Blandade Artister - The Red Red Rose: Songs & Tunes Fro

Facts Concerto Caledonia bring their exuberant flair for early Scottish music to love songs from the time of Robert Burns, and baroque/Cape Breton virtuoso David Greenberg brings along some wild fiddling from the golden age of the Scots violin. The original version of Robert Burns' most famous song the Red Red Rose - to a tune by Edinburgh-based Italian singer Pietro Urbani - appears here in it's first ever recording. There are fiddle tunes and courtly dances by 18th-century 'crossover artist' Robert Mackintosh, and traditional material from collections of Scots music in Britain and Ireland: A wide cross-section of Scottish musical culture in the 1700s.