Composers: James Scott Skinner | John Playford | Jordi Savall | Nathaniel Gow | Niel Gow | Traditional
Series about Catalan gambist and conductor Jordi Savall, part 23. The Celtic side of Savall. Both last year and this year, Savall presented a CD The Celtic Viol: Savall exploring Celtic folk music. In his own, unprecedented way.
1. Traditional Irish.
– The Musical Priest/Scotch Mary.
2. Captain Simon Fraser (1816 Collection).
– Caledonia’s Wail for Niel Gow.
3. Traditional Irish.
– The Humours of Scariff.
4. Nathaniel Gow.
– Alastair MacAlastair.
Ryan’s Mammoth Collection.
5. Tom Brigg’s Jig.
6. The Globby O, Jig.
7. Lord Moira’s & Jinrikisha.
8. Traditional Irish.
– Sackow’s Jig.
Jordi Savall, viola da gamba. Andrew Lawrence-King, Celtic harp.
(Alia Vox 9865, 2009)
9. Traditional Scottish.
– Hard is my Fate.
10. Traditional Scottish reel.
– Tullochgorum.
11. Traditional Scottish/ Irish.
– Pretty Peggy.
12. Playfords’ Dancing Master (1696).
– Twas within a furlong of Edinburgh Town.
13. Captain Simon Fraser (1816 Collection).
– Mary Young & Fair.
14. Traditional Irish.
– Dowd’s Reel.
15. Scottish Dance.
– Lady Mary Hay’s Scots Measure.
Jordi Savall, viola da gamba. Andrew Lawrence-King, Celtic harp.
(Alia Vox 9865, 2009)
16. Traditional Irish.
– The Galway Bay Hornpipe.
17. John Playford (1718).
– The Rover Reformed.
18. John Walsh (1713) / Traditional Irish.
– Lord Frog Dance & Buckingham House.
19. Nathaniel Gow (1763-1831).
– Miss Sally Hunter of Thurston.
20. James Scott Skinner (1843-1927).
– Mrs. Scott Skinner.
21. Traditional Irish/ O’Neil (Chicago 1903).
– Alexander’s Hornspipe & Harvest Home.
Jordi Savall, viola da gamba. Andrew Lawrence-King, Celtic harp. Frank McGuire, bodhran.
(Alia Vox 9878, 2010)
