Marie McLaughlin - Songs of Scotland
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Marie McLaughlin - Songs of Scotland
Marie McLaughlin (soprano) Malcolm Martineau (piano) Isobel Frayling-Cork (clarsach)
[ Hyperion Helios / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 10 July 2009
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"McLaughlin sings with passionate intensity, and her voice has all the colors of the rainbow for these widely varying songs … An album to treasure'" Fanfare
"Marie McLaughlin sings these songs in a clear, unpretentious soprano, evidently delighting in the texts, which she delivers in a pleasing, crystalline brogue. An exquisite disc." International Record Review
"McLaughlin sings with passionate intensity, and her voice has all the colors of the rainbow for these widely varying songs … An album to treasure'" Fanfare
"Marie McLaughlin sings with warm tone, affection, humour and zest" Gramophone Magazine
"Marie McLaughlin's gleaming yet often dark-hued soprano takes to this music as to the bothy born; and Edinburgh-born Malcolm Martineau heels and toes it with great imaginative finesse, tuning in to the physical essence of each song, be it the springing heather tread of the high road and the low road, or the mesmeric oscillations of a lullaby from Barra." BBC Music Magazine
Scotland's own Marie McLaughlin, celebrated in opera houses throughout the world, sings 33 delectable songs from her native land. Many favourites are here, from Loch Lomond to The Skye boat song, but also some less well-known songs, both merry (The white cockade, O Willie's gane tae Melville castle) and sad (The winter it is past). Two are sung unaccompanied (The flowers of the forest, My love's in Germany) and several are sung with the clarsach-the Celtic harp.
Full texts are included along with interesting notes by John Currie.
Tracks:
1 Loch Lomond 'By yon bonnie banks and by yon bonnie braes' [2'55]
2 O, whistle and I'll come to you, my lad [2'03]
3 Jock o' Hazeldean 'Why weep ye by the tide, ladye?' [1'54]
4 Comin' thro' the rye 'Gin a body, meet a body' [1'43]
5 Ye banks and braes o' bonnie Doon [2'36]
6 Dance to your daddy [0'42]
7 The flowers o' the forest 'I've heard a liltin' at oor yowe milkin'' [2'34]
8 The Skye boat song 'Speed, bonnie boat, like a bird on the wing' [3'17]
(with Isobel Frayling-Cork, clarsach)
9 The cockle gatherer 'I dal a du vil, I dal a du ho ro' [1'30]
(with Isobel Frayling-Cork, clarsach)
10 A fairy's love song 'Why should I sit and sigh, puin' bracken, puin' bracken' [1'57]
(with Isobel Frayling-Cork, clarsach)
11 The gallant weaver 'Where Cart rins rowin' tae the sea' [1'18]
12 The fidgety bairn 'Hush, my dear, the gallopin' men ride thro' the bracken' [2'11]
13 The keel row 'As I cam' doun the Canongate, I he'rd a laddie sing' [0'56]
14 There's nae luck about the house 'And are ye sure the news is true?' [1'27]
15 An island sheiling song 'Last night by the sheiling was Mhairi, my beloved' [2'48]
16 The white cockade 'My love was born in Aberdeen' [0'53]
17 Bonnie wee thing [2'42]
18 Air falalalo [2'16]
19 A rosebud by my early walk [2'54]
20 Hush-a-ba, birdie, croon, croon [1'48]
21 An Eriskay love lilt 'Vair me o rovan o, vair me o rovan ee' [2'24]
22 My love's in Germany [2'50]
23 The winter it is past [2'09]
24 The tocherless lass 'Sheep and cattle I hae nane, O' [2'31]
25 The Laird o' Cockpen [2'14]
26 Kind Robin lo'es me 'O Robin is my only jo, for Robin has the art tae lo'e' [2'31]
27 Ca' the yowes [3'48]
28 The Queen's Maries 'Yestreen the queen had four Maries' [1'43]
29 The rowan tree 'Oh! rowan tree, Oh! rowan tree' [3'25]
30 The bonnie Earl o' Moray 'Ye Hielands and ye Lowlands, O where hae ye been?' [2'49]
31 O Willie's gane tae Melville Castle [2'24]
32 Scots wha hae [2'21]
33 The wee cooper o' Fife 'There was a wee cooper wha lived in Fife' [1'45]
