Robert Burns: The Complete Songs Vol. 5 LINN

The fifth volume from the unique ‘Complete Songs of Robert Burns’ compendium. Includes the tracks A Man’s A Man For A’ That, The lovely lass of Inverness and Glencoe.

The twelve volumes which comprise The Complete Songs of Robert Burns remain the benchmark of all Burns songs recordings. Released to coincide with the worldwide Burns Night celebrations, this is the first volume in the ground breaking series which took seven years to complete and involved over 80 singers and instrumentalists.

This unsurpassed collection was collated by Burns specialist Dr Fred Freeman, who worked in the fluid tradition of folk music with the players and singers to bring the timeless poetry of the Bard vividly to life. The Telegraph described the series as “a marvellous tribute to the man who gave the anonymous feelings of Scots folk song a sharp, poignant individuality, and by doing so made them the whole world’s possession.”

Encompassing ballads and bawdy songs, patriotic and political anthems plus songs which bring Scottish places and people to life, this collection of songs touches on all aspects of human nature and is a true representation of a vigorous folk tradition past and present. The performance practice essential to the authentic performance of Burns is evident: singers, like Tony Cuffe and Billy Ross, and fiddlers, like John Martin and Johnnie Cunningham, perform with light, clear articulation, whilst singers, like Rod Paterson, display admirable ‘restraint’ and almost ‘non-existent’ vibrato. Each musician here shares Burns’ commitment to communication and expression creating both a lasting tribute to the man and to the contemporary folk movement in Scotland.

Featured musicians include members of Battlefield Band, Old Blind Dogs, Ossian, Jock Tamson’s Bairns and many more.

 A Man’s A Man For A’ That
03:45

There Was A Lass, They Ca’d Her Meg; Amang The Trees
02:09

Thou Hast Left Me Ever, Jamie; Let Not Woman O’er Complain; Gat Ye Me, O, Gat Ye Me
04:42

The Lovely Lass Of Inverness
01:59

Scroggam; O Gie The Lass Her Fairin’, Lad
02:29

Hughie Graham
05:09

John Barleycorn: A Ballad
02:46

There’s Three True Gude Fellows; Johnie Blunt
02:11

Braw, Braw Lads On Yarrow Braes
01:19

The Gloomy Night Is Gath’ring Fast
04:12

Contented Wi’ Little, And Cantie Wi’ Mair
01:30

The Lass That Made The Bed To Me
04:33

Frae The Friends And Land I Love
02:29

Killiecrankie
01:53

O Once I Lov’d A Bonnie Lass
03:25

There’ll Never Be Peace ‘Till Jamie Comes Hame
01:48

Glencoe; Sweetest May
03:40

Caledonia
04:55

Masonic Song
00:47

There Grows A Bonie Brier-bush
02:50

O, I Am Come To The Low Countrie
03:16

Green Sleeves; Sweet Tibbie Dunbar; Lassie, Lend Me Your Braw Hemp Heckle
03:41