The 2nd CD in Alasdair Fraser's "Legacy of the Scottish Fiddle" series takes a fresh look at the fiddle tunes that inspired the songs of Scotland's greatest poet, Robert Burns, as well as 18th and 19th Century chamber music from the likes of Haydn, Bruch and Mendelssohn. This trio featuring fiddler Fraser, Scottish pianist Muriel Johnstone and rising-star cellist Natalie Haas recreates tantalizing jigs, sweet airs, soul-stirring marches and rousing reels - the music Burns would have used to flirt, dance, sob and sing. Includes instrumental renditions of "Scot's Wha' Hae," "A Man's a Man for A' That," "My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose," "Green Grow the Rashes O" and others.
1 Watson's Scotch Measure/Lady Mary Hay's Scotch Measure
2 Muirland Willie/Hoop Her & Gird Her/Merrily Danced the Quaker's Wife/The Hemp Dresser
3 The Yellow-Haired Laddie/Afton Water
4 Argyle Bowling Green/Earl of Hyndford's Reel/Miss Farquharson of Invercauld's Reel/Hon. Mrs. Campbell of Lochnell's Reel
5 Hey, Tutti, Taitie (Scots, Wha Hae)
6 The Bashful Lover/Corn Rigs/Sic a Wife As Willie Had/Duncan Gray/Red House
7 O'er the Muir Among the Heather
8 The Miller's Daughter/My Wife's a Wanton Wee Thing/Deuks Dang Ower My Daddy/I Hae a Wife
9 Ca' the Ewes
10 Invercauld's Reel/The Lea Rig/Raalin Roarin Willie/Col. David Stewart of Garth
11 Killiecrankie
12 Loch Erroch Side/Rothiemurchus Rant/Bonnie Lass of Fisherrow/The Marquis of Queensberry
13 Lads of Leith/The Highway to Edinburgh
14 Miss Johnstone/Mr. Ferguson of Raith's Strathspey/Green Grow the Rashestibby Fowler O' the Glen/The Drummer
15 My Nanie O
16 Sir Walter Scott/Dainty Davie/Mr. John Trotter of Castlelaw's Hornpipe
17 Wandering Willie/Major Graham of Inchbrakie/McLauchlane's Scots Measure
18 Within a Mile of Edinburgh Town/Bonny Wee Thing/Wha Can Help It
19 Cadgers in the Canongate/Bonnie Anne/The Highlandman Kissed His Mother/Push About the Jorum/Lady MacKintosh's Reel/Edinburgh Castle Reel/Up, and Warn' A', Willie
20 For A' That An' A' That (A Man's a Man)
21 Goodnight & Joy Be Wi' Ye A'/Gates of Edinburgh/The Bottom of the Punch Bowl/The Cairdin' O'T
The 2nd CD in Alasdair Fraser's "Legacy of the Scottish Fiddle" series takes a fresh look at the fiddle tunes that inspired the songs of Scotland's greatest poet, Robert Burns, as well as 18th and 19th Century chamber music from the likes of Haydn, Bruch and Mendelssohn. This trio featuring fiddler Fraser, Scottish pianist Muriel Johnstone and rising-star cellist Natalie Haas recreates tantalizing jigs, sweet airs, soul-stirring marches and rousing reels - the music Burns would have used to flirt, dance, sob and sing. Includes instrumental renditions of "Scot's Wha' Hae," "A Man's a Man for A' That," "My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose," "Green Grow the Rashes O" and others.
