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In Scotland we are fortunate to enjoy a living oral tradition which features the performance of lengthy ballads to simple melodies in a manner which would certainly have been recognisable to our forebears in previous centuries, and it seems sensible to draw on this tradition when reconstructing a performance of 'Graysteil.' This cross-fertilisation between the traditional and art music of Scotland also serves helpfullly to undermine our modern habit of catagorising music, an irrelevance which would never even have occurred to James IV or his 'fithelaris'! - D. James Ross

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Foster, S.: Sweetly She Sleeps, My Alice Fair / Norman, C.:

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Includes traditional folksong(s) from barbados. Soloists: Willard White, Graeme McNaught.
Includes traditional folksong(s) from jamaica. Soloists: Willard White, Graeme McNaught.
Includes traditional spiritual(s). Soloists: Willard White, Graeme McNaught.

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Track Listing
1. Battle Cry of Freedom, for voice, chorus & keyboard, The
2. Star-Spangled Banner, The (National Anthem, USA), for orchestra & voice/chorus, ad lib
3. Uncle Sam's Farm
4. Vaillance Polka Militaire
5. Drums and Trumpets
6. Weeping, Sad and Lonely, for voice & keyboard
7. Columbian Quadrilles, The
8. Girl I Left Behind Me, folk song, The
9. Beauregard's Retreat From Shiloh, for narrator, chorus & piano
10. We Are Coming, Father Abraham for voice & piano
11. Kingdom Coming
12. Grafted into the Army
13. Picture on the Wall, The
14. Daniel Webster's Funeral March
15. Tenting On the Old Campground
16. Battle Hymn of the Republic, The ("Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory," words by Julia Ward Howe; music attributed to Steffe)

D.C. Hall's New Concert & Quadrille Band: Kevin M'Dermott (vocals), James H. Johnston (violin), Patrick G. Jordan (viola), Peter H. Bloom (flute, piccolo), Steven Jackson (clarinet), Henry Peyrebrune (acoustic bass).

Recorded at the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy, New York in November and December, 1993. Includes liner notes by Kevin M'Dermott.

On UNION & LIBERTY!, D.C. Hall's New Concert & Quadrille Band performs Northern popular music of the Civil War era on period instruments.

D.C. Hall's New Concert and Quadrille Band: Kevin M'Dermott (tenor); James H. Johnston (violin); Henry Peyrebrune (bass violin); Patrick G. Jordan (viola); Peter H. Bloom (flute); Steven Jackson (clarinet).
Personnel: Patrick G. Jordan (viola); Peter H. Bloom (flute, piccolo); Kevin M'Dermott (tenor saxophone).

Liner Note Author: Kevin M'Dermott.

Recording information: Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy, NY (11/1993-12/1993).

Editors: Kevin M'Dermott; Jonathan Marcus.

Arrangers: Kevin M'Dermott; Patrick G. Jordan; Peter H. Bloom; Moore.

Includes work(s) by various composers. Soloists: Ronn McFarlane, Julianne Baird, Antonin Kubalek.

One of the finest Christmas recordings ever made, this 1994 production by the Baltimore Consort makes a welcome return (complete with a new cover) along with the revival of the Dorian label. Glowing with the high, clear soprano of Custer LaRue and brimming with versatile, virtuoso instrumental work by Mary Anne Ballard (viols, rebec), Mark Cudek (cittern, Baroque guitar, viols, bandora), Larry Lipkis (viol, recorder, gemshorn), Ronn McFarlane (lute), Chris Norman (wooden flutes, pennywhistle), and Webb Wiggins (organ), this program literally lives up to the promise of its title.

Many of these 20 tunes/carols/dances are among the most familiar Christmas standards--Ding dong merrily on high; Greensleeves; Es ist ein' Ros' entsprungen; In dulci jubilo; The Cherry Tree Carol; Tomorrow shall be my dancing day--presented in both vocal/instrumental and strictly instrumental arrangements. But whatever the tune, and however it's presented, the result is invariably engaging, artful, classy, and infinitely repeatable, which means it's perfect for multiple repetitions, whether at Christmas or any other time of year. Chris Norman's flute improvisation on "Es ist ein' Ros' entsprungen" is a classic, and Custer LaRue's rendition of the beautiful "Rorate coeli desuper" is not to be missed. In fact, that last instruction applies to this entire disc. If you're a Christmas music fan (and who isn't?) and you don't already own this CD, you know what you have to do.

-- David Vernier, ClassicsToday.com

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