Artist:James MacMillan, Scottish Festival Orchestra & Trevor Morrison
Title: The Lost Songs of St Kilda
Year Of Release: 2016
Label: Decca Records
Genre: Classical
Quality: 320 / FLAC (tracks.cue.log)
Total Time: 48:49
Total Size: 180 / 264 Mb
WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist:
01 – Trevor Morrison – Hirta
02 – Trevor Morrison – Soay
03 – Trevor Morrison – Boreray
04 – Trevor Morrison – Dùn
05 – Trevor Morrison – Stac an Armin
06 – Trevor Morrison – Stac Lee
07 – Trevor Morrison – Levenish
08 – Trevor Morrison – Stac Dona
James MacMillan and Scottish Festival Orchestra
09 – Soay (arr. Rebecca Dale)
10 – Stac Lee (Dawn , arr. Craig Armstrong)
11 – Stac Lee (Dusk , arr. Craig Armstrong)
12 – Stac Dona (arr. Christopher Duncan)
13 – Dùn (arr. Francis Macdonald)
James MacMillan, Scottish Festival Orchestra and Trevor Morrison
14 – Hirta (arr. James MacMillan)
James MacMillan travels to St Kilda to play the traditional music that was so nearly lost forever
It’s an extraordinary story. Trevor Morrison was the last person alive who knew the traditional music of the tiny Scottish Island of St Kilda, the inhabitants of which were forced to evacuate the island in 1930, leaving it uninhabited. Morrison recorded the music at a care home in 2006, music that otherwise would have been lost forever. He had been taught the pieces by his piano teacher, who was originally from St Kilda. His teacher would place Trevor’s hands over his own as he played in order to teach him the music.
Now those haunting recordings by Morrison, who died in 2012, have been released alongside orchestral arrangements of the music by composers including James MacMillan (who also conducts on the album), Craig Armstrong, Rebecca Dale, Francis Macdonald and Christopher Duncan. In the video below, James MacMillan travels with a piano! to St Kilda to play this precious music
