Land of heart's desire. [sound recording]

By: Contributor(s): Material type: MusicMusicPublisher number: CDA66988 | HyperionSpoken language: Scottish Gaelic, English Publication details: London : Hyperion, 1997Description: 1 audio disc (72:15) : digital, stereo ; 12 cm, 27 page bookletSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 20 CD 782.421629163 ANON
LOC classification:
  • M1746.M55 L36 1997
Contents:
Land of heart's desire (2:35) -- Love songs and laments, lullabies and a wedding song. An Eriskay love lilt (2:15) ; Loch Broom love song (1:46) ; Loch Leven love lament (2:16) ; Caristiona (2:41) ; An Eriskay lullaby (2:50) ; Kirsteen (1:27) ; A thirteenth-century love lilt (2:06) ; Benbecula bridal procession (2:09) -- Songs of the supernatural. The witchery milking croon (1:13) ; The uncanny mannikin of the cattlefold (2:20) ; Skye water-kelpie's lullaby (3:01) ; The harper (1:55) -- Work songs. The cockle gatherer (1:16) ; Birds at the fairy fulling (1:04) ; Uist cattle croon (2:04) ; The crone's creel (1:22) ; Islay reaper's song (2:02) ; A spinning song (2:18) -- Seafaring and sea-rapture songs. The ship at sea (1:41) ; Sea wandering (1:42) ; Sea-longing (2:33) ; The reiving ship (2:01) ; The birlinn of the white shoulders (2:51) ; Heart of fire-love (1:48) ; The Coolin of Rhum (1:39) ; The leaping galley (1:37) ; Isle of my heart (3:29) ; Kishmul's galley (2:21) ; Sleeps the noon in the deep blue sky (2:15) ; The wild swan (1:46) ; The black loorgin (A Hebridean seafaring song) (2:07) -- Mouth music and valediction. Dance to your shadow (1:27) ; Aignish on the Machair (2:35). Lisa Milne, soprano ; Sioned Williams, harp. Lisa Milne, soprano ; Sioned Williams, harp.
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From the collection by Marjory Kennedy-Fraser and Kenneth Macleod, arranged for voice and pianoforte. Texts with English translations and program notes by Ted Perry (27 pages : ill.) inserted in container.

Land of heart's desire (2:35) -- Love songs and laments, lullabies and a wedding song. An Eriskay love lilt (2:15) ; Loch Broom love song (1:46) ; Loch Leven love lament (2:16) ; Caristiona (2:41) ; An Eriskay lullaby (2:50) ; Kirsteen (1:27) ; A thirteenth-century love lilt (2:06) ; Benbecula bridal procession (2:09) -- Songs of the supernatural. The witchery milking croon (1:13) ; The uncanny mannikin of the cattlefold (2:20) ; Skye water-kelpie's lullaby (3:01) ; The harper (1:55) -- Work songs. The cockle gatherer (1:16) ; Birds at the fairy fulling (1:04) ; Uist cattle croon (2:04) ; The crone's creel (1:22) ; Islay reaper's song (2:02) ; A spinning song (2:18) -- Seafaring and sea-rapture songs. The ship at sea (1:41) ; Sea wandering (1:42) ; Sea-longing (2:33) ; The reiving ship (2:01) ; The birlinn of the white shoulders (2:51) ; Heart of fire-love (1:48) ; The Coolin of Rhum (1:39) ; The leaping galley (1:37) ; Isle of my heart (3:29) ; Kishmul's galley (2:21) ; Sleeps the noon in the deep blue sky (2:15) ; The wild swan (1:46) ; The black loorgin (A Hebridean seafaring song) (2:07) -- Mouth music and valediction. Dance to your shadow (1:27) ; Aignish on the Machair (2:35). Lisa Milne, soprano ; Sioned Williams, harp. Lisa Milne, soprano ; Sioned Williams, harp.

Sung in Scottish Gaelic and English.

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