Episode 50: The Global Village
Sunday, 23rd December 2007, 5.05pm, Radio Scotland
John Purser rounds off his history of Scottish music looking at our interaction with the world at large, including Martyn Bennett’s "Tongues of Kali", Bill Drummond on the power of the pipe band, Hamish Henderson’s "Freedom Come-All-Ye", Judith Weir’s exploration of Chinese history, bronze age side-blown horns as they survived in Uganda and finishing with some uniquely Scottish contributions to world music, in a piano concerto, a waulking song, and a walk across the rooftops.
Episode Playlist
- Martyn Bennett - Tongues of Kali
Martyn Bennett
CD Bothy Culture
Rykodisc RCD 10381 Track 1 - Trad. arr Small & R Browne - 4/4 Marches: Ye Jacobites By Name; The 42nd; The Roses o’ Prince Charlie
The Pipes and Drums of the 1st Battalion The Black Watch
CD The Ladies from Hell
Greentrax CDTRAX 162 Track 1 - Hamish Henderson – The Freedom Come-All-Ye
Rod Paterson
CD A Clear Day’s Dawnin’
Greentrax CDTRAX 176 Track 8 - Judith Weir - The Consolations of Scholarship (Act 1, opening)
Linda Hirst, mezzo-soprano Lontano/Odaline de la Martinez
United CD88040 Tracks 1-2 - Trad: Rwakanembe
CD Royal Court Music from Uganda: Ganda, Nyoro, Ankole 1950 & 1952
(recorded by Hugh Tracey)
Sharp Wood/ International Library of African Music SWP008 Track 19 - Trad: Latha siubhal beinne dhomh
Miss Mary Morrison and Chorus
CD Scottish Tradition 3: Waulking Songs from Barra
Greentrax CDTRAX 9003 Track 3 - Erik Chisholm - Piano Concerto No. 1 (4th movement: Allegro con brio)
Murray McLachlan, Kelvin Ensemble/Julian Clayton
CD Erik Chisholm
Dunelm Records DRD 0174 Track 4 - Buchanan/Bell: A Walk Across the Rooftops
The Blue Nile
CD A Walk Across the Rooftops
Linn LKHCD1 Track 1
