Composer: Malcolm Henry Arnold, Granville Bantock, Arthur Blake, Eric Coates, Robert Docker, Hamish MacCunn, Alexander McKenzie, Felix Mendelssohn, Iain Sutherland, Ernest Tomlinson, Ian Whyte, Roy Williamson
Orchestra: City of Glasgow Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Iain Sutherland
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Somm
Catalogue: ARIADNE5014
Release: 2022
Size: 815 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. trad.: The Black Bear Salute
02. Docker: Abbey Craig (Scots Wha Hae)
03. Tomlinson: Cumberland Square
04. Coates: Elizabeth of Glamis
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 56 ‘Scottish’
05. II. Vivace non troppo
06. Blake: Take the High Road: Theme
07. MacCunn: Sutherland’s Law: Theme
08. Docker: Fairy Dance Reel
Sutherland: Three Scottish Castles (Live)
09. No. 1, Stirling Castle. Gateway to the Highlands
10. No. 2, Dunvegan Castle. Isle of Skye
11. No. 3, Edinburgh Castle
12. Mackenzie: Benedictus, Op. 37 No. 3 (Version for Orchestra)
Bantock: Two Heroic Ballads
13. No. 2, Kishmul’s Galley
Arnold: 4 Scottish Dances, Op. 59 (Live)
14. No. 1, Pesante
15. No. 2, Vivace
16. No. 3, Allegretto
17. No. 4, Con brio
18. Williamson: Flower of Scotland
19. trad.: Amazing Grace
Whyte: Donald of the Burthens (Live)
20. Scene II, Devil’s Finale
SOMM Recordings is delighted to release Hail Caledonia – Scotland in Music, a musical salute to their homeland by conductor Iain Sutherland and the City of Glasgow Philharmonic Orchestra. Recorded live in Glasgow’s Royal Concert Hall in 1995-96 and newly remastered, these vivacious performances also feature the City of Glasgow Pipe Band, City of Glasgow Chorus, and bagpipers David Wotherspoon and Iain McDonald. Sutherland provides brilliant orchestral arrangements of The Black Bear Salute, reputedly the British army’s fastest regimental march, and the timeless Amazing Grace, together with his own colourful Three Scottish Castles Suite. Roy Williamson’s anthemic Flower of Scotland is heard alongside Robert Docker’s Abbey’s Craig, better known as Scots Wha Hae, and Granville Bantock’s luscious treatment of a traditional Scottish waulking song, Kishmul’s Galley. Also featured is Mendelssohn’s lively Scherzo, fuelled by a traditional ‘Scotch snap’, from his Scottish Symphony and Malcolm Arnold’s wonderfully realised Four Scottish Dances.
Music by Granville Bantock, Eric Coates, Ernest Tomlinson and Alexander McKenzie is heard alongside the theme tunes to two hugely popular Scottish television dramas, Hamish McCunn’s Land of the Mountain and the Flood, theme to Sutherland’s Law, and Arthur Blake’s Take the High Road. And to end, the infectious Devil’s Finale/Reel o’ Tulloch from Ian Whyte’s ballet score Donald of the Burthens. The result is a glorious musical celebration of the Saltire and the tartan, with informative booklet notes by Robert Matthew-Walker. Iain Sutherland’s previous SOMM releases include two volumes of Great Classic Film Music, the first a Classic FM Album of the Week (Ariadne 5006/5009), Musical Opinion’s ‘fully recommended’ Leonard Bernstein: Broadway to Hollywood (Ariadne 5002), the enthusiastically received Favourite Orchestral Classics (Ariadne 5012) and In London Town (SOMMCD 0117), which MusicWeb International hailed for its ‘sparkling performances of some of the cream of light music’.