For ever Fortune
Scottish Music in the 18th Century
Uniquely charming Scottish melodies and dance tunes, the poetry of period, the instruments and the energy of traditional phrasing.
Eighteenth-century Scottish music is fascinating for the way in which traditional and ‘classical’ styles were interwoven. Italian music, and in particular that of Corelli, was imported to Scotland and adopted by composers and performers such as William McGibbon, James Oswald, Robert McIntosh and many others. Without exception, these composers used the themes of their traditional music and adapted them to the forms and harmonies of the rococo style. In this way they created a music with a unique charm, a delicious mixture of ancestral modality and baroque harmony.
Bringing together dance airs, songs and airs with variations, Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien present a rare programme, in an interpretation that combines the poetry of period instruments with the energy of traditional phrasing.
6 musicians
Robert Getchell or Nick Scott : tenor
François Lazarevitch : flutes/smallpipes & direction
violin, viola da gamba, theorbo/cittern, triple harp
Production
Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien
Programme
Instrumental suite : Wally as the Marquess Ran (Variations, Strathspey et reels, XVIIIe s.)
Saw na ye my Peggie song (William Thomson 1733)
Princess Royal (Niel Gow 1727-1807) –For ever Fortune (song, William Thomson 1733)
Mrs Judge (Turlough O’Carolan 1670-1738) – John Anderson My Jo (song, Daniel Wright 1731)
Song (march) : Loch-Erroch Side
Reels (violin solo) : Lady Mary Hay’s Scotch Measure (Nathaniel Gow 1763-1831) –The Flower of Edinburgh (James Oswald 1710-1769)
Song : Ettrick Banks (song, William Thomson 1733)
Reels (flute solo) : The Fyket (Niel Gow) – Miss Bisset Logierait’s reel (Malcolm Mcdonald 1788) – Was ye at the Bridal (James Oswald) – The Cadgers of the Cannongate (Niel Gow)
Instrumental suite :
Benney Side (James Oswald)
Pearlin Peggie’s Bonny (William Christie 1820)
The Gum ga’d Aber (Gairdyn manuscript, vers 1710)
Adew Dundee (Skene manuscript, vers 1620)
Song : For our lang biding here (William Thomson 1733)
Jigs : Joy gae wi’ my love – The Flaughter Spade – Patrick McDonald’s Jig
Song : Lochaber (William Thomson)
Song (jig) : Muirland Willie (William Thomson)
Moc Donogh’s lamentation (Turlough O’Carolan)
Strathspey suite & reels : The Wawking of the faulds (William Thomson) – I wish I wou’d marry me – An Caora crom – Ratha fair – Haud the lass till I come at her – Clean Peas Strae (Niel Gow)
Forthcoming
events
Discographie
For ever fortune
- Saw na ye my Peggie (3:01)
- Johnnie Cope – Laughlan’s lilt (3:25)
- MacCrimmon’s Lament (2:34)
- Princess Royal – For ever Fortune (3:59)
- Mrs Judge (1:51)
- John Anderson My Jo (3:16)
- Kennet’s Dream (3:46)
- Etrick Banks (3:42)
- The Fyket – Miss Bisset Logierait’s reel – Was ye at the Bridal – The Cadgers of the Cannongate (2:40)
- Benney side (2:51)
- Pearlin Peggie’s Bonny (2:25)
- The Gwin gad Albor (2:00)
- Adew Dundee (2:32)
- For our lang biding here – Joy gæ wi my love – The Flaughter Spade – Patrick McDonald’s Jig
- Loch-Erroch Side (1:54)
- The Flower of Edinburgh – Lady Mary Hay’s Scotch Measure (3:01)
- Lochaber (4:43)
- Muirland Willie (3:46)
- Moc Donogh’s lamentation (4:11)
- The Wawking of the faulds – I wish I wou’d marry me – An Caora crom – Ratha fair – Haud the lass till I come at her – Clean Peas Stræ (5:32)
