folktrax 264 - SONGS OF THE HEBRIDES
Collected
and arranged by Marjory Kennedy-Fraser and Kenneth Macleod sung by Marion Tudge
accompanied by Ines Rempel (piano)
With the exception of two piano arrangements by Granville Bantock, here,
faithfully reproduced, are the songs, part Gaelic and part English, with the
original piano arrangements made by my great-aunt Marjory of the songs collected
by herself and her daughter, Patuffa, in the Outer Islands at the beginning
of the last century. They used an Edison Bell Phonograph and some of their original
recordings are deposited in the Folktrax Archive. Her autobiography is called
"A Life of Song".
THE PEAT FIRE FLAME - WEAVING LILT (A' BHEAIRT-FHIODA) -
SPREADING THE SEA WRACK - 'ILLE RUNAICH (THE HERD LADDIE) - CRONAN BLEOGHAIN
(MILKING CROON) - THE POTATO LIFTIN' ('OR A BHONNAGAN) - ORAN BUANA (A MORAR
REAPER'S SONG) - AN CUILTEAN MARA (THE WEE DOG OF THE SEA) or BY THE ROCKS O'
RODEL - AN NOCHD THA BATA DOL GU CUAN (PUTTING OUT TO SEA) - LAOIDH AN AMADAIN
MHOIR (LAY OF THE GREAT FOOL) or THE GLEN OF SPELLS - THE GRAIL GALLEY (LONG
MO BHRUADAIR) - THE LURE OF THE FAIRY HILL (GILBHINN) - AN T-AINGHEAL DIONA
(THE CORACLE OF St BRENDAN) - MY BROWN HAIRED MAID OF CORNAC (MO NIGHEAN DONN
A CORNAIG) or A TIREE TRAGEDY - THE REIVING RAPTURE (REUBADH NA MARA) - FAOILEAG
TIRE-FO-THUINN (THE SEAGULL OF THE LAND UNDER THE WAVES) - SEA SORROW (AM BRON
MARA) - SEA LONGING (AN IONNDRAINN-MHARA) - CUAN AG EIRIGH (THE SHIP AT SEA)
- NA REUBAIREAN (SEA-REIVER'S SONG)
