Songs from Scotland

1. Scotland the Brave

2. Pio Braireachd

3. My Home in the Hills

4. Battle of the Tyne

5. Pipe Set 1: The Rustic Bridge by the Mill/Towsay Castle/Money Musk/Miss

6. Regimental March

7. Route March

8. Conund Rum

9. When the Battle Is Over

10. Regimental Company March

11. Pipe Set 2: Skye Boat Song/Barren Rocks of Aden/Faery Dance/Bonnie Dund

12. Amazing Grace

Songs from Scotland,Various Artists,Ent. Media Partners,Bagpipes,Int'l & World Music,Pop,Scotland,Traditional Scottish Folk

Average customer rating: Virtuoso Players Gild the Lilly Keep looking - there is much better stuff than this Diasppointed This album is an absolute disaster Take My Advice, I'm Only Tryin' to School Ya -

Bagpipes & Brass Manufacturer: Klavier ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Grainger | Grainger, Percy Aldridge | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Holst | Holst, Gustav | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Vaughan Williams, Ralph | ( V ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Film Scores | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Marches | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Vaughan Williams, Ralph | Composers | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Contemporary | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Choruses | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Marches | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Classic Big Band | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music A Cappella | Folk | Styles | Music Classical | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Highland Cathedral Amazing Grace Canadian Bagpipes American Brass Highland Christmas Scotland the Brave: Bagpipes Greatest Hits ASIN: B00005AAZ6 Release Date: 2000-10-01

Tracks:

1. Highland Cathedral
2. Scotland the Brave
3. Girl I Left Behind Me
4. Hector the Hero
5. Far and Away
6. Green Hills of Tyrol/When the Battle Is Over
7. Lament for Jef AR Oenven/An Dro
8. Murray's Fancy
9. I Love My Love
10. Cabar Feidh/Farewell to Nigg
11. Ye Banks and Braes O' Bonnie Doon
12. Henry the Fifth Overture
13. Amazing Grace

Customer Reviews:

Virtuoso Players Gild the Lilly.......2007-04-19

Reviewers who write that these are fine musicians playing lousy arrangements are correct. That's it exactly. The slower cuts are better than the up-tempo ones. Apparently this CD is a big hit with bagpipe tooters. So be it. The rest of us should pass it by or purchase it used.

Keep looking - there is much better stuff than this.......2005-10-05

This album is a perfect example of how a bad arrangement can ruin great music despite the best efforts of great musicians. Everything about this recording is right; selection, performers, sound engineering. Except that the tracks are horribly over-arranged with all sorts of distracting, subtracting variations and trite bridging passages.

Diasppointed.......2005-07-12

I am not saying the music is bad or the quality is lacking, because it is not. If you are looking for traditional music played in the traditional way, then this CD is not for you. It is like listening to everyone's interpretation when they sing the "Star Spangled Banner". There is no need to jazz things up that were not written to be. The titles are old but the variations on the score have a lot to be desired if you wanted to hear these songs played the way they were meant to be played.

This album is an absolute disaster.......2005-06-08

It's said that music soothes the savage beast, but bagpipes will do just the opposite. They will make the hair on your neck stand on end, your blood pressure go through the roof and prepare you to go to war. This album does neither.

The one piece which should most strongly produce the desired result is Scotland the Brave. In this album it is three minutes and twenty seven seconds, the first minute an ten of which are dedicated to fanfare. After that an orchestra plays some stylized version and, I think, I can detect a hint of bagpipes in there somewhere. When one has heard it done "correctly", one can recognize this as a total disaster.

Amazing Grace by the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards has a version that is just about right. (And that selection gives one the ability to listen to a sample. I can see why this one doesn't!)

