Concerto Caledonia: Airs Minuets Gavotts & Reels - COMPACT DISCS

Concerto Caledonia: Airs Minuets Gavotts & Reels - COMPACT DISCSTitle: Airs Minuets Gavotts & Reels Artist: Concerto Caledonia Label: Delphian Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 801918341281 Genre: Classical Release Date: 2013 08 13 Number of Discs: 1 A chamber scale Concerto Caledonia bring to life a key figure from the Golden Age of Scottish fiddling, when the publishing of fiddle music books was in full spate and the familiar forms of strathspey, reel and jig were still taking shape. 'Red Rob' Mackintosh, named

Title: Airs Minuets Gavotts & Reels
Artist: Concerto Caledonia
Label: Delphian
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 801918341281
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2013-08-13
Number of Discs: 1

A chamber-scale Concerto Caledonia bring to life a key figure from the Golden Age of Scottish fiddling, when the publishing of fiddle music books was in full spate and the familiar forms of strathspey, reel and jig were still taking shape. 'Red Rob' Mackintosh, named in the customary Gaelic fashion after the color of his hair, found himself a place in the orchestra of the Edinburgh Musical Society and set up business as a teacher. Airs, Minuets, Gavotts and Reels (1783) was his first collection, published the year before his ill-fated move to Aberdeen, and it represents his desire both to understand the musical world around him as fully as possible and to forge himself a career within it. The Davids Greenberg and McGuinness, Greg Lawson and Alison McGillivray shed light on an age when, not yet 'traditional', such dance genres still bore the imprint of their individual composers.

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