Flowers of Edinburgh

Track Listings

1. Clare McLaughlin, Marianne Campbell, John Moran

2. Jim Malcolm. Dave Watt, Iain MacFadyen

3. Mairi Campbell, Iain MacInnes

4. Talitha Mackenzie

5. John Morran

6. Jim Sutherland, Iain MacLeod, Simon Bradley

7. Russell Hunter, Eilidh Shaw, Simon Bradley,Angus Grant

8. May Shaw, Tony Mitchell

9. Sandy Brechin

10. Eilidh Shaw, Ross Martin, Leo McCann

11. Elspeth Cowie

12. 'The Flowers of Edinburgh'

Editorial Reviews
Dave Francis, Shoots & Roots Festival director
A breath-taking lineup of Edinburgh - based traditional music talent......'If there was any doubt that Edinburgh is THE centre for traditional music in the UK this recording of the Flowers of Edinburgh concert will dispel it.'

About the Artist
Simon Bradley - fiddle. Legendary player now with Llan de Cubel.

Sandy Brechin - Piano Accordeon. Sandy plays a mixture of trad, pop jazz and cajun. Seelyhoo & Sandy Brechin Band

Mairi Campbell - fiddle. Workshop leader and much in demand teacher, she plays in 'The Cast'and The Bella McNab Band

Marianne Campbell - fiddle. Great player and member of dynamic young band Deaf Shepherd.

Elspeth Cowie - Vocal. Great traditional singer, Elspeth has been a member of Seannachie and Chantan.

Angus... read more

Album Description
Edinburgh with its vibrant traditional music scene is the place where hundreds of leading musicians, composers and performers have chosen as home in the last decade.The First 'Flowers of Edinburgh' concert which took place on 12th April, 1998 as part of the Shoots & Roots Festival show-cased the wonderful talents of over thirty of those superb artists. The Flowers of Edinburgh CD recorded live at this land-mark concert features a selection of those amazing performances.

Flowers of Edinburgh

Tracks:

Rickett's Hornpipe/ Fishers Hornpipe
Maiden Lane/ Jack O' Lent/ Chestnut/Bonny Broom
Parting Friends/Primrose
Flowers of Edinburgh/East Neuke of Fife
Prelude / La Catherine
Planxty Browne/Planxty Burke
Cutie Clat Her
John Come Kiss me Now
Scots Tune
Carolan's Farewell to Music
A Port
Yeil, yeil
Kedron/Saint's Delight/Promised Land
Gird the Logie
La Belle Cavalier
La Luxillier/La Balanje
Federal Overture
Death & Life

Album Description

Spirited new sounds from across the sea to the shores of the New Land. From the first colonists to the American Revolution and the birth of our republic Hesperus Early Music Ensemble's music reflects a time of new ideas, freedom and vitality. In town and village, parlor and ballroom, from the Appalachians to the great concert halls hear the musical pulse of early American music performed on a wide variety of folk and early music instruments. Includes: lively country-dance tunes, evocative Shape Note Hymns, old time Appalachian fiddle tunes, graceful European parlor music, French cotillions, divisions and improvisations. Introduction -The English Colonies in America were a patchwork-not just of territories whose boundaries became state lines, but of people from different places and classes with widely different values and experiences. This recording presents music from that patchwork; from England, the Colonial homeland; Scotland and Ireland, the homes of the largest groups of immigrants outside England; and France, the ally of the Patriots, and music written in the United States. More recordings by HESPERUS from Maggie's Music are Celtic Roots featuring Scottish fiddler, Bonnie Rideout and Early American Roots. Hesperus Ensemble is THE sought after musical group for period music that is both authentic, and most important fun, lively and spirited. They are frequent performers at the Smithsonian's Institute of American Music and can be heard on the soundtrack or the Paramount film with Johnny Depp entitled Sleepy Hollow! Excerpts from liner notes:2.A Set of English Country Dance Tunes: Maiden Lane, Jack O'Lent, Chestnut, Bonny Broom - The visionary London music publisher John Playford first published his English Dancing Master in 1651. It was reprinted 18 times over the next 77 years and is still popular today. 3. Parting Friends/Primrose - These tunes have come down to us in choral arrangements called shape-note hymns .