Take My Advice, I'm Only Tryin' to School Ya -.......2004-07-07

I bought this album based on the rave reports of the other reviewers, and could NOT be more pleased with the result. Although not Scottish, I am a long-time bagpipe lover, and this album evokes visions of the Black Watch and other highland pipers moving through their intricate paces. The music is an aural feast, and the sound quality is excellent. I keep it in the CD player in the car and find that a quick drive or a long commute both become pleasures when I'm listening to it. Take my advice - if you have even a slight interest in pipes, drums or brass, you're going to love this album. (This is the first time I have ever written a review; it's a very compelling album!)

Average customer rating: Gorgeous CD a disappointment from Hyperion

Songs of Scotland / Marie McLaughlin · Malcolm Martineau Scottish Traditional , Percy Grainger , Alice Chambers Bunten , Robert Burns , English Traditional , Anonymous , Marie McLaughlin , Malcolm Martineau , and Isobel Frayling-Cork Manufacturer: Hyperion UK ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Grainger | Grainger, Percy Aldridge | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Compilations | Classical | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music Scottish Folk | Traditional British & Celtic Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Britain | British Isles | Europe | International | Styles | Music Scotland | British Isles | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Celtic | International | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Choruses | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Folk Songs | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music International | Imports | Stores | Music Classical | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Songs of Scotland Annie Laurie ~ Folksongs of the British Isles / Barrueco · The King's Singers The Songs Of Robert Burns, Volumes 1 & 2 Celtic Treasure A New Journey ASIN: B00004S3BD Release Date: 2000-04-11

Tracks:

1. Loch Lomond
2. O, Whistle and I'll Come to You, My Lad
3. Jock O' Hazeldean
4. Comin' Thro' the Rye
5. Ye Banks and Braes O' Bonnie Doon
6. Dance to Your Daddy
7. Flowers O' the Forest
8. Skye Boat Song
9. Cockle Gatherer
10. Fairy's Love Song
11. Gallant Weaver
12. Fidgety Bairn
13. Keel Row
14. There's Nae Luck About the House
15. Island Sheiling Song
16. White Cockade
17. Bonnie Wee Thing
18. Air Falalalo
19. Rosebud by My Early Walk
20. Hush-A-Ba, Birdie, Croon, Croon
21. Eriskay Love Lilt
22. My Love's in Germany
23. Winter It Is Past
24. Tocherless Lass
25. Laird O' Cockpen
26. Kind Robin Lo'es Me
27. Ca' the Yowes
28. Queen's Maries
29. Rowan Tree
30. Bonnie Earl O'Moray
31. O Willie's Gane Tae Melville Castle
32. Scots Wha Hae
33. Wee Cooper O' Fife

Customer Reviews:

Gorgeous CD.......2003-09-16

I actually haven't taken this CD out of the player since I got it. In my humble opinion. Hyperion is the classiest label going; in fact, I'll buy Hyperion CDs even without being familiar with the singers, because I trust the producers. I saw this CD classified in the folk section at the library--but I knew better. Marie McLaughlin is a real singer, not a folk singer, and she does justice to these beautiful songs. I'd rather hear a classically trained singer sing folk songs than a folk singer sing anything.

a disappointment from Hyperion.......2001-06-21

I do not wish to be too harsh on this album...there is nothing glaringly wrong with it. My main quibble is with the title: "Songs of Scotland." These songs may well be "from" Scotland...but they are not "of Scotland."

The music on "Songs of Scotland" is great--as long as you are looking for very English, semi-operatic readings of these Scottish songs.

Mrs. McLaughlin (an opera singer) sings beautifully; but in the style she is most accustomed too. Mr. Martineau certainly knows his way around a piano and as with Mrs. McLaughlin's singing, I find no fault in his playing here.

My quibble, which may well be minor to some...was that I expected much more "Scottish" sounding renditions of these songs; in this regard, I was disappointed.

This disc is OK in and of itself...recommendable even...but consider yourself warned. Now you know what you'll be getting.

