Philharmonic Bagpipes

Contents

  1. Eightsome Reels– at every ceilidh dance, this is the showpiece test of stamina for pipers.

  2. Piano Di Sorrento- memories of a sunset in the village of the same name

Suite Ecossaise – an early experiment in the concertante style for highland bagpipes using traditional well-known tunes as themes. The middle movement features the orchestra playing more like a bagpipe than strings.

  1. 1st movement – Andante/Allegro – march/jig

  2. 2nd movement – Allegretto – strathspey

  3. 3rd movement – Allegro – jigs

  1. *Wawel – the castle in Krakow

  2. The Gordon’s Salute– no ‘classical’ pipe album would be complete without a pibroch, the highest form of art music native to the piping world. Close your eyes, abandon time and experience each sound as it happens.

  3. Atholl Highlanders, Cock O’ The North – two popular marches here played as jigs

*Borderpipe concerto – the first ever borderpipe concerto. The outer movements use very well known fiddle themes whilst the slow movement is entirely new. After the introduction, we have a dance with accompaniment. The adagio seeks to integrate pipes and strings in painting a picture of an 18th century character. The last movement is a sonata form jig.  

  1. 1st Movement – March/Allegro

  2. 2nd Movement - adagio/moderato/presto (click to hear sample MP3)

  3. 3rd Movement - allegretto

  4. The Shepherd’s Crook, Highland Harry- two traditional strathspeys

  5. Clumsy Fingers – a popular pastiche arranged for strings and highland pipes, with a touch of Latin colour

  6. *The Gentle Shepherd – originally for smallpipes and harp, this started life as incidental music to the play of the same name by Allan Ramsay

  7. McGuire’s Jig – an Irish jig arranged for smallpipes and strings

  8. O’er The Bows To Ballindalloch, Because He Was A Bonnie Lad – simple and popular strathspeys

  9. Glasgow Police Pipers – a common pipers’ jig arranged for highland pipes and strings

  10. Bengullion  - a traditional march, of the type commonly used to welcome guests.

  11. *The Jolly Duet – a hornpipe and jig composed in 1992 and newly arranged for smallpipes with orchestra.

  12. The Rock And The Wee Pickle Tow – the town tune of Linlithgow

  13. Duncan Howie’s - the central hornpipe* was originally for written as part of a challenge to show the entire traditional gamut of pipe music in one concert. The outer frame is a traditional tune popular among pipers.                                                             

All tracks arranged by Lindsay Davidson using traditional material. Those marked * composed by Lindsay Davidson. 

The bagpipes used here are Scottish smallpipes, borderpipes and Highland bagpipes.  

Please click on track 10, from the borderpipe concerto to download a sample (second movement complete)

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