Episode 32. Hunting Whale and Seal
Sunday, 19th August 2007, 5.05pm, Radio Scotland
John Purser takes to the sea this week with music for fiddle, jaws harp and songs of bravery and tragedy from the old whaling ships, a tune for attracting seals, and the mysterious song of the selkies themselves.
Episode Playlist
- Trad - Farewell tae Tarwathie
Heritage
LP When the Dancin’ It’s A’ Done
No Bad Records NBLP 2 - Trad - Da Mirrie Boys o’ Greenland
Chris Stout, fiddle
BBC recording - Trad – The Greenland Whale
Isla St Clair
CD Tatties & Herrin’: The Sea
Greentrax CDTRAX 146 - Trad - Heave Away My Johnny
Louis Killen and chorus
LP Farewell Nancy: Sea Songs and Shanties
Topic 12T110 No - Trad (1820s): The Bonny Ship The Diamond
A.L.Lloyd, voice Alf Edwards, concertina
Martin Carthy, mandolin Dave Swarbrick, violin
LP Leviathan! Ballads and Songs of the Whaling Trade
Topic 12T174 - John Park - Village Bells
Jamie MacDougall, tenor David McGuinness, piano
BBC recording
attrib. Catherine Fraser - Polonaise I
Roger Williams, Peter Inness, piano duet
LP Music of Castle Fraser,
Alpha ACA 509 - Trad - Auld Swarra
Tom Anderson
CD Scottish Tradition 4 Shetland Fiddle Music
Greentrax CDTRAX 9004 - W J Kirkpatrick/Priscilla J Owens - Will Your Anchor Hold
Isla St Clair
CD Tatties & Herrin’: The Sea
Greentrax CDTRAX 146 - Trad - A Fisherman’s Song for Attracting Seals
Ossian
CD Seal Song
Iona IRCD 002 - Trad - Ion-da, Ion-do
Darren MacLean
BBC recording - Trad - Selkie’s Song
Bob Blair
LP Poetry and Song
Argo DA94
