Pete Clark and The Niel Gow Ensemble - The Birnam Oak [CD]

Pete Clark is not only quite a nifty artist, and a superb fiddler, but also, as this album attests, an excellent composer too. Pete plays here with the Niel Gow Ensemble, presenting their own arrangements of some old Scottish tunes, and some of Pete’s own pieces. The use of a sterling ensemble endows these pieces with an orchestral quality rather than a folky one, yet the music is still quintessentially Scottish. Old tunes, recent compositions, a song of the pearl fishing, and a short suite dedicated to Pete’s local giant, The Birnam Oak.

Pete Clark (Fiddle & Viola); Iain Fraser (Fiddle & Viola); Neil Johnstone (Cello); Erik Knussen (Double Bass); Jim Leighton (Piano); Martin MacLeod (Fiddle) Plus guest Ian MacGregor (Vocals).

1. The Birnam Oak (A Thousand Years, The Acorn, Dunsinane, The Fiddlers, Lament For Old Dunkeld)
2. Miss Sally Hunter Of Thurston, Lady Charlotte Murray's Favourite, Hoddom Castle, The Haddington Assembly, Miss Margaret Brown
3. The House Of Skene
4. Dungarthill, Stranahavie, The Doo's Nest, Birkenburn
5. Strathgary
6. Midwinter, The Thaw
7. The Traveller's Trade (The Music Of Spey)
8. Inverkeithing Bay, The Kingdom Of Fife, The New Brig
9. Altchroskie
10. The Tulliemet Burn, The Dipper, Jerry's Jig
11. Neil Gow's Lament For The Death Of His Second Wife


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