Name: On the Banks of Helicon: Early Music of Scotland
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SKU: 256214
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On the Banks of Helicon

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Album: On the Banks of Helicon: Early Music of Scotland
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Over the hills
2)	Kathryn Oggie, variations for fiddle
3)	In a garden so green
4)	My heartly service (The Pleugh Song)
5)	Scotch Cap (The English Dancing Master, 1651)
6)	Flowers of the Forest
7)	Kilt thy coat, Magge
8)	Canareis
9)	I will not go to bed till I suld die
10)	Jockey loves his Moggy dearly
11)	Our Father God Celestial
12)	Come my children dere
13)	Bankis of Helicon
14)	Prince Edward's Paven
15)	Lyk as the dum solsequium
16)	Scots Marche
17)	Support your servant
18)	My Lord of March Paven
19)	O Lustie May
20)	Doun in yon bank
21)	Branle d'Ecosse
22)	Joy to the person of my love

Album: On the Banks of Helicon: Early Music of Scotland
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Over the hills
2)	Kathryn Oggie, variations for fiddle
3)	In a garden so green
4)	My heartly service (The Pleugh Song)
5)	Scotch Cap (The English Dancing Master, 1651)
6)	Flowers of the Forest
7)	Kilt thy coat, Magge
8)	Canareis
9)	I will not go to bed till I suld die
10)	Jockey loves his Moggy dearly
11)	Our Father God Celestial
12)	Come my children dere
13)	Bankis of Helicon
14)	Prince Edward's Paven
15)	Lyk as the dum solsequium
16)	Scots Marche
17)	Support your servant
18)	My Lord of March Paven
19)	O Lustie May
20)	Doun in yon bank
21)	Branle d'Ecosse
22)	Joy to the person of my love

Performer Notes

Personnel: Custer LaRue (soprano); Alice Kosloski (alto); Howard Bass (bandora); Mark Cudek (cittern, viol); Ronn McFarlane (lute); Mary Anne Ballard (viol, tenor violin, fiddle, drums); Larry Lipkis (viol, tenor violin); Chris Norman (flute).
Liner Note Author: Mary Anne Ballard .
Recording information: Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy, Austria (10/1989).
Editors: Douglas Brown; Katherine A. Dory.
Photographer: Brian M. Levine.
Translator: Silvia Wilson.
Arranger: R. Brown.
The Baltimore Consort has made three albums of early music from the British Isles; this one, which demonstrates the connections between traditional Celtic music and the art music of late Renaissance and early Baroque Scotland, is perhaps the best. The program is, by turns, a joyful romp and a sweet lament, a combination of earthy ballads and elegant parlor dance tunes. Singer Custer LaRue is a delight as always, and here manages a pretty fair Scots burr, but guest artist Edwin George's performances on period bagpipes are especially noteworthy (particularly on the affecting rendition of "Over the Hills and Far Away" that opens the album). Flutist Chris Norman is also a central attraction -- his equal facility with folk and classical idioms has always been a special hallmark of his playing, and that skill is utilized perfectly on this program. Highly recommended. ~ Rick Anderson