28/03/2015
Gary West focuses on the music of Iain dubh MacCrimmon from Skye, piper to MacLeod of Dunvegan, whose tunes are preserved in the Gesto Canntaireachd Collection of 1828.
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Artist: Iain Speirs
Title: Pipe Major Walter Cowan, The Duke of Roxburgh’s Farewell to the Blackmount Forest
BBC recording: February 2008
Artist: Euan MacCrimmon
Title: Inveraray Castle, Lady MacKenzie of Gairloch, The Smith of Chilliechassie, The Cockerel in the Creel
BBC recording: June 2012
Artist: James Duncan MacKenzie
Title: Bridge to Nowhere, Lisnagun Jig, The Seagull
CD: James Duncan MacKenzie
Label: own label JMMCD001
Artist: Simon Fraser University Pipe Band
Title: The Highland Wedding, Blair Drummond, John Morrison of Assynt House
CD: Affirmation
Label own label SFU011CD
Artist: Decker Forrest
Title: Druim Thalasgair (setting from the Gesto Canntaireachd, 1828)
Private recording
Artist: Dr Jack Taylor
Title: Cille Chrìosd (crunluath)
BBC recording: March 2015
Artist: Dr Jack Taylor
Title: Cogadh no Sìth (crunluath a-mach)
BBC recording: March 2015
Artist: Jack Lee
Title: Cogadh no Sìth (War or Peace)
BBC recording: Northern Meeting Clasp, 2011
Artist: Alastair Dunn
Title: The Pipers’ Controversy, The Grachal, Donella Beaton
BBC recording: November 2010
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- Sat 28 Mar 201521:05BBC Radio Scotland
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