An Overview
Sunday, 31st December 2006, 5.05pm, Radio Scotland
Welcome to Scotland's Music! In this Overview of the series, John Purser sets the scene for his 50-part adventure uncovering the history of the music of Scotland, from the Stone Age to the present day.
Episode Playlist
- Maes Howe
Simon O'Dwyer, bronze age horn (dord iseal)
AN Other, crotal (John Purser's collection/Sabhal Mòr Ostaig) - Justified & Ancient (Stand by the JAMS)
The KLF
CD Justified & Ancient - Smoo Cave Carnyx
John Kenny
CD The Kilmartin Sessions (Kilmartin House Trust) - Calgacus
read by Tam Dean Burn - A Scots Tune
Rowallan Consort
CD Notes of Noy, Notes of Joy - James I
read by Alan Riach - Dh'fhag a ludag mi
Allan MacDonald, voice and smallpipes
BBC recording - Ronald Center, Children at Play
Murray McLachlan, piano
CD Piano Music from Scotland: Scott, Center, Stevenson - Down in the Meadow
children in Hilltown, Dundee recorded by William Montgomerie 1952
CD Scottish Tradition 22 Chokit on a Tattie: Children's Songs and Rhymes - There's Three True Good Fellows
Jamie McMenemy, Ian Lowthian, John McCusker, Marc Duff
CD Songs of Robert Burns Vol 5 - Pibroch Suite
Rachel Barton Pine, violin, Scottish Chamber Orchestra/ Alexander Platt
CD Scottish Fantasies for Violin and Orchestra - Song of the thrush
Alyth McCormack
BBC recording - Song of the Mavis (24 Preludes from the True Edge of the Great World)
Murray McLachlan, piano
CD Erik Chisholm Music for Piano Volume 2 - Kitchener's March
Band of HM Royal Marines Scotland/Capt Tony Smallwood
specially recorded - Lights Out (Donald Blue)
Drums and Pipes of the regimental band of the Gordon Highlanders
CD Cock o' the North - Creation Symphony
BBC SSO/Martyn Brabbins - The Shadow of Light
Simon O'Dwyer & John Purser
CD The Kilmartin Sessions (Kilmartin House Trust)