Customer Reviews:

GREAT!.......2007-05-20

This cd travels everywhere with me and you can easily imagine a ball at Monticello given by Mr. Jefferson when you hear it.
Try not to daydream too much while driving as i had done several times..lol..it's hard not to with this cd..:)
Perfect for a colonial reenactment or party.

A relaxing journey into our Colonial past.......2006-03-16

I bought this CD to provide me with another dimension to my studies of period events. It truly contains a wealth of music, and takes it place as an important addition to my musical library. Living in the Mt Vernon area, I often travel with the CD playing while visiting historical places, and it provides a wonderful companion to "set the mood" for the myriad locations in the area. The quality of the sound is remarkable, the musicians superb, and the breadth of song selection provides a musical landscape for the period. Highly recommended!!

Fantastic!.......2004-03-04

I first heard the "Colonial America" CD by Hesperus when I visited Monticello recently (the home of Thomas Jefferson) where they were playing the songs in the gift shop. Imagine my dismay to find that only one cassette tape was left of the fabulous music of Hesperus; however, that tape held me spell-bound all the way home, from Virginia to North Carolina.

It was an incredible journey from the past that has stayed with me since, and every day I drive that one hour back and forth to work. This music has changed everything about the trips, and I can't wait for more.

Thanks to Amazon.com I was able to buy all three CD's, including "Early American Roots," "Colonial America" and the incredible "Celtic Roots" with the most beautiful violas imaginable.

Thank you Hesperus! Please play more!

Cold Mountain type music that's great.......2003-11-15

Novels and movies like Cold Mountain, Oh Brother Where Art Thou? and Song Catchers are showing the growing interest in traditional music and this recording hits the mark. It is music from the days of early America--the time when the first colonists come to America. You can hear the fiddle playing tunes still popular in the Appalachian mountains today and also hear shape note music arranged by Hesperus as wonderful instrumentals. The music takes you to a time when folks were making music in their homes-before TV, before the internet! This recording is good for teachers or educational purposes too- with informative liner notes. All the music is played on folk and early music instruments and it's lively and an enjoyable listen.

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OK
Great Music
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Stirring Americana

Liberty! (1997 Television Mini-series)

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ASIN: B0000029YF
Release Date: 1997-10-28

Tracks:

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Customer Reviews:

OK.......2005-03-17

Good CD, especially if you're a fan of Mark O'Conner. I have to admit that a couple of the tracks seem rather directionless (in a Vaughn Williams sort of way) and I tend to lose interest, but other tracks are fun, even exciting. The production is excellent throughout.

Great Music.......2004-02-27

I watched the documentary and heard Mark O'Connor play this piece in a concert and loved it immediately. The music is great to help the battles come alive but great for just listening to anyway.

GREAT SOUNDTRACK!.......2003-07-04

Fine CD full of great pieces of music from a great miniseries! Full of patriotism! I highly recommend it! Grade: A+

Finest Music Ever Heard.......2002-03-27

I heard this music on the excellent P B S Documentary: "Liberty - the American Revolution" and I knew I had to have it! It is the finest music I have heard, capturing the heart and soul of the American Revolution. The documentary "Liberty" was a masterpiece that was beautiful and moving. So too this music with its most wonderful arrangements and accompaniment. I love it! I could hardly wait to get it in the mail. It framed the documentary (which I also bought) like a great frame compliments a beautiful canvas painting. Superlatives fail me. This music must be experienced by first watching the great series on the American Revolution and then by listening to it apart. This is some of the most wonderful music I have ever heard. It reminds me of the genius of Aaron Copland who wrote the Applachian Spring and Rodeo suites.

