Episode 7. Scots in Europe - Drunk and Sober
Sunday, 18th February 2007, 5.05pm, Radio Scotland
Even in medieval Paris, Scots had a reputation for hard drinking. John Purser surveys the musical evidence for and against, with songs of sobriety and fertility from Orkney, Spanish gypsies performing a dance of death at a Scots wedding, and the storyteller and singer Duncan Williamson singing the ballad of Sir Patrick Spens.
Episode Playlist
- Trad. Irish c.1150-1200 - Cormacus scripsit
Sine Nomine Ensemble for Medieval music
CD A Golden Treasury of Medieval Music (Amon Ra) - Trad. (Wolfenbüttel 2 1203) - Hare, hare, hye/Balaam
Gaïta
CD O Dulcis Scotia – Music in medieval Scotland (Gaïta) - Trad. (Wolfenbüttel 2 1203) –Hare, hare, hye/Balaam! Goudalier/ Balaam
Clemencic Consort/René Clemencic
CD Motetus – Music at the time of Notre-Dame in Paris (Stradivarius) - Trad. - Hymn to St Magnus
James Ross & William Taylor
CD Out of the Stones (Orkney Museums & Heritage) - Trad. - Hymn to St Magnus
James Ross
CD Out of the Stones (Orkney Museums & Heritage) - Trad. 13c – Orkney Wedding Song ‘Et te lux oritur’
Paul Rendall, tenor with Rob MacKillop, lute and William Taylor, clarsach
CD Graysteil (Dorian) - Trad. arr. Brown, Taylor, MacLeod - Ad Mortem Festinamus
Barnaby Brown, William Taylor & Alistair MacLeod
CD Out of the Stones (Orkney Museums & Heritage) - Trad. - Sir Patrick Spens
Duncan Williamson
Private recording (John Purser's collection) - Trad. arr. Renaud – Marche des Soldats de Robert Bruce
Musique de l’Air de Paris
CD Marches et Sonneries de l’Armée Française (Corélia)