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Peter Maxwell Davies: A Celebration Of Scotland Manufacturer: Unicorn ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Maxwell Davies, Peter | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Character Pieces | Short Forms | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Overtures | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Symphonies | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Violin | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Choruses | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music A Cappella | Folk | Styles | Music Similar Items: Davies Quartets 1 & 2 Peter Maxwell Davies: Naxos Quartets Nos. 3 & 4 Fibich: Complete Symphonies Gernsheim: Complete Symphonies Rochberg: String Quartets Nos. 3-6 ASIN: B000001PCM Release Date: 1993-12-07

Tracks:

1. An Orkney Wedding, With Sunrise
2. Kinloche, His Fantassie
3. Seven Songs Home: Home-Time At Last
4. Seven Songs Home: At The Shore
5. Seven Songs Home: The Heather Track
6. Seven Songs Home: At The Lochan
7. Seven Songs Home: Cold Tractor
8. Seven Songs Home: Tractor Ride
9. Seven Songs Home: Home
10. Yesnaby Ground
11. Dances From 'The Two Fiddlers'
12. Jimmack The Postie
13. Farewell To Stromness
14. Lullaby For Lucy
15. Renaissance Scottish Dances: Intrada
16. Renaissance Scottish Dances: Currant
17. Renaissance Scottish Dances: Sweit Smyling Katie Loves Me (With Ladie Louthian's Lilte)
18. Renaissance Scottish Dances: Last Time I Came Over The Mure
19. Renaissance Scottish Dances: Ane Exempill Of Tripla
20. Renaissance Scottish Dances: Remember Me My Deir
21. Renaissance Scottish Dances: Almayne

Average customer rating: The Bagpipes & Drums of Scotland / Folk music from Scotland. The Bagpipes & Drums of Scotland / Folk music from Scotland.

Folk Songs from Scotland Various Artists Manufacturer: Delta ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Scottish Folk | Traditional British & Celtic Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Britain | British Isles | Europe | International | Styles | Music Scotland | British Isles | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music Marches | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Scottish Folk | Traditional British & Celtic Folk | Folk | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Scottish Folk | Traditional British & Celtic Folk | Folk | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music CDs $7 - $10 | International General | International | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | International General | International | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music CDs $7 - $10 | British Isles | Europe | International | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | British Isles | Europe | International | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music 4-for-3 International | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Pop | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Folk | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B00001NTOO Release Date: 1999-09-28

Tracks:

1. Amazing Grace
2. Battle on the Tyne
3. My Home in the Hills
4. Pio Braireachd
5. Regimental March
6. Pipe Set 1: The Old Rustic Bridge by the Mill/Towsay Castle/Money Musk
7. Route March
8. When the Battle Is Over
9. Conund Rum
10. Regimental Company March
11. Pipe Set 2: Skye Boat Song/Barren Rocks of Aden/Faery Dance/Bonnie ...
12. Reveille
13. Miss Kirkwood
14. Scotland the Brave

Tracks:

1. Ballad of St. Anne's Reel
2. Hawks and Eagles
3. Wark O' the Weavers
4. Flowers O' Edinburgh
5. John Gunns Anniversary/Snouts and Ears, Gordie the Roadman/Wattens ...
6. Drumfries Polka
7. Gordon B. Cosh/The Thistle Centre/Monarch of the Gen - Jim MacLeod
8. Auld Lang Syne - Culture Ceilidh Band
9. Skye Boat Song/Mist Covered Mountains/Castlebay/Fir Na Fhata/Sky ... - Culture Ceilidh Band
10. Bonnie Dundee - Ron Gonnella
11. Provost of St. Vigeans/The Corner House - Ron Gonnella
12. Dancing in the Kyle - Alasdair Gillies
13. Setons Ceilidh Band/Tobermory Two-Step - MacLeod

Customer Reviews:

The Bagpipes & Drums of Scotland / Folk music from Scotland........2001-08-13

"Bagpipes and drums", It reminds me of marching in someway, it goes on and on sounding very much the same. "Folk music from Scotland", has better variety and vocals. Some of the songs are lively, with the excited violin sound.

