Unless you're a Scot, you may think you know Robert Burns only through Auld Lang Syne, which serves as the finale to this excellent group of Burns settings, and which traditionally closes out Burns Night events as well as North American New Year's Eve celebrations. This album represents the musical contents of a Burns Night (or "Burns Supper") event. You'll probably recognize lines from other poems as they go by, and you get a good sampling of Burns' poetry in this release by the University of Aberdeen Chamber Choir, and ...
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Unless you're a Scot, you may think you know Robert Burns only through Auld Lang Syne, which serves as the finale to this excellent group of Burns settings, and which traditionally closes out Burns Night events as well as North American New Year's Eve celebrations. This album represents the musical contents of a Burns Night (or "Burns Supper") event. You'll probably recognize lines from other poems as they go by, and you get a good sampling of Burns' poetry in this release by the University of Aberdeen Chamber Choir, and the singing of this hitherto little-known group is precise while displaying young voices at their most magical. Yet the most attractive feature of the album is the variety of settings and arrangements, all of them, except for the straight readings of the poetry, done by professors at the university. Those unaccompanied readings are delightfully chosen; sample Address to a Haggis for an idea of the fun that awaits the buyer here. The settings themselves range from traditional to...
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