Scottish Reflections

Scottish Reflections

Editorial Reviews
Celtic Connection, October,2002
Stunning solos and ensemble playing...the music is reflective, poignant and plumbs the depths of Celtica.

Product Description
Scottish instrumental music featuring Bonnie Rideout & Maggie's Music artists.One of the finest Scottish fiddlers of our time, Bonnie Rideout brings her passion and joyous energy to every track, from over 10 years of musical collaboration with other top artists on the Maggie's Music record label. Bonnie's unique style of fiddling has charmed audiences with a vast array of dance tunes, bagpipe marches and ancient Gaelic melodies on stages from Scotland's Edinburgh International Festival to America's Kennedy Center.This album represents musicians sharing their talents within a close Celtic community that is as small as your living room and as large as the world.

Scottish Reflections

Tracks:

MacDonald of the Isles March to Harlaw / Source of the Spey/ The Periwig
Seal Songs
The Thistle
Dunblane Charlie Glendinning
Unst Bridal March
Lamentation for the Fallen Heroes of Waterloo
Itchy Fingers
Cro Kintaile
The Highland Laddie
The Highland Laddie: variations
Lament For Limerick/ Lochaber No More/ Irish Lamentation
Gloomy Winter
St. Kilda Air/Jenny Nettles/St. Kilda Reel
Minstrel of MacDonalds

Album Description

Scottish instrumental music featuring Bonnie Rideout & Maggie's Music artists.One of the finest Scottish fiddlers of our time, Bonnie Rideout brings her passion and joyous energy to every track, from over 10 years of musical collaboration with other top artists on the Maggie's Music record label. Bonnie's unique style of fiddling has charmed audiences with a vast array of dance tunes, bagpipe marches and ancient Gaelic melodies on stages from Scotland's Edinburgh International Festival to America's Kennedy Center.This album represents musicians sharing their talents within a close Celtic community that is as small as your living room and as large as the world.

Customer Reviews:

Let's Clarify.......2005-12-03

For future reference Di and others:
I quote:
"'Scottish Reflections' the music included consists of early Scotch, English, and Irish folk tunes."

Scotch is what you drink
A Scot, or Scottish, is what you are.

The only exception is the 'Scotch-Irish' in the U.S., this is the Traditional name for the Scots who moved to Ireland, then moved to the southern U.S. states.

Okay, I'm done ranting.
This CD is extremely good, The bonnie wee lassie, Bonnie Ridout can play a fiddle like nae other. She does our Celtic tunes proud!

Sad tunes...........2002-12-07

Although this DVD collection is entitled `Scottish Reflections' the music included consists of early Scotch, English, and Irish folk tunes. All of the tunes appear to have been included in earlier DVD collections by Rideout. Gathered together, they form a haunting tribute to lost loved ones and past times.

Many of the pieces are viscerally connected to the early 19th Century when the British were battling Napoleon. Pieces such as `The Source of Spey' and `Periwig were dance tunes published in the Captain Simon Fraser Collection of 1815. `Lamentation for the Fallen Heroes at Waterloo' provides a haunting retrospective of the definitive battle. It takes little imagination to visualize sailors dancing to fiddle tunes such as `Itchy Fingers' or `Highland Laddie' (accompanied by a penny whistle), or soldiers sitting around camp fires at night contemplating home life and the chances of death while listening to `Lament for Limerick' (Ireland) or `Lochaber No More' (Scotland). Even the waltzes such as `Irish Lamentation' (England) are retrospective and `Gloomy Winter' says it all. A more recent piece, `Dunblane', by Charlie Glendinning commemorates the deaths of 16 school children and their teacher in 1996.

Using varied bowing techniques, Bonnie Rideout has created a set of poignant renditions of old and new tunes. National Sottish Harp Champion Sue Richards joins Rideout for several of these pieces, including `Unst Bridal March', `Cro Kintale' and the various lamentations. Perfect music for contemplation on a snowy winter's eve.

a must to add to any scottish music collection.......2002-08-30

This CD really fits the bill for beautiful and heartfelt scottish fiddle music. It's a must to add to my Scottish music collection. The fiddle playing shines throughout and is clearly out front of all the instruments yet the other instruments create beautiful harmonies and variations with the fiddle. The music on this Cd features Bonnie Rideout's fiddling in performances that have interesting arrangements with a lot of variety to them because of all the other instruments. Its music that many Bonnie Rideout fans and Scottish music fans might miss out because the CD features tracks from other outstanding Celtic musicians and early music musicians that are not usually associated with Scottish music. Its a gem!

