A Fine Song for Singing

A Fine Song for Singing Artist: Jean Redpath
Label: Philo Records
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 011671111025
EAN: 0011671111025
ASIN: B0000003S2


Release Date: 1994-02-22

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Tracks:

  1. I Will Make You Brooches
  2. Up The Noran Water
  3. Captive Song Of Mary Stuart
  4. Wild Geese
  5. Capernaum
  6. Now The Die Is Cast
  7. South Wind
  8. Song Of Wandering Aengus
  9. Rohallion
  10. The Tryst
  11. John O'Dreams
  12. Broom O' The Cowdenknowes
  13. Annie Laurie
  14. Broken Brook

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Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Great voice, Great Songs.......2006-02-22

I have listened to Jean Redpath many times on Prairie Home Companion and always enjoyed her performance. While surfing the BBC site, I came across a "Best Scottish Poems" contest. In researching the poems, I found Jean Redpath had recorded a song version of several. Ms. Redpath's clear tones and fluid delivery made it a delight to listen to all the songs on this album; most of which I never heard before. I particularly enjoyed the "Broom O' The Cowdenknowes" it is a rather different style then Silly Wizard's version, which I also enjoy.

4 out of 5 stars amazing voice, excellent songs.......2000-12-12

Wonderful combination of Jean Redpath's singing with Abby Newton's cello accompaniment. The songs are a mixture of traditional Scots songs, along with new musical settings of poems, and one song set to a classical melody.

Anyone looking for a song that expresses the sadness of being far from home and unable to return should hear Violet Jacob's poem "The Wild Geese" on this album.

Jean Redpath communicates the emotions of the songs in a way that few other singers can do. One or two of the songs are a bit too sentimental and 'People's Friend'-style for my taste (trust me, anyone Scottish will know what this means !) but the album as a whole is one I have been coming back to again and again for years.

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