The Queen’s Royal Pipers - Best of Scottish Pipes & Drums
[EUCD1312]

CD Information • CD Title: Best of Scottish Pipes & Drums • Artist(s): The Queen’s Royal Pipers • CD Code: EUCD1312 • Tracks: 12 • Playing Time: 54:18 min • Booklet Info in: English, Spanish, French, German

“Journey Through Scotland” is a wonderful collection of pieces giving you the full flavour of Scotland and the country’s representative sound of the pipes and drums. The Pipe Majors Roger Huth and J.M. Banks are former household pipers to Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, and Pipe Major Brian MacRae holds this post presently. The post of “Piper to the Sovereign” is relatively recent, dating back to the early years of Queen Victoria’s reign.

Track Listing:

1. Welcoming set - 3:41
Scotland the Brave (trad.)
Badge of Scotland (trad.)
The Atholl Highlanders (trad.)
Bonny Galloway (trad.)

2. Burns Country - 3:57
The Corn Riggs (trad.)
A Man's a Man (trad.)
My Love she's but a Lassie yet (trad.)
There was a Lad (trad.)
The Corn Riggs (trad.)

3. Journey from the Lochs - 6:44
Loch Lomond (trad.)
Loch Duich (trad.)
Loch Rannoch (John Wilson)
Road to the Isles (trad.)
Train Journey North (T. Anderson)

4. Piobaireachd - 4:13
MacFarlanes Gathering

5. Dancing Feet - 5:41
Pibroch of Donald Dubh (trad.)
Cock o'the North (trad.)
Glendaruel Highlanders (Pipe Major A. Fettes)
Farewell to the Creeks (Pipe Major J. Robertson)

6. Across the Water - 3:37
The Skye Boat Song (trad.)

7. Three in a Bar - 5:04
The Bloody Fields of Flanders (P/M J. MacLellan)
Torosay Castle (Pipe Major J. Laurie)
Lochan Side (P/M MacLellan)

8. A Lament - 4:55
His Fathers Lament for John Ban MacKenzie

9. At a State Banquet - 4:33
The Balmoral Highlanders (Angus MacKay)
The Duke of Gordons Birthday (Marshall)
Thick Lies the Mist on yonder hill (trad.)
Inverinate House (trad.)
Sound of Sleat (D. McKinnon)
Queen Elizabeths March (Bannantyne)

10. Scottish Waltz - 5:22
The Mist covered Mountains
Morag of Dunvegan (Neil Matheson)
My Home (trad.)
The Highland Cradle Song (trad.)

11. Some old Songs - 3:10
Drums Intro
The Bonnie Lass o Fyvie (trad.)
The Battle of Killiekrankie (trad.)
The Rose of Allandale (trad.)
The Rowan Tree (trad.)

12. Fare ye well - 3:21 The Flower of Scotland (trad.)