The Bagpipes & Drums of Scotland / Folk music from Scotland........2001-08-13

"Bagpipes and drums". It reminds me of the circus songs, in someway. It goes on and on sounding very much the same. "Folk music from Scotland", has better variety and vocals. Some of the songs are lively, with the excited violin sound.

Average customer rating: Sweetly wistful remembrances & intimate musical settings

Celtic Women from Scotland Manufacturer: Greentrax ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Celtic | International | Styles | Music Similar Items: Walking in the Air Lisa Celtic Treasure A New Journey An Ancient Muse ASIN: B000K2UJBS Release Date: 2007-02-20

Customer Reviews:

Sweetly wistful remembrances & intimate musical settings.......2007-06-10

Playing Time - 65:19

SONGS - Canan Nan Gaidheal, Hush, Hush, Whaur Dae Ye Lie?, Amazing Grace (Gaelic Psalm version), Lament For The Commandos/Dunkirk, Soraidh Leis An Ait (Farewell To The Place), MacCrimmon's Lament (MacCrimmon's Sweetheart), Braighe Loch Iall (The Braes of Lochiel), Ae Fond Kiss, Both Sides The Tweed, Fear A Bhata, Time Wears Awa, I Ho Ro's Na Hug Ore Exile (A Love Song), Auld Lang Syne

The 14 powerful songs on "Celtic Women from Scotland" are drawn from previously released albums on Scotland's Greentrax record label. The project is subtitled "Songs of Love & Reflection" so one should expect sweetly wistful remembrances and intimate musical settings. All the selections are beautiful songs of love, praise, lamentation, or tribute. Four are sung in the Gaelic language including the album's opener, Catherine-Ann MacPhee's charming rendition of "Canan Nan Gaidheal" (Language of the Gael) that has become the rallying song of the Gaels. In a contemporary and emotional vein, Karine Polwart sings her own self-penned "Whaur Dae Ye Lie?," in memory of the townspeople massacred in Srebrenica, Bosnia by Serb forces in 1995. Mairi Campbell sings a popular Dick Gaughan song, "Both Sides The Tweed," wit optimism for good future relations between England and Scotland. There are two selections (Ae Fond Kiss, Auld Lang Syne) drawn from the repertoire of Scotland's national poet and bard, Rabbie Burns. I was a tad disappointed that none of the women chose an offering from another famous Scottish composer, Lady Nairne.

Other hypnotic and defining voices on the CD include those of Lynn Morrison, Karen Matheson, Isla St. Clair, Ishbel MacAskill, Heather Heywood, Alyth McCormack, Sheena Wellington, Mairi Campbell, Mairi MacInnes, Alison McMorland, Margaret Stewart, and Gill Bowman. All of the women has expressive, enticing vocals, and you'll want to explore more of their music on the albums sampled. It would have been nice for the CD jacket to credit the accompanists on each piece. All in all, this generous hour-long set has some splendid, albeit plaintive, folk ballads about affection, devotion, and contemplation. Because there are so many beautifully melancholic and emotional moments, I was only able to listen to these tracks in numerous sittings. (Joe Ross, Roseburg, OR. rossjoe at hotmail dot com)

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Singalong Songs from Scotland The Singing Kettle Manufacturer: Smithsonian Folkways ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Children's Music | Styles | Music Compilations | Children's Music | Styles | Music General | Children's Music | Indie Music | Stores | Music Smithsonian Folkways Store | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Similar Items: Birds, Beasts, Bugs & Fishes Little & Big: Animal Folk Songs ASIN: B00008BXIZ Release Date: 2003-03-25

Tracks:

1. Three Craws
2. Aiken Drums
3. Picnic Treat
4. Ten In The Bed
5. No Pyjamas On
6. Buy Me A Banana
7. Down On The Funny Farm
8. Bunny Fou Fou
9. The Green Grass Grew All Around
10. Air Guitar
11. Opposites
12. Apples And Bananas
13. Five Wee Monkeys
14. The Ants Went Marching
15. My Boy's A Cowboy
16. Boa Constrictor
17. Friends Like You