divine and elegant.......2002-08-16

Wow, this is a wonderful CD and is a nice follow up to her other solo albums such as her last one called Scottish Fire. This one is a little more relaxed and easy listening- good after a long hard day of work or good for a long car trip too. It's got real nice group ensemble playing with Celtic harp and viola da gamba and also tts a MUST HAVE to just add to your Celtic collection of CDs or if you are a Bonnie Rideout fan. It's got some very fine arrangements and great tunes on it and the Scottish fiddle is really featured well and stands out clearly from the other instruments yet blends with them too. The original tune called "dunblane" written by Charlie Glendinning, a piper from the City of Washington Pipe Band is so moving it makes you cry and yet there are lively tunes too and a variety of sounds and unusual instruments played by members of the early music group Hesperus. The liner notes are very informative about some of the tunes and the use of Scottish fiddle and ornamentation and the bagpipe traditions.

Average customer rating:

Celtic Reflections
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Topic Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

British Folk | Traditional British & Celtic Folk | Folk | Styles | Music

Irish Folk | Traditional British & Celtic Folk | Folk | Styles | Music

Scottish Folk | Traditional British & Celtic Folk | Folk | Styles | Music

Celtic Folk | Traditional British & Celtic Folk | Folk | Styles | Music

Revival | Folk | Styles | Music

General | International | Styles | Music

General | Celtic | International | Styles | Music

General | International | Indie Music | Stores | Music
ASIN: B00000AF5S
Release Date: 1998-09-15

Tracks:

Humours of the King of Ballyhooley - Andy Irvine, Patrick Street
Sto Chro Sean Mac Donnchadha
Blackwaterside - Ron Kavana
Traveller All over the World - Frank Harte
Raggle Taggle Gypsy - John Reilly
P for Paddy - Irish Country Four
Rollicking Boys of Tandaragee - Paddy Tunney
Bucket of the Mountain Dew - McPeake Family
Bean an Leanna (The Woman With the Beer) - Joe Heaney
Wind That Shakes the Barley - Sarah Makem
Song of the Riddles - Willie Clancy
Sgeilpin Droighneach (The Thorny Ledge)
Maid on the Shore - John Lyons
Lake of Coolfin - Tom Lenihan
John Rielly
Green Fields of America - Len Graham
High on a Mountain

Tracks:

Erin Go Bragh - Dick Gaughan
For A' That and A' That - The Exiles
Fire in the Glen - Phil Cunningham, Manus Lunny, Andy M. Stewart
My Last Farewell to Stirling - The Battlefield Band
MacCrimmon's Lament - Jeannie Robertson
Wi' My Rovin' Eye - Norman Kennedy
Will Ye Gang, Love? - Archie Fisher
Corncrake - Sylvia Barnes, Kentigern
Cruel Mither - Ian Campbell
Maid of Glenshee - Lizzie Higgins
Sweet Kumadee - Ian Manuel
Norland Wind - Cilla Fisher, Artie Trezise
Freedom Come-All-Ye - The Exiles
Gillie Mor - Dick Gaughan
Bawbie Allan - Clutha, Gordeanna McCulloch
Will Ye No Come Back Again? - Ewan MacColl

Tracks:

Mary of Murroe/The Green Gates - Felix Doran
Gypsy Laddies - Jeannie Robertson
Well Below the Valley - John Reilly
Templehouse/Over the Motor to Maggie - Willie Clancy
I Will Lay Ye Doon Love - The Exiles
Mainistr Na Buille - Sean Mac Donnchadha
Braton Tunes/Greenwoodside - Kentigern
Cruel Brother - Gaugers
Barbara Allen - Sarah Makem
Dispute at the Crossroads - Johnny Doherty
MacCrimmon's Lament - Ian Manuel
Craigie Hill - Paddy Tunney
Return of Spring/The Mountain Pathway
Bean an Leanna (The Woman With the Beer) - Joe Heaney
Queen Among the Heather - Belle Stewart
Wha's Fu - Clutha
Happy to Meet and Sorry to Part - Seamus Ennis

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Bill Garden's Reflections of Scotland
Bill Garden
Manufacturer: Scotdisc
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Scottish Folk | Traditional British & Celtic Folk | Folk | Styles | Music

General | International | Styles | Music

General | Celtic | International | Styles | Music

General | International | Indie Music | Stores | Music
ASIN: B00004RD28
Release Date: 2000-03-14

Tracks:

Bunessan
Homeland
Tobermory Bay
Highland Cathedral
The Cuillin's Of Skye
Skye Boat Song
Reeltime: Bobby Gardiner's Favourite/Jackie Coleman's Reel/Teetotallers Reel/Ryan's Rant
Ae Fond Kiss
Scot's Wha Hae
The Old Rugged Cross
The Dark Island
The Island Of Tiree
Otem
Rannoch Moor
Amazing Grace
Glencoe Sunset

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