Episode 51
Sunday, 30th December 2007, 5.05pm, Radio Scotland
John Purser picks a selection of favourite moments from his year-long exploration of the history of Scottish music from the Stone Age to the present day. John's guest is Kevin Earnshaw and the show was recorded at Court Cave at East Wemyss.
Episode Playlist
- [improvisation]
John Purser, Bronze Age horns
BBC recording - Anon (Robert ap Huw MS) - Gosteg Dafydd Athro
William Taylor
CD Two Worlds of the Welsh Harp
Dorian DOR 90260 Track 1 - Mungo and Merlin, adapted from the translation by W & J MacQueen “Vita Merlini Silvestris” in: Scottish Studies 29, 1989
read by Huw Williams - Cecil Gray- The Queen of Sheba’s Aria from The Temptation of St Anthony
performers unknown
private recording - Patsy Seddon, Rick Bamford, Hamish Moore - Benedicam Dominum
Patsy Seddon, voice Rick Bamford, bells Hamish Moore, triple pipes
BBC recording - Choral Vespers from Iona Abbey, June 1997 - Trad - A Scots Tune
Rowallan Consort (Rob MacKillop and William Taylor)
CD Notes of Noy, Notes of Joy
Temple Records COMD 2058 Track 24 - Trad - Thrush song
Alyth McCormack
BBC recording - Trad - MacLeod’s Salute
Allan MacDonald
BBC recording - Mary MacLeod - Crònan an Taibh
Alyth McCormack
BBC recording - Allan MacDonald ’s an oidhche Ossianic laoidh
BBC recording - Anon (Estienne du Tertre 1557) - Branles d’Ecosse
The Baltimore Consort (Edwin George, bagpipe)
CD On The Banks of Helicon – Early Music of Scotland
Dorian DOR-90139 Track 21 - Robert Wedderburn: The Complaynt of Scotland
read by Alan Riach - Trad (Rowallan Lute MS) - Gypsies Lilt
Robert Phillips [MacKillop] (Rowallan Consort)
CD Notes of Noy, Notes of Joy
Temple Records COMD 2058 Track 22 - Prakriti Dutta demonstrates Rag Ashavaree
BBC recording - Erik Chisholm - Piano Concerto No. 2 ‘Hindustani’ excerpt from 1st Movement
Ronald Brautigam (piano) BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Clark Rundell
BBC recording - Trad - Leslies Lilt
Rob McKillop
BBC recording - Mackenzie - Pibroch Suite
Rachel Barton Pine, violin, Scottish Chamber Orchestra/ Alexander Platt
CD Scottish Fantasies for Violin and Orchestra
Cedille Records CDR 90000 083 CD2 Track 3 - Cecil Coles - Kitchener’s Army
Band of HM Royal Marines Scotland/Capt Tony Smallwood
private recording - Hume - Alas poore men
CD Tobias Hume Poeticall Musicke
Paul Hillier, Hespérion XX
Harmonia Mundi RD 77165 Track 14 - J.B. McEwen - Sonata in E minor
Geoffrey Tozer, piano
Chandos CHAN 9933 Track 2 - Trad - Maol Donn (canntaraichd)
Barnaby Brown
BBC recording - Trad - Maol Donn (urlar)
Barnaby Brown
BBC recording - Erik Chisholm - Piano Concerto No. 1 “Piobaireachd”, 1st movt. Molto Moderato
Murray Mclachlan, piano Kelvin Ensemble/Julian Clayton
CD Erik Chisholm
Dunelm Records DRD 0174 Track 1 - Trad - Babbity Bowster
Bonnie Rideout
BBC recording - Alexander Monro - The Power of Drinking
Jamie Macdougall, tenor
David Greenberg, violin Alison McGillivray, cello
Gordon Ferries, guitar David McGuinness, harpsichord
BBC recording - Ivor Cutler - Pass the ball Jim (for John Peel)
Ivor Cutler with Linda Hirst
LP Privilege
Rough Trade ROUGH59 Side 2 Track 15 - Roy Williamson arr. David Dorward – Eine Schottische Blume
David McGuinness, piano
BBC recording - Martyn Bennett - Chanter
Martyn Bennett
CD Grit
Real World Records CDRW114 Track 3 - Anon - Inverness Fragments Recessional
Musick Fyne/James Ross
CASSETTE A Scottish Mass of 1546
CMF 004 Side 2 Track 8 - Trad - Sir Patrick Spens
Duncan Williamson
private recording - Anon - Huish huish
Children of Broadford Primary School Gaelic Unit
private recording - Ronald Center - Children at Play
Murray McLachlan, piano
CD Piano Music from Scotland: Scott, Center, Stevenson
Olympia OCD 264 Track 19 - Anon - Down in the Meadow
children in Hilltown, Dundee recorded by William Montgomerie 1952
CD Scottish Tradition 22 Chokit on a Tattie: Children’s Songs and Rhymes
Greentrax CDTRAX 9022 Track 9 - Trad - Prince Charlie’s Farewell to Scotland
Bonnie Rideout
CD Celtic Circles
Maggie’s Music MM306CD Track 13 - Trad. Shetland - Da Day Dawn
Chris Stout, fiddle
BBC recording
