Episode 38: Sur La Plage
Sunday, 30th September 2007, 5.05pm, Radio Scotland
John Purser’s seaside musical odyssey takes in the shores of Rhum, the Solway Firth and the Bay of Biscay, as he follows Scottish composers and songwriters to the beach in the run-up to the first world war.
Episode Playlist
- Anon - French Waltzes: Rose Bleue, Amoureuse
CD Unique Sounds of the Orchestrion from Kinloch Castle Isle of Rum
recorded by Bill Cousins & Craig MacPherson
[no cat. no.] - Trad - Tha do Rìoghachd làn Do ghlòir
Miss Murdina MacDonald
CD Music from the Western Isles (Scottish Tradition 2)
Greentrax CDTRAX 9002 - arr. Marjory Kennedy-Fraser: Land of Heart’s Desire
Lisa Milne, soprano, Sioned Williams, harp
CD Land of Heart’s Desire: Songs of the Hebrides
Hyperion CDA66988 - JB McEwen: String Quartet no. 6 ‘Biscay’: II. Les Dunes
Chilingirian Quartet
CD McEwen String Quartets Volume 2
CHANDOS CHAN 10084 - JB McEwen: String Quartet no. 6 ‘Biscay’: III. La Racleuse. Vivace – Allegretto leggiero
Chilingirian Quartet
CD McEwen String Quartets Volume 2
CHANDOS CHAN 10084 - Erik Satie – Descriptions automatiques: I. Sur un vaisseau. Assez lent
Philippe Entremont, piano
CD Satie Piano Works
Sony SBK 48 283 - McEwen - Vignettes from La Côte d’Argent: La Rosière
Geoffrey Tozer, piano
CD McEwen Piano Works
Chandos CHAN 9933 - McEwen – A Solway Symphony II. Moonlight. Molto tranquillo
The London Philharmonic/Alasdair Mitchell
CD McEwen Solway Symphony
Chandos CHAN 9345 - Harry Lauder - We Parted on the Shore
Sir Harry Lauder
first part from
LP The Very Best of Harry Lauder
World Records SH199 (original recording 30/9/1909) Side 2 Track 2
second part from
CD Scotland’s Stars on 78
Lismor Preservation Series LCOM 5232
