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Jamie and Billy's Burns Night In

Around the World in Fourteen Toasts: A celebration of Robert Burns in music and verse.

Jamie and Billy raise a glass to Burns' musical influence around the world, asking why composers from 17th century Italy to present-day Estonia have turned to his writing for inspiration.

This man of the people who was claimed as a hero by both Stalin and Abraham Lincoln has an enormously wide-ranging musical legacy, and by weaving readings of poems in and out of the music they inspired, Jamie and Billy bring to life the global connections between the bard and his musicians.

The programme includes a new reading of Tam O Shanter, marrying the dramatic music of Malcolm Arnold to the text for the first time; and a combining of the Gettysburg address with "Here's a health to them that's awa" and the music of Roy Harris.

1 hour, 55 minutes

Last on

Sun 23 Jan 2011 17:05
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio Scotland

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Music Played

  • Francesco Geminiani

    The Broom of Cowdenknows; Bonny Christy

    Artist: Concerto Caledonia

  • Jamie MacDougall

    The Red Red Rose

    Composer: Pietro Urbani Artist: Concerto Caledonia Artist: David McGuinness

  • James Rhodes

    La fille aux cheveux de lin

    Artist: Stephen Osborne

  • Mr. McFall’s Chamber

    Sic A Parcel O'Rogues

    Composer: Robert Burns

  • Max Bruch

    Scottish Fantasy, Finale

    Artist: Rachel Barton Pine Artist: Scottish Chamber Orchestra Artist: Alexander Platt

  • Joseph Haydn

    My Love's a winsome wee thing

    Artist: Jamie MacDougall Artist: Haydn Trio Eisenstadt

  • Georgy Sviridov

    Chestnaya Bednst [Honest Poverty]

    Artist: Vassily Savenko Artist: Alexander Blok

  • Roy Harris

    Symphony No. 6 'Gettysburg', mvt 1 'Awakening'

    Artist: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Artist: Marin Alsop

  • Eva Cassidy

    My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose

    Composer: Burns / Trad.

  • Robert Burns

    I Love My Love in Secret

    Artist: Meredith Hall Artist: La Nef

  • Arvo PΓ¤rt

    My Heart's in the Highlands

    Artist: Laudibus Artist: Mike Brewer

  • Sir Alexander Campbell Mackenzie

    Burns - Second Scotch Rhapsody

    Artist: Martyn Brabbins Artist: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Scottish Symphony Orchestra

  • Ella Logan

    Hold Your Glasses With Your Bottoms Up

    Composer: Friend/White

  • Ella Logan

    Loch Lomond

    Composer: Trad.

  • Lerner & Loewe

    Brigadoon

    Artist: The M-G-M Studio Chorus

  • Gene Kelly

    Almost Like Being In Love

    Composer: Lernern & Loewe

  • Malcolm Arnold

    Tam O'Shanter

    Artist: Sir Alexander Gibson Artist: The Royal Scottish National Orchestra

  • Burns - Auld Lang Syne

    Artist: Ronnie Browne

Broadcast

  • Sun 23 Jan 2011 17:05
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio Scotland