Mhairi Lawson : Rab the Rhymer : Poems & Songs of Robert Burns : a 250th Birthday Celebration
Genre: Folk & Traditional
Label: rhymescheme
Released: 2009
Performed by two husband-and-wife teams - acclaimed actors David Rintoul and Vivien Heilbron, and eminent musicians Mhairi Lawson and Adrian Chandler - the CD presents not only Burns's greatest hits, but also a selection of his lesser-known, yet fascinating works. Together these provide a comprehensive overview of his prodigious and versatile genius.
Divided into four thematic sections ('Love', 'Of Mice & Men', 'Off to War' and 'Food & Drink'), there's favourites like "A Red, Red Rose", "To A Mouse", "Tam O'Shanter" and "Ae Fond Kiss", interspersed with less familiar poems and songs such as "Rattlin' Roarin' Willie", "The Slave's Lament" and Burns's philosophy of poetry summarized in the three "Epistle to J. Lapraik".
Rousing performances of "Address To a Haggis", "Scotch Drink" and "Auld Lang Syne" will help any party go with a bang, as will the detailed sleeve notes on how to throw your own Burns Supper. A comprehensive Burns biography is also included in the full-colour booklet.
"Rab the Rhymer" is released on January 25th 2009 by rhymescheme records
Tracklist
- Part One : LOVE
- A Red, Red Rose
- News, Lassies, News
- Mary Morrison
- The White Cockade
- Jame Come Try Me
- The Rigs o' Barley
- Wha is that at My Bower-Door?
- A Poet's Welcome tae his Bastart Wean
- Fine Flowers in the Valley
- What can a Young Lassie do wi' an Auld Man?
- John Anderson, My Jo
- Sweet Afton
- The Banks o' Doon
- Interlude - The Art of Poetry: Epistle to J Lapraik, Part 1
- Part Two : OF MICE & MEN
- To a Mouse
- Is There for Honest Poverty (For A' That)
- The Slave's Lament
- Holy Willie's Prayer
- Inerlude - The Art of Poetry: Epistle to J. Lapraik, Part 2
- Part Three : OFF TO WAR
- Robert Bruce's March to Bannock burn (Scots Wha Hae)
- Ae fond Kiss, and Then We Sever
- I Hae Been at Crookieden
- O Kenmure's On and Awa', Willie
- Ye Jacobites by Name
- A mother's lament for the death of her Son
- Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation
- Ca' the Ewes to the Knowes
- Interlude - The Art of Poetry: Epistle to J.Lapraik, Park 3
- Part Four : FOOD & DRINK
- Address to a Haggis
- Rattlin' Roarin' Willie
- Scotch Drink
- Tam o' Shanter
- Auld lang syne
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