Stirring Americana.......2001-11-10

This CD stands on its own merits as good music, not simply as music for a TV show. It evokes images of America old and new. O'Connor's violin carries us from the dance hall to the battlefield to the sorrow of lover's lost. Simple melodies twist and turn, rising up from their solid American roots. James Taylor's solemn rendition of "Johnny's Gone for a Soldier"is as true a telling of the grief of the soldier lost to war today as it was hundreds of years ago. Sit in a comfortable chair in the warm light of evening and let it surround you. To know where we have come from offers hope that the magic of freedom and liberty will not desert us in these troubled times.

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Janet Baker Sings
Haydn , Beethoven , Baker , Menuhin , and Malcom
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Julianne Baird is the reason to buy this CD

Celtic Caravans - Road to Romanticism

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Tracks:

Traditional Scottish Songs (arr. Haydn)
Traditional Welsh Airs
Traditional Scottish Songs (arr. Haydn)
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Original English Songs (Haydn)
Traditional Welsh Airs (arr. Haydn)

Album Description

Traditional Celtic music has almost continually enlivened the world of formal classical music. While Celtic-speaking peoples lived through much of central Europe during the first millennium BCE -- including modern France, Austria, Switzerland and beyond -- during the following 2000 years leading up to our own time, their range has gradually narrowed to just the British Isles and western France. While 'Celtic' in America and Britain increasingly refers simply to 'Irish' music, in Europe 'Celtic' may refer broadly to the music of any of the far-flung branches of the ancient linguistic tree.

Our program explores actual Scottish, Welsh and Irish music as well as arrangements conceived by Haydn and Beethoven to flatter the 'exotic' taste of art-music audiences. In addition, we present Haydn's canzonettas, which are essentially newly created works inspired by English folksong style. At this time, when music was beginning to overflow the banks of Classicism to become Romanticism, the term 'Celtic'had not truly emerged as a political and artistic term. Only in the late 19th century did the 'Celtic Twilight' movement associated with William Butler Yeats consciously attempt to revive ancient relationships between the various far-flung Celtic peoples.

Customer Reviews:

Julianne Baird is the reason to buy this CD.......2007-04-06

If you love Celtic music as I do, this is a must have for your CD colletion. Julianne Baird has more than a beautiful voice; she is a first rate musician and interpreter of these traditional Scottish and Welsh songs.

Check out the third item on the sampler. I think you will love the traditional scottish songs arranged by Haydn.

The CD also includes original English songs by Haydn as well as Haydn and Beethoven arrangements of traditional celtic folk songs and instrumental variations. Lux Musica is the ensemble of flute, violin, violoncello, and keyboard. Their music is well done, but Julianne Baird is the reason to buy this CD.

This is just pure enjoyment.

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Flowers of Edinburgh
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Tracks:

Clare McLaughlin, Marianne Campbell, John Moran
Jim Malcolm. Dave Watt, Iain MacFadyen
Mairi Campbell, Iain MacInnes
Talitha Mackenzie
John Morran
Jim Sutherland, Iain MacLeod, Simon Bradley
Russell Hunter, Eilidh Shaw, Simon Bradley,Angus Grant
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Sandy Brechin
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Elspeth Cowie
'The Flowers of Edinburgh'

Album Description

Edinburgh with its vibrant traditional music scene is the place where hundreds of leading musicians, composers and performers have chosen as home in the last decade.The First 'Flowers of Edinburgh' concert which took place on 12th April, 1998 as part of the Shoots & Roots Festival show-cased the wonderful talents of over thirty of those superb artists. The Flowers of Edinburgh CD recorded live at this land-mark concert features a selection of those amazing performances.

Music Album:

Music Album

1. Clare McLaughlin, Marianne Campbell, John Moran
2. Jim Malcolm. Dave Watt, Iain MacFadyen
3. Mairi Campbell, Iain MacInnes
4. Talitha Mackenzie
5. John Morran
6. Jim Sutherland, Iain MacLeod, Simon Bradley
7. Russell Hunter, Eilidh Shaw, Simon Bradley,Angus Grant
8. May Shaw, Tony Mitchell
9. Sandy Brechin
10. Eilidh Shaw, Ross Martin, Leo McCann
11. Elspeth Cowie
12. 'The Flowers of Edinburgh'