Anonymous, Scottish

For Ever Fortune: Scottish Music in The 18th Century / Robert Getchell, tenor

1 CD / Alpha Productions / 2012-05-08

Works: Anonymous, Scottish: Saw na ye my Peggie, song; Johnnie Cope / Laughlan's lilt; MacCrimmon's Lament; The Fyket / Miss Bisset Logieraits's reel / Was ye at the Bridal / The Cadgers of the Cannongate; ...
Performers: Getchell, Robert
Conductors: Lazarevitch, François
Ensemble: Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien

One of the most fascinating aspects of Scottish music in the 18th century is the extent to which traditional and classical music interacted. By the...continue...
Recording information: Chapelle de l'Hôpital Notre-Dame du Bon-Secours, Paris (05/2011).

Includes princess royal (o'carolan) / for ever fortune by various composers.

Includes the fl...continue...

The Jacobean Lutenists

1 CD / dB Productions / 2012-03-27

Works: Anonymous, Scottish: A Scots Tune (The Rowallan Lute Book); Daniel Bacheler: La jeune fillette, for lute (no 41 from Selected Works for Lute); En me revenant, for lute (no 43 from Selected Works for ...

Karl Nyhlin is one of Sweden's foremost lutenists. His debut CD was highly praised in Swedish and international press, and this follow up album features...continue...
Recording information: Kampementet, Stockholm (07/2011)....continue...

Music for the Queen of Scots

1 CD / Deux Elles / 2012-03-13

Works: Traditional: The Scotch Queen; Anonymous, Scottish: Prince Edward's Paven; Richt soir opprest; Woe worth the tyme (from Thomas Wode's Partbooks); Anonymous: Departe, Departe; Ane lesson upon the Firs...
Performers: Silvester, Corrina
Conductors:
Ensemble: The Flautadors

The Flautadors is an ensemble of recorder players who offer a concert of music that was composed or performed for Mary, Queen of Scots. The...continue...
Recording information: St. Andrew's Church, Toddington, Gloucestershire (08/2009)....continue...

Sae Fresh & Fair: Scottish Romantic Choral Songs with texts by Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, William Shakespeare et al. / Strathclyde University Chamber Choir

1 CD / Rel Records / 2012-01-10

Works: Scottish Traditional: Ye Banks and Braes O' Bonnie Doon, folk song; Sleeps the noon in the deep blue sea; Auld Lang Syne; Hamish MacCunn: There is a Garden; It was a Lass; O Where are Thou Dreaming; ...
Performers: Strathclyde University Chamber Choir
Conductors: Tavener, Alan
Ensemble: Strathclyde University Chamber Choir

A beautiful, heartfelt collection of texts by Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, William Shakespeare, and more....continue...
Recording information: Woodlands Hall, Glasgow....continue...

Love Is The Cause / Scottish Tunes for Viola Da Gamba & Baroque Guitar / Dunford & Mackillop

1 CD / Alpha Productions / 2011-08-09

Works: Scottish Traditional: The Lass of Peaty's Mill, folk song; Love Is the Cause of My Mourning, folk song; Mary Scott, Flower of Yarrow; The Last Time I Came O'er the Moor; Fygar Rub Her O'er With Straw...
Performers: Dunford, Jonathan

35 traditional Scottish tunes, including Auld Lang Syne, Coming Through the Rye, and many more

This repertoire finds its roots in 17th-century Scottish manuscripts. Rob...continue...
Recording information: Edinburgh (02/12/2009-02/15/2009)....continue...

A Meeting Place: Medieval & Renaissance Music for Lute & Ud

1 CD / Sono Luminus / 2011-05-31

Works: English Traditional: Greensleeves, folk song; Joan Ambrosio Dalza: Piva, for 2 lutes; Calata no 4 "a la spagnola", for lute; Anonymous: Estampie fragment; Lamento di Tristano et La Rotta; Nota; Belle...
Performers: Denhard, August

Münir Nurettin Beken and August Denhard explore the improvisatory richness of a performance tradition that their instruments may have shared in the Middle Ages and...continue...
Recording information: 06/2010....continue...

