Ramsay: The Gentle Shepherd

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Label
Olde Focus Recordings
Release Date
March 7, 2025
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Allan Ramsay
    • PERFORMER
      Makaris, Fiona Gillespie, Corey Shotwell, Madeline Healey, Bradley King, Benjamin Matus, Caitlin Hed
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      March 07, 2025
    • UPC
      767223520080
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      FCR924
    • LABEL
      Olde Focus Recordings
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Baroque Era
    Works ⌄

    1. Act I Scene 1: Sang I: The wawking of the Faulds (Narrator, Patie)

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Makaris

      Performer: David Jock Nicol, Corey Shotwell

    2. Act I Scene 1: Sang II: Fy gar rub her o'er with Strae (Patie)

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Makaris

      Performer: Corey Shotwell

    3. Act I Scene 2: Sang III: Polwart on the Green (Narrator, Peggy)

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Makaris

      Performer: David Jock Nicol, Fiona Gillespie

    4. Act I Scene 2: Sang IV: O dear Mother, what shall I do? (Jenny)

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Makaris

      Performer: Madeline Healey

    5. When she cam ben she bobed

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Makaris

    6. Act I Scene 2: Sang V: How can I be sad on my Wedding-Day (Peggy)

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Makaris

      Performer: Fiona Gillespie

    7. Act I Scene 2: Sang VI: Nansy's to the Green Wood gane (Jenny)

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Makaris

      Performer: Madeline Healey

    8. Act II Scene 1: Sang VII: Cald Kale in Aberdeen (Narrator, Glaud)

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Makaris

      Performer: David Jock Nicol, Harrison Hintzsche

    9. Act II Scene 1: Sang VIII: Mucking of Geordy's Byer (Symon)

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Makaris

      Performer: Tracy Cowart

    10. Act II Scene 3: Sang IX: Carle an the King come (Narrator, Mause)

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Makaris

      Performer: David Jock Nicol, Caitlin Hedge

    11. Sheebeg and Sheemore: Planxty Lady Wrixon (Narrator)

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Makaris

      Performer: David Jock Nicol

    12. Act II Scene 4: Sang X: Winter was cauld, and my Cleathing was thin (The yellow hair'd Laddie) (Peggy, Patie)

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Makaris

      Performer: Fiona Gillespie, Corey Shotwell

    13. Act II Scene 4: Sang XI: By the delicious Warmness of thy Mouth (Patie, Peggy)

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Makaris

      Performer: Corey Shotwell, Fiona Gillespie

    14. Act III Scene 1: Sang XII: Happy Clown (Narrator, Sir William)

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Makaris

      Performer: David Jock Nicol, Bradley King

    15. Plea Rarkeh na Rourkough

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Makaris

    16. Act III Scene 3: Sang XIII: Leith-Wynd (Narrator, Jenny, Roger)

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Makaris

      Performer: David Jock Nicol, Madeline Healey, Brian Giebler

    17. Act III Scene 3: Sang XIV: O'er Bogie (Jenny)

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Makaris

      Performer: Madeline Healey

    18. Act III Scene 4: Sang XV: Wat ye wha I met Yestreen (Sir William)

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Makaris

      Performer: Bradley King

    19. Act IV Scene 1: Sang XVa: (Jocky said to Jenny): Enter Bauldy Singing (Bauldy, Mause)

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Makaris

      Performer: Ben Matus, Caitlin Hedge

    20. Stool of Repentance: Lady Doll Sinclair's Reel

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Makaris

    21. Act IV Scene 2: Sang XVI: Kirk wad let me be (Narrator, Patie)

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Makaris

      Performer: David Jock Nicol, Fiona Gillespie

    22. Act IV Scene 2: Sang XVII: Woes my Heart that we shou'd sunder (Peggy)

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Makaris

      Performer: Fiona Gillespie

    23. Act IV Scene 2: Sang XVIII: Tweed-side (Peggy)

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Makaris

      Performer: Fiona Gillespie

    24. Act IV Scene 2: Sang XIX: Bush aboon Traquair (Peggy)

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Makaris

      Performer: Fiona Gillespie

    25. Bony Christy

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Makaris

    26. Act V Scene 1: Sang XX: Bony gray ey'd Morn (Sir William)

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Makaris

      Performer: Bradley King

    27. Act V Scene 2: Sang XXI: Corn Riggs are bonny (Peggy, All)

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Makaris

      Performer: Fiona Gillespie, Caitlin Hedge, Madeline Healey, Tracy Cowart, Brian Giebler, Bradley King, Corey Shotwell, Ben Matus, Harrison Hintzsche


The first Scottish opera. The first ballad opera. A pastoral masterpiece which was ubiquitous on London and Edinburgh stages throughout the eighteenth century. Allan Ramsay's "The Gentle Shepherd" is perhaps the most important work from the British Isles that you've never heard of! Peasants Peggy and Patie plan to wed, but when their liege Sir William Worthy returns from fighting for a noble cause, he upends their lives by revealing Patie's birthright. Will true love prevail? Brilliantly realized by Makaris-specialists in the music of galant-era Scotland-"The Gentle Shepherd" finally receives it's first recording in 2025, on the 300th anniversary of it's initial publication.