Various - A Festival Of Edinburgh (LP) (Very Good Plus (VG+))

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Media Condition: Very Good Plus (VG+)
Sleeve Condition: Very Good Plus (VG+)

Waverley, LLP1001, 1960, 2 Track
 

Notes:

There are no banded tracks as such - both sides are one long sound collage. Though uncredited on a "track by track" basis the following artists contributed:

First Side of Record
City of Edinburgh Police Pipe Band, Pipe Major Ian McLeod, Massed Brass Bands of Carlton Main Frickley Colliery, Ransomes & Marles, Grimethorpe Colliery Institute and Yorkshire Imperial Metals, conducted by G. Hespe; Organ of St. Cuthbert's Parish Church, organist W. O. Minay. Mus. Bach., F.R.C.O., A.R.C.M.; The Choir of Trinity Academy, conducted by Margaret Munro, A.R.C.M.; Massed Choir of Edinburgh Schoolchildren, conducted by J.B.R. Whitfield, Mus.Bach., F.R.C.O.

Second Side of Record
The Eric Roberts Strng Orchestra, conducted by Eric Roberts; Percussion Band of James Gillespie's Higg School for Firls, directed by Miss D. N. Nicoll; The Edinburgh University Singers, directed by Herrick Bunney; The Edinburgh Brass Ensemble, directed by C. Duncan; The massed Pipes and Drums, and massed Military Bands from the Edinburgh Military Tattoo (by permissiono f Edinburgh Corporation); The choir of Broughton Secondary School, conducted by Elizabeth Caldwell, Mus.Bach.

Recording produced by T. B. Laing and recorded by W. J. McLean using A.K.G. condenser microphone, Ferrograph and Connoisseur equipment.

Reviewed as a new release by W. A. Chislett, "Nights at the Round Table", Gramophone magazine, April 1960, p. 545.

A1. The Rowan Tree
A2. Old Rustic Bridge
A3. Patrol - A Highland Route March
A4. Wiltshire
A5. Scots Wha' Hae
A6. Bannocks O' Bear Meal
A7. Come Boat Me O'er
B1. A Gaelic Suite
B2. The Keel Row
B3. Hot Cross Buns
B4. Lavender's Blue
B5. Hickory Dickory Dock
B6. Ce Moys De May
B7. Margot Labourez Les Vignes
B8. Sonata From Bankolsongerlieser
B9. The Deil Amang The Tailors
B10. Marquis of Huntly
B11. Scotland The Brave
B12. We're No' Awa' Tae Bide Awa'
B13. My Dream Angus
B14. Martyrs

Barcode and Other Identifiers:

Matrix / Runout LLP 1001 S1
Matrix / Runout LLP 1001 -2

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