Carmina Celtica / World Premiere recordings of Medieval & Contemporary Spiritual Songs

1 CD / Linn Records / 2010-08-01

Works: Anonymous, Inchcolm Antiphoner: Salve splendor; Confessor Dei; James MacMillan: Os mutorum, for chorus; Ivan Moody: O quam mirabilis, for chorus; Anonymous, Scottish: Green Grow the Rashes O! (Balcar...
Performers: Taylor, William [Harp]
Conductors:
Ensemble: Canty

Classic FM Magazine
The voices are pure, beautifully tuned and finely balanced even at the tightest, most radiant dissonances... Taylor's various harps have an honest, rustic...continue...
Recording information: Greyfriars Church, Edinburgh, Scotland (2009-02-24_2009-02-26&2009-)....continue...

Stuart Age Music: Tunes from Troubled Times

1 CD / Griffin Records / 2010-06-08

Works: English Traditional: Work(s); When the King Enjoys His Own Again, folk song; Johney Cock Thy Beaver; The Witches (from Anne Cromwell's Virginal Book, 1638); I Serve a Worthy Lady, song; The Jolly Bar...
Performers: Banks, Jon [Harp]; Spring, Matthew; Stobart, Henry; Stowe, Sara
Conductors:
Ensemble: Sirinu

Music for Tudor Kings from the Time of Henry VII & Henry VIII

1 CD / Musical Concepts / 2008-01-08

Works: Robert Fayrfax: I Love, Loved, And Loved Wolde I Be; That Was My Woo; Most Clere of Colour for 3 voices; William Cornysh: Woefully arrayed; Hoyda, hoyda, jolly Rutterkin, for 3 voices; Ah Robyn, gent...
Performers: Elliot, Paul [Tenor Vocal]; Hillier, Paul; James, David; Nelson, Judith [Soprano Vocal]; Nieman, Paul; Nixon, Leigh; North, Nigel [Lute]; Pickett, Philip
Conductors:
Ensemble: New London Consort

These recordings were amongst the very first by one of the world's most successful vocal groups. The Hilliard Ensemble was formed in 1974 to perform...continue...

The Elfin Knight / Joel Frederiksen, et al

1 CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2007-09-11

Works: English Traditional: Whittingham Fair, folk song ("The Elfin Knight"); Greensleeves, folk song; Go from My Window, folk song; Fortune My Foe; Scarborough Fair; Anonymous, English: Walsingham; Lord Da...
Performers: Evans, Timothy Leigh; Frederiksen, Joel; Marincic, Domen; Schwannberger, Sven; Weigl, Helmut
Conductors: Frederiksen, Joel
Ensemble: Ensemble Phoenix Munich

A basso with exceptional timbre, Frederiksen has done his homework and is now able to revive a whole host of folk ballads that are at...continue...

The Water is Wide and other Lute Songs / Perrin, Parsons

2 CD / Meridian / 2007-07-10

Works: British Isles Traditional: The Water Is Wide, folk song; English Traditional: Scarborough Fair; Through Bushes and through Briars; Lillibulero, lute song; The Turtle Dove; The Three Ravens, folk song...
Performers: Parsons, David; Perrin, Nigel

Nigel Perrin sang with the legendary King's Singers from 1968 to 1980. He initially left the group to work for the Church Army in an...continue...

Gut, Wind and Wire / The Baltimore Consort

1 CD / Sono Luminus / 2006-07-05

Works: John Playford: Scotch Cap (The English Dancing Master, 1651); The English Dancing Master; Jon come kisse me now (Musick's Delight on the Cithren, 1666); Pierre Phalèse: Gaillarde d'escosse (pu...
Performers: George, Edwin; Simms, William
Conductors:
Ensemble: Baltimore Consort

Fascinated by the broad range of timbral possibilities, Renaissance musicians developed a wide variety of instrumental colors, ranging from the 'vocal imitation' of the bowed...continue...

Flower of Scotland

1 CD / HBDirect Import / 2006-06-13

Works: Roy Williamson: Flower of Scotland; Rob Barrick: 79th's Farewell to Gibralter; Scottish Traditional: Wi' a Hundred Pipers, folk song; Kenneth J. Alford: Holyrood, for orchestra/band; Denny Laine: Mul...
Performers: Blake, Corporal D.R.; Guards, Royal Scots Dragoon

Includes medley: edinburgh castle/the soldier's return by various composers.

