Episode 18. Sound Hoarse, Sad Lute.
Sunday, 13th May 2007, 5.05pm, Radio Scotland
John Purser is joined by the lutenist Rob MacKillop to explore the richness of Scottish lute music in the century between the Union of the Crowns and the Act of Union, against a backdrop of the poetry of William Drummond of Hawthornden.
Episode Playlist
- Anon (Straloch MS) - Port Jean Linsay
Rob MacKillop
CD Flowers of the Forest
Greentrax CDTRAX155 - Anon (Margaret Ker MS) - Come my children dere
Baltimore Consort
CD On The Banks of Helicon (Early Music of Scotland)
Dorian DOR-90139 - Anon (Rowallan Lute Book) - A Scotts Tune; Come [= Corne] Yairds
Jakob Lindberg
CD Lute Music from Scotland and France
BIS CD 201 - Anon (Straloch & Skene MSS, arr. Robert Phillips, William Taylor) - I long for thy virginitie
(Kinmor Music)
The Rowallan Consort
CD Notes of Noy, Notes of Joy
Temple COMD 2058 - Anon - Lilt-Milne
Rob McKillop
CD Flowers of the Forest
Greentrax CDTRAX 155 - Robert Ramsey (ed. Timothy Symonds) - What tears Dear Prince
Magnificat Choir and Players/Philip Cave
ASV Gaudeamus CDGAU 138 - Anon (ed. James Ross) – Medley: Canaries (Straloch MS); Draw near me and love me (Jane Pickering MS); Jennet drinks no water (Skene MS); Blue Ribbon (Margaret Wemyss MS)
Coronach
CD A Scots Tune
CMF 007 - Anon (Straloch MS) – Wo betyd thy wearie bodie
Ronn McFarlane
CD The Scottish Lute
Dorian DOR 90129 Track 25
