TSCD466 JOHN BURGESS ~ KING OF THE HIGHLAND PIPERS
Connoisseurs recognise what amateurs feel instinctively, that John Burgess is the finest living exponent of the Scots bagpipes, equally impressive whether playing marches, airs, jigs, strathspeys or the majestic repertory of the pibroch, the classical music of the Highlands.
1Â 6/8 marches: Bundle & Go / Over the Water to Charlie / Campbeltown Loch / Joy Go with My Love / Traigh Gruinard / Morag
2Â slow air: Bonnie Argyl
3Â pibroch: Salute on the Birth of Rory Mor MacLeod
4Â 6/8 marches: Colonel Robertson / The 72nd Highlanders’ Farewell to Edinburgh / Major John MacLennan
5Â slow air & jig: Leaving Ardtornish / The Geese in the Bog
6Â hornpipes: The Snowtailed Coat / The Mallow Men / Pipe Mjr George S Allan / Jockey on the Braes of Abernathy / Wee Alex – Fort William / Paddy Kelly’s Stump / The Boys of Bluehill / The Ballachulish Walkabout
7Â march, strathspey & reel: Lord Alexander / Tulloch Gorum / Mrs MacPherson of Inveran
8Â hornpipe & retreat march: Duncan Johnstone / Farewell to Nigg
9Â jigs: The Baldoozer / Center’s Bonnet / Cork Hill / John MacDonald’s Jig
10Â air: Loch Monar
11 march, strathspey & reel: The Ewe wi’ the Crookit Horn / The Rejected Suitor
12Â jigs: Donald MacLean / Paddy’s Leather Breeches
13Â pibroch: The Desperate Battle of the Birds
14 jigs: The Old Wife’s Dance / The Kitchen Maid / The Irish Washerwoman
15Â air: The Wandering Piper
16Â marches: Parker’s Welcome to Perthshire / Achany Glen
17Â march, strathspey & reel: The Duchess of Edinburgh / Thick Lies the Mist on Yonder Hill / Rose Among the Heather / The High Road to Linton
18Â marches: The Pretty Apron / The Highland Lassie Going to the Fair / The Ladies from Hell / Devlin Side
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