Includes medley: four-fours: the roses of prince charlie/ki by various composers.

Includes medley: my home/th...continue...

This World's Globe - Celebrating Shakespeare

2 CD / Signum UK / 2006-05-04

Works: William Lyons: La Montagnura, for ensemble (after Gasparo Zannetti); Fanfare for ensemble (after Cesare Bendinelli); King Richard's Flourish, for ensemble (after Cesare Bendinelli); Torch Pavan (Pass...
Conductors:
Ensemble: Musicians of Shakespeare's Globe

The play's The Thing is a whistle-stop journey, a sample and guide to 'hearing at the Glob' - works and music combining to tell tales...continue...
Recording information: All Saints' Church, London; Duthy Hall, London; Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel, London; Shakespeare's Globe, London....continue...

Land of Heart's Desire

1 CD / Hyperion / 2005-12-13

Works: Anonymous, Scottish: Land of Heart's Desire; An Eriskay Love Lilt; Loch Broom Love Song; Loch Leven Love Lament; Caristiona; Kirsteen; A Thirteenth-Century Love Lilt; Benbecula Bridal Procession; The...
Performers: Milne, Lisa; Williams, Sioned

'A treasure house of gems . . . This is as fine a solo debut album as I have encountered all year and deserves a...continue...
The folksongs performed on this disc were collected, recorded and transcribed by Marjory Kennedy-Fraser. She published her collection "Songs of the Hebrides" between 1909 and 1927....continue...

Oikan ayns Bethlehem - Noëls / Hall, Bergeron, La Nef

1 CD / ATMA / 2005-11-01

Works: Christmas Traditional: Oikan ayns Bethlehem, carol (Isle of Man); Duan Nollaig, carol (Scottish); Taladh Chriosta, carol (Isle of Barra); Ballulalow (Ane Sang of the Birth of Christ), carol (Scottish...
Performers: Bergeron, Sylvain; Hall, Meredith
Conductors:
Ensemble: La Nef

Long before the coming of Christianity, the Winter Solstice was celebrated by the Celts with fire rituals symbolizing the coming of light and hope in...continue...

A Scottish Ladymass / Red Byrd

1 CD / Hyperion / 2005-05-10

Works: Anonymous, Scottish: Gaudeamus omnes, introit 2 part organum (11th fascicle of W1); Rex, virginum amator, kyrie 2 part organum (11th fascicle of W1); Gloria. Per precem, 2 part organum (11th fascicle...
Conductors:
Ensemble: Red Byrd; Yorvox

"The academic importance of Red Byrd's work is high, but it is the serene beauty of the singing that will attract most listeners." - ClassicsToday.com...continue...

Madame d'Amours - Cornysh, etc / London Musica Antiqua

1 CD / Signum UK / 2005-03-02

Works: Francisco de la Torre: La Spagna; William Cornysh: Whilles lyve or breth is in my brest; Blow thi horne hunter; Anonymous, English: My Lady Wynkfylds Rownde; My Lady Carey's Dompe (Royal, App. 58); M...
Performers: Bryan, John; Cassidy, Jennie; Harrison, Ian; Heringman, Jacob [Lute]; Thorby, Philip
Conductors:
Ensemble: Musica Antiqua of London

Scarborough Fayre - Traditional Tunes / Apollo's Fire

1 CD / Koch International / 2004-09-21

Works: Traditional: Work(s); American Traditional: St Claire's Defeat (Ohio); Work(s); Apollo's Fire: Far Away (after Peter Jung) / Cambleton Snows (after T.K. Kelly); Farewell & Adieu (after Farewell to th...
Performers: Simon, Sandra
Conductors: Sorrell, Jeannette
Ensemble: Apollo's Fire

Using period instruments and performance styles, Apollo's Fire takes audiences on a musical journey to the Old and New Worlds - A fairground of haunting...continue...
Includes work(s): cawdor fair, strathspey (mr campbell of b by various composers.

