34 songs from the famous Songs of the Hebrides collection by Marjory Kennedy-Fraser published in the early years of this century. There are some extraordinarily beautiful songs here (Ernest Newman wrote of them that Schubert and Hugo Wolf would have knelt and kissed the hands of their unknown composers). The most famous song in the collection is the Eriskay Love Lilt but several of the others will be familiar to anybody who has bought our Bantock recordings: Sea Longing was the inspiration for the slow movement of the Celtic Symphony, and Kishmul's Galley is the tune blazed out by the Royal Philharmonic horns at the end of the Hebridean Symphony.

Contents:

Land of Heart's Desire  [2'35]  arr. Marjorie Kennedy-Fraser

An Eriskay love lilt  Vair me o rovan o, vair me o rovan ee  [2'15]  arr. Marjorie Kennedy-Fraser

Loch Broom Love Song  Lad and lass thegither  [1'46]  arr. Marjorie Kennedy-Fraser

Loch Leven Love Lament  [2'16]  arr. Marjorie Kennedy-Frase

Caristiona  [2'41]  arr. Marjorie Kennedy-Fraser

An Eriskay Lullaby  My babe on a curling green wave  [2'50]  arr. Marjorie Kennedy-Fraser

Kirsteen  Who will walk with thee, Kirsteen  [1'27]  arr. Marjorie Kennedy-Fraser

A Thirteenth-century Love Lilt  [2'06]  arr. Marjorie Kennedy-Fraser

Benbecula Bridal Procession  [2'09]  arr. Marjorie Kennedy-Fraser

The Witchery Milking Croon  [1'13]  arr. Marjorie Kennedy-Fraser

The Uncanny Mannikin of the Cattlefold  Late at night alone in the sheiling  [2'20]  arr. Marjorie Kennedy-Fraser

Skye Water-Kelpie's Lullaby  [3'01]  arr. Marjorie Kennedy-Fraser

The Harper  [1'55]  arr. Marjorie Kennedy-Fraser

The cockle gatherer  I dal a du vil, I dal a du ho ro  [1'16]  arr. Marjorie Kennedy-Fraser

Birds at the Fairy Fulling  [1'04]  arr. Marjorie Kennedy-Fraser

Uist Cattle Croon  [2'04]  arr. Marjorie Kennedy-Fraser

The Crone's Creel  Aye, my lad, I've borne my creel  [1'22]  arr. Marjorie Kennedy-Fraser

Islay Reaper's Song  A day in the cornfield, I a-reapin'  [2'02]  arr. Marjorie Kennedy-Fraser

A Spinning Song  Love gave I to thee, my lover  [2'18]  arr. Marjorie Kennedy-Fraser

The Ship at Sea  Far I hear the galloping galley  [1'41]  arr. Marjorie Kennedy-Fraser

Sea Wandering  Sailing with thee thro' seas of Erin  [1'42]  arr. Marjorie Kennedy-Fraser

Sea-longing  Sore sea-longing in my heart  [2'33]  arr. Marjorie Kennedy-Fraser & Sir Granville Bantock

The Reiving Ship  A ho hi … hirrum bo! Early sails she to the reiving  [2'01]  arr. Marjorie Kennedy-Fraser

The Birlinn of the White Shoulders  Out at sea, fair is she  [2'51]  arr. Marjorie Kennedy-Fraser & Sir Granville Bantock

Heart of Fire-love  [1'48]  arr. Marjorie Kennedy-Fraser

The Coolin of Rhum  O Brighde! 'Tis seaward, the dreamland, the youth land  [1'39]  arr. Marjorie Kennedy-Fraser

The Leaping Galley  In pride, high, leapest thou  [1'37]  arr. Marjorie Kennedy-Fraser

Isle of my Heart  As down by the shore I wander early at morn  [3'29]  arr. Marjorie Kennedy-Fraser

Kishmul's Galley  [2'21]  arr. Marjorie Kennedy-Fraser

Sleeps the noon in the deep blue sky  [2'15]  arr. Marjorie Kennedy-Fraser

The Wild Swan  [1'46]  arr. Marjorie Kennedy-Fraser

The Black Loorgin 'A Hedridean Seafaring Song'  [2'07]  arr. Marjorie Kennedy-Fraser

Dance to your shadow  [1'27]  arr. Marjorie Kennedy-Fraser

Aignish on the machair  [2'35]  arr. Marjorie Kennedy-Fraser