A Scottish Christmas
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Brand: Mel BayEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1996-08-20
Music Label: Maggie's Music
Soundtracks:
- O Come, O Come Emmanuel/God Rest Ye Merry, Gentleman
- Here We Come A-Wassailing/Bottom Of The Punch Bowl
- Christmas Duanag/Hark The Bonny Christ Church Bells
- What Child Is This (Greensleeves)
- Rock Thee O' Child/Christ Child's Lullaby
- Christmas Carousing/Ale Is Dear/New Christmas
- Da' Day Dawis/Christmas Day I' Da Moornin'
- Adeste Fidelis (O Come All Ye Faithful)
- Baloo, Lammy
- Gloomy Winter
- The Huntsman's Bag of Grain/Goosegirl's Song/New Year's Day
- New Year's Day/On Christmas Night
- Yeoman's Carol/Sound Of Sleat
- Rorate (Nativity)
- All Sons Of Adam
- Auld Lang Syne
Music reviews of A Scottish Christmas
Music Review: Very nice seasonal world music
Rating: 3 Stars
I particularly love the hammered dulcimer and on the songs where it is prominent on this CD, it is a pleasure to hear such mastery of that difficult instrument. It is especially complimented by the bagpipes that accent throughout several where they work wonderfully well together and offer their ancient, celtic flavor to the traditional Scottish songs of Christmas. The "Yeoman's Carol/Sound of Sleat" is rich with the musical harmonics of those two instruments together.The Scottish tunes on this CD are very engaging. "Hark the Bonny Christ Church Bells", "Da a Day Dawis", "New Year's Day/On Christmas Night", "Rorate" in particular, really bring forth the feeling of Scotland. However, I did not much care for the styling on those more familiar songs, (to North American ears) such as "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen", or "Greensleeves", and "O Come all ye Faithful". Personal taste aside, the blending of fiddle, hammered dulcimer, guitar and bagpipes offer a refreshing and interesting taste of scottish music and nicely showcase the talents of the main three award winning artists and their backup players. Plan a party, find a bottle of fine scotch and invite some friends full of mischief and a desire for fun to spend some time laughing and dancing to this high spirited musical rendition of Christmas cheer.
Description of A Scottish Christmas
Celebrate the many moods of A Scottish Christmas!Traditional Scottish carols, wassail tunes, strathspeys and reels for the celebration of Christmas, Hogmanay & the New Year, featuring Bonnie Rideout on Scottish fiddle, Al Petteway on guitar & cittern, Maggie Sansone on hammered dulcimer, Eric Rigler (the piper on "Braveheart" soundtrack) on Highland bagpipes, Scottish smallpipes & Uilleann pipes, with Abby cello and percussion.A Scottish Christmas in now a national touring ensemble and this CD recording captures all the sounds and magic of the stage show with performances on Scottish fiddle, viola, hammered dulcimer, guitar, pipes and drums. It was featured on CBS-TV's Sunday Morning and praised as "ancient and infectious...one of the best selling CDs of the season and so compelling no matter what the listener's ancestry." It made The New York Times "Top 10 Holiday Picks" and was featured on both NPR's Performance Today and The Thistle & Shamrock. It was a WAMMI! E winner, "Celtic Recording," Washington Area Musicians Association. Here the THE BRAVEHEART SOUND of Eric Rigler was the piper on Mel Gibson?s BRAVEHEART; HOLIDAY FAVORITES WITH A SCOTTISH FLAIR Oh, Come All Ye Faithfull, What Child Is This LIVELY COUNTRY DANCE TUNES FOR THE HOLIDAYS: The Bottom of the Punch Bowl, Ale is Dear and SCOTLAND?S GREATEST MUSICAL GIFT TO THE SEASON: Auld Lang Syne- written by Scotland?s Greatest Poet Robert Burns .Classical CDs
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