Includes work(s): the flowres of the forest (anonymous, ske by various composers....continue...

Sanctus - Music for Quiet Contemplation

1 CD / Gift Of Music / 2004-09-01

Works: Gregorian Chant: Facta est cum angelo; Puer natus est nobis, introit; Angelus ad pastores, antiphon (Mode 7); Alleluia. Dies sanctificatus; Sanctus; Agnus Dei; Quem vidistis pastores, responsory in m...
Performers: Banks, Jon [Harp]

Music for quiet contemplation Haunting and evocative words and music that bring us echoes from the world of the monks of Lindisfarne, the Saxon monastery...continue...

Music For My Lady

1 CD / Gift Of Music / 2003-02-01

Works: Scottish Traditional: O Lustie May; My lady binnis lilt (The Wemyss Lute Book); The Laydie Louthian's Lilte (Robert Edward's Book); The Last Time I Came O'er the Moor; Canaries; François Campion...
Performers: Banks, Jon [Harp]; Birt, Heather; McCoy, Stewart; Souter, Martin; Spring, Matthew; Stowe, Sara

Songs of love from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, performed with the gentle accompaniment of the lute. Violin solos and harpsichord and viol consort music...continue...

The Best of the Baltimore Consort

1 CD / Sono Luminus / 2003-01-24

Works: Thomas Morley: Joyne Hands, for consort of instruments (from "The First Booke of Consort Lessons"); Anonymous: Howell's Delight, for consort; The Old Maid of the Mill Dust; Scottish Traditional: In a...
Performers: Bass, Howard; Companions, Merry; George, Edwin; Simms, William; Wiggins, Webb
Conductors:
Ensemble: Baltimore Consort

Stylistic innovators, amazing music makers, historically informed, fun loving, occasionally bawdy, and always surprising, The Baltimore Consort continues to explore the relationship between 'folk' and...continue...

The Wandering Lutenist / Oleg Timofeyev

1 CD / Centaur / 1999-03-09

Works: Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger: Toccata for lute no 1; Galliarde for lute no 1 (from Book 1 of D'Intavolatura di Lauto); Corrente for lute no 6 (from Book 1 of D'Intavolatura di Lauto); Pietro Paolo ...
Performers: Timofeyev, Oleg

Yankee: Come Home! - Historic Organs of Newburyport, Mass

1 CD / Raven Records / 1990-01-01

Works: Edward Little White: Grand March for organ ("New Year 1842"); Variations on "Yankee Doodle" for organ; David P Ruhl: Variations on "Ein Schifflein sah'ich fahren" for organ; Lewis H. Johnson: Newbury...
Performers: Metson, Marian Ruhl

Robin is to the Greenwood Gone / Paul O'Dette

1 CD / Warner Classics / 1987-01-01

Works: Daniel Bacheler: Mounsier's Almaine, for lute; Paul O'Dette: Ballad Tunes, for lute; Early Elizabethan Music, for lute; Anonymous, Scottish: Work(s); Antony Holborne: Work(s); Gregory Huwet: Fantasie...
Performers: O'Dette, Paul

The Scottish Lute Vol 1 / Ronn McFarlane

1 CD / Sono Luminus / 1986-07-30

Works: Anonymous, Jane Pickeringe's Lute Book: Drawe neare me and lowe me (from Jane Pickering Lute Book); A Scotts Tune (Jane Pickering Lute Book); The Scottish Huntsupe (Jane Pickering Lute Book); Anonymo...
Performers: McFarlane, Ronn [Lute]

Ron Mcfarlane, praised for "some of the most ravishing lute playing to be heard anywhere" (The Washington Times), presents a recital of lute and mandora...continue...

Caro Moi Ben / Dennis O'Neill

1 CD / Sain / 1986-01-02

Works: Gaetano Errico Pennino: Pecchè?; Irish Traditional: She Moved through the Fair, folk song; The lark in the clear air; Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms (a.k.a. "My Lodging is in ...
Performers: O'Neill, Dennis [Tenor Vocal]; Surgenor, Ingrid

This CD features Welsh tenor Dennis O'Neill in a program of operatic, light, traditional, and popular songs....continue...