The Portraits And The Music

(August 2003) 14 tracks: CHAPEL KEITHACK (Aly Bain and Alison Kinnaird) * ODE ON THE DEATH OF FRANCOIS II (Aileen Carr and Brian Miller) * SEAN TREWS / THE BUNGALOW / MISS SHEPHERD (Scott Skinner, Alasdair White and Pat Kilbride) * MO RUN GEAL (Flora MacNeil and Alison Kinnaird) * TWA BONNIE MAIDS (Alan Reid, Rob van Sante and Alasdair White) * CAOINEADH RIOGHAIL (Alison Kinnaird) * THE ATHOLL AND BREADALBANE GATHERING / THE BOAT LEAKS / NIGHEAN BHAN A MHUILLEIR (Mike Katz) * JOCK O HAZELDEAN (Jimmy Hutchison) * HILL HOUSE/ THE PHILOSOPHERS CHAIR (Battlefield Band) * MONTROSE (Battlefield Band) * THE MASSACRE OF GLENCOE (Dougie Pincock) * RANTIN ROVIN ROBIN (Battlefield Band) * NEIL GOW'S LAMENT FOR THE DEATH OF HIS BROTHER DONALD (Pete Clark, Neil Johnstone, Martin MacLeod, Jim Leighton) * NORLAND WIND (Davy Steele, John McCusker, Alan Reid).

Music by Temple Records artists celebrating Scots whose portraits hang in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.

The CD booklet contains photographs of the portraits, information about the sitters, and notes on the music which illuminates each portrait. The music celebrates an event in the sitter’s life, or a piece by the subject themself.

The 1st Marquess of Montrose, Charles I, Mary Queen Of Scots, Niel Gow, Robert Burns - fifteen famous people, accompanied by talented musicians.