play Mackenzie’s Pibroch Suite:

“I will endeavor on this occasion to show myself as a pure-blooded Scot—minus the costume—and to prove that the national music of your country is one of the most beautiful and poetic that exists in the world: you know how fanatic I am about it.”

Sarasate²

1. “Spanish Dances, Op.23 (Sarasate, Pablo de),” IMSLP, accessed January 21, 2020, https://imslp.org/wiki/Spanish_Dances%2C_Op.23_(Sarasate%2C_Pablo_de). 
2. Joshua S. Walden, Sounding Authentic: The Rural Miniature and Musical Modernism(New York: Oxford University Press, 2014), 98.