Songs from Scotland

• Villanelle de Noël - the legend of how the robin got its red breast, attempting to wrest the nail from Christ's hand: 2m 00s. SATB
• The puddock - a Scots fable about an over-confident frog: 1m 30s. SATB
• Two quite different arrangements of the Eriskay love lilt, for SSAA voices (3m 00s) and for SATB (2m 30s).
• Fhir a'bhata - a young woman wonders, in a poignant and beautiful melody, whether the boatman she loves will ever return: 4m 00s. SATB
• Rare Willy drowned in Yarrow - traditional Scots ballad: 2m 00s. SSA
• Five Scottish songs for SATB with piano, by Canadian composer Alasdair MacLean. 11m00s.
• Three SATB sets of puirt-a-beul (mouth music): 4m 20s : 3m 00s : 3m 30s
• Oh! Why left I my hame? - an emigrant's lament for the homeland left behind: 3m 45s. SATB
• Duan Nollaig - traditional Gaelic Christmas song, alternating beautiful devotional verses with a rowdy chorus: 1m 30s. S, A, T/B
• Three beautiful poems by Marion Angus (5m 00s. SATB) set by Frances Cockburn, and three by Helen Cruickshank (6m 00s. SATB) set by Michael Buck.
• Dream Angus - a beautiful traditional lullaby: 2m 30s. SATB
• Gaol mo chridh-sa Màiri Bhàn (Mairi's wedding; the Lewis bridal song): 2m 10s. SATB. Also available with English lyrics.
• Balulalow - a lullaby to the infant Christ, in 16th-century Scots: 3m 40s. SATB
• Taladh Chriosda - a gorgeous, gentle, song of adoration to the baby Jesus: 3m 30s. S, A, T/B
• Aurora rutilat - based on a 14th-century plainchant hymn from the Inchcolm Antiphoner: 3m 20s. SATB or SATB with 2-part children's chorus
• Minnie O'Shirva's Cradle Song - traditional Shetland lullaby: 2m 00s. SATB or SSAA
• He mandu - traditional Gaelic waulking song: 1m 45s. SATB
• A prayer for peace - words based on the Scottish Psalter of 1650: 3m 00s. SAB and organ
• and some favourite Robert Burns songs:
  Green grow the rushes, O: 2m 30s. SATB with piano
  Ae fond kiss: 3m 00s. SATB voicing, or SSAA
  A man's a man for a' that : 3m 00s. SAB
  Auld lang syne: 4m 00s. SATB
  Ay waukin' O: 2m 40s. SATB
  Let me in this ae night (“O lassie are ye sleepin yet”): 2m 30s. SSA or TBB
  Go on, sweet bird: 1m 40s. SATB with descant
  Lassie, lie near me: 2m 00s. TTBB
  My love is like a red, red rose: 3m 00s. SATB with tenor solo
  The winter it is past: 2m 30s. SATB