Album Description

Taking their name from their hometown of Kingskettle, Fife, in Scotland, this beloved group of performers has enchanted children and adults alike throughout the United Kingdom via their popular TV series on the BBC and ITV networks. The Singing Kettle are Cilla Fisher, Artie Trezise and Gary Coupland, joined on this recording by former group member Jane Fisher and present member Kevin Macleod. This recording, the first to be distributed widely outside the United Kingdom, offers families and kids of all ages the opportunity to sing along with the Singing Kettle! Notes, lyrics, 17 tracks, 52 minutes.

Average customer rating: absolutely wonderful

Scottish Tradition, Vol. 3: Waulking Songs from Barra Various Artists Manufacturer: Greentrax ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music Scottish Folk | Traditional British & Celtic Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Britain | British Isles | Europe | International | Styles | Music Scotland | British Isles | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Celtic | International | Styles | Music Similar Items: Waulking Songs ASIN: B00000241D Release Date: 1994-09-06

Tracks:

1. Were You In The Mountains?/My Love Alan - Miss Mary Morrison & Chorus
2. Ho Ro Hug O Hug O - Miss Mary Morrison & Chorus
3. One Day As I Roamed The Hills - Miss Mary Morrison & Chorus
4. Pipe Reels - Calum Johnston
5. Woman Over There Who Laughed - Calum Johnston & Chorus
6. The Silver Whistle - Mrs Kate Buchanan & Chorus
7. Early Today I Set Out - Mrs Flora Boyd & Chorus

Customer Reviews:

absolutely wonderful.......1999-08-15

This is an absolutely wonderful step back in time for all those who truly love and wish to hear a true slice of Scotland. A forgotten world, wonderful music, remembered again.

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Secret Orders: Imported From Scotland Claire Mann Manufacturer: tradmusic ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Celtic | International | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CAKW74 Release Date: 2005-06-07

Tracks:

1. McElvogue's
2. Smiling Bride
3. Saints and Sinners
4. Valsen
5. Across the Western Ocean
6. Tripping
7. Fortune's Wheel
8. Snappy Guzzlin'
9. Slip Jigs and Reels
10. Bottle of Whisky
11. Lament for the Kerry Fisherman

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Dance Tunes, Airs, Songs from Scotland Calluna Manufacturer: Celtic America Llc ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music ASIN: B000056KZH Release Date: 2002-01-01

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Songs from a Woman's Heart Lena Martell Manufacturer: Scotdisc ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Britain | British Isles | Europe | International | Styles | Music Scotland | British Isles | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Classic | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Cabaret | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music Broadway & Vocalists | Imports | Stores | Music Pop | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: The Best of Lena Martell: One Day at a Time ASIN: B000EPFDAS Release Date: 2006-04-11

Tracks:

1. The Promise
2. You Were Always On My Mind
3. A Thousand Ships
4. If Tomorrow Never Comes
5. These Are My Mountains
6. Heart Of Glasgow
7. Songbird
8. My Scotland
9. Ave Maria
10. Plaisir D'Amour
11. The Long Day Is Over
12. Carrickfergus
13. Only A Woman's Heart
14. Spirit Of Edinburgh (Colours Of Fire)
15. To Be Where You Are
16. My Love Will Lead You Home
17. One Day At A Time
18. An Old-Fashioned Christmas

Album Description

Lena Martell won an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records in 1979 with her biggest-selling single "One Day at a Time," which stayed in the charts for 36 weeks and spent five weeks at #1 in four countries! Over a 10-year period, Martell also had her own BBC network television show. She has performed on Broadway, London's West End and a sold-out season at the London Palladium, where her box office matched those of Shirley MacLaine and Bette Midler. Features seven original compositions combined with popular classic titles.

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