The Red Red Rose - Songs and tunes from 18th century Scotland

ID: DCD34014 (EAN: 801918340147)  | 1 CD | DDD - 24 b
Publi: 2004

LABEL:

DELPHIAN RECORDS

Subcollection:

Voices

Interprètes:

LAWSON, Mhairi (soprano) | Mac DOUGALL, Jamie (tenor) | Mc GUINNESS, David (harpsichord)

Orchestre

Concerto Caledonia

Chef d'orchestre:

Mc GUINNESS, David

Pour plus amples dtails:

Concerto Caledonia bring their exuberant flair for early Scottish music to love songs from the time of Robert Burns, and baroque/Cape Breton virtuoso David Greenberg brings along some wild fiddling from the Golden Age of the Scots violin. The original version of Robert Burns's most famous song The Red Red Rose appears here in its first ever recording.


Mhairi Lawson (soprano), Jamie MacDougall (tenor) directed by David McGuinness, harpsichord, Concerto Caledonia - Scotland's early music group


Track listing

1 The Slaves Lament
Robert Burns & Stephen Clarke
2 The Seal-Fisher's Song; Struagh nach'eil bodaich; A highland reel; Miss Murray's Reel
from The Caledonian Muse
3 Cauld Kail in Aberdeen
Pietro Urbani
4 Chiling o guiry
Burk Thumoth
5 The Broom of Cowdenknows
Robert Bremner
6 The Broom of Cowdenknows; Bonny Christy
Francesco Geminiani
7 The Red Red Rose
Pietro Urbani
8 Now westling winds
Pietro Urbani
9 Old Sir Symon the King
Robert Bremner
10 The Mutual Kiss
James Oswald
11 Reading ends in Melancholy (The Second Song)
John Abell
12 Gavott
Robert Mackintosh
13 Auld Robin Gray
Robert Bremner
14-16 Miss Carnegie's Minuet
Air - andante
Air - allegro
Robert Mackintosh
17-19 Air - allegro
Miss Burnett of Monboddo's Reel
Mrs Richard Walpole's Reel
Robert Mackintosh
20 John Hay's Bonny Lassie
Adam Craig
21 Ae fond kiss Listen
Robert Burns & Stephen Clarke

"Not your average collection of fiddle tunes then, and all the better for it ... what a surprising treat it is too!"
- BBC Music

"The listener is in for a very special treat. You just might freak out when you hear this."
- WholeNote, Toronto