Episode 31. Gentle Divinity
Sunday, 12th August 2007, 5.05pm, Radio Scotland
John Purser introduces music from men of the kirk, including several world premiere recordings specially made for the programme.
Allan MacDonald sings a song by Gaelic poet Dugald Buchanan, who ministered to the bandits living on the edge of Rannoch Moor in the 18th century.
Jamie MacDougall and Susan Hamilton sing songs by poet and composer John Park from Greenock, who composed when he was a minister in St Andrews and there’s music from Scotland’s first professor of music John Thomson, a son of the manse from Sprouston near Kelso.
Episode Playlist
- Buchanan - An Claigeann
Allan MacDonald
BBC recording - John Thomson - Overture to ‘Hermann’
Camerata Scotland/William Conway
CD Camerata Scotland
NYOS 003 - John Thomson - Drei Lieder No 1
Patricia MacMahon, soprano Jack Keaney, piano
CD Scotland’s Music
Linn CKD - John Thomson - Overture to ‘Hermann’
Camerata Scotland/William Conway
CD Camerata Scotland
NYOS 003 - John Park – Sea Song
Susan Hamilton, soprano David McGuinness, piano
BBC recording - John Park - Village Bells
Jamie MacDougall, tenor David McGuinness, piano
BBC recording - John Park - Yes, Thou May’st Sigh
Susan Hamilton, soprano David McGuinness, piano
BBC recording - Handel - Hallelujah Chorus (Messiah)
Royal Choral Society, Royal Albert Hall Orchestra/Malcolm Sargent (1926)
CD A Collector’s Messiah
Koch 3-7703-2Y6X2
