> A while ago I publicly lamented the paucity of recordings in what > might be termed the Scottish Trad/Chamber Music genre, having nearly > worn my Puirt a Baroque and Pete Clark albums threadbare. Matt humbly > brought 'Border Seasons' to my attention.
You might also give a listen to a newly released CD of "The Art of Robert Burns" recorded several years ago under David Johnson's direction and only just released (unsavoury bulmerish considerations having delayed it) on a new label, Scotstown Records. There are also some fiddle music tracks with Bonnie Rideout. Not every track works for me but rather that than the sort of thing Fred Freeman does any day. And I just heard David Greenberg's new CD "Spring any day now" with Concerto Caledonia. My God. That is *really* impressive. The kind of mixture (Scottish/early, avant-jazz, Hungarian, Finnish, Romanian) that you need a mind-boggling degree of musicianship to get away with, and they've got it. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack Campin: 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU; 0131 6604760 <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack> * food intolerance data & recipes, Mac logic fonts, Scots traditional music files and CD-ROMs of Scottish music. ----> off-list mail to "j-c" rather than "scots-l" at this site, please <---- Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
