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Episode 34. Love, Loyalty and Balmoral

Sunday, 2nd September 2007, 5.05pm, Radio Scotland

19th century oil painting of Queen Victoria by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (C) scran.ac.uk John Purser uncovers Queen Victoria’s enthusiasm for Scottish music, both classical and traditional, in her patronage of fiddler and composer James Scott Skinner, Alexander Campbell Mackenzie’s sensual oratorio ‘The Rose of Sharon’, Hamish MacCunn’s opera ‘Diarmid’, which received a command performance at Balmoral. The programme features a world premiere recording of part of Act 1.

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Trad - Beloved Scotland
Patrick Molard
CD Piobaireachd
Gwerz Pladenn GWP 003

James Scott Skinner - Our Highland Queen
Hebbie Gray
CASSETTE J. Scott Skinner
Scotsoun SBC 504

Mackenzie - Rose of Sharon (exc)
Patricia MacMahon, soprano Alexander Morrison, tenor
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Alan Hazeldine
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Hamish MacCunn – Diarmid (Act 1, exc)
Susan Boyd, mezzo Andrew Staples, tenor
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Clark Rundell
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Episode 34. Love, Loyalty and Balmoral

Sunday, 2nd September 2007, 5.05pm, Radio Scotland

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