Episode 10. The Musician's Gallery
Sunday, 11th March 2007, 5.05pm, Radio Scotland
John Purser takes us to Doune Castle in the late 15th century, where Queen Margaret and her husband James III are surrounded by music. We hear a harp with gold and silver strings, a team of ploughmen tendering for a contract in song, the grisly epic of Graysteel, and an old man’s fireside conversation with a wise old owl.
Episode Playlist
- Trad. - Lament for the Harp
Ann Heymann
CD Queen of Harps (Temple) - Anon. - The Pleugh Sang
The Hilliard Ensemble: Paul Elliot, Paul Hillier, Philip Pickett
CD Popular Music from the time of Henry VIII (Saga Classics) - Anon. - Graysteil
Andy Hunter, voice Rob MacKillop, lute WilliamTaylor, clarsach
CD Graysteil (Dorian) - Trad. - Medley: Gray Steel / Gallua Tom
Coronach
CD Whip My Towdie (Coronach) - Trad. - Medley: Ladie Ann Gordon’s Lilt / Canaries / The Scottish Huntsupe
Coronach
CD A Scots Tune (Coronach) - Trad. - medieval Irish - Virgo Sancta Brigida
Ann Heymann, harp Julie Elhard, vielle Charlie Heymann, percussion
CD Cruit go nÓr (Ann Heymann) - Trad. - Oran na Chomhachaig
Allan MacDonald
BBC recording
