The Pipes Are Calling

(March 2002) 16 tracks: AMAZING GRACE (Massed Bands and Pipes and Drums of the Army Regiments) * THE MIST COVERED MOUNTAINS The Pipes and Drums of the 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders and the Military Bands of the 9th/12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales) * AA CAMERON Wiseman's Exercise, Donald Bain, The Barn Dance, Hieland Laddie, The Lads of Mull (Pipes and Drums of The Queen's Own Highlanders) * THE TRAIN (Enter the Haggis) * AE FOND KISS My Love She's but a Lassie Yet, There was a Lad was Born in Kyle, A Man's a Man for a' That (Chamber Pipes and Flute) * SKYE BOAT SONG Auld Rustic Bridge, The Black Bear (The 1st Battalion Queen's Own Highlanders) * THE ROWAN TREE Bonnie Gallowa', The Waters of Kylesku, The Rocky Road to Dublin (Buccleuch and Queensberry Caledonia Pipe Band) * MHAIRI BHAN OG (The Porridge Men) * HIGHLAND CATHEDRAL (Massed Bands and Pipes and Drums of the Army Regiments) * THREE LITTLE JIGS The Hag at the Churn, Alastair an Duin, Willie Rutherford's Rant (Enter the Haggis) * SOLO PIPE Strathspey: John Roy Stewart, Reel: John Morrison of Assynt House (The World Champion Pipe Major of the 1st Battalion, Queen's Own Highlanders) * MORNING HAS BROKEN (Massed Bands and Pipes and Drums of the RAF) * GULRAVAGE Lt McGuire's Jig, Wee Harry, Duncan the Gauger (The Porridge Men) * SCOTLAND THE BRAVE (Pipes and Drums and Regimental Band of The Royal Highland Fusiliers) * DISTANT HILLS (Massed Bands and Pipes and Drums of the Scottish Division) * SERENADE (Massed Bands and Pipes and Drums of Army Regiments).

Why are the Great Highland Bagpipes known across the whole world? The reason seems to be that they stir in the listener an incredible strength of feelings * ranging from the heroic, inspiring men to go into battle against terrible odds, to a sense of awesome beauty, where feelings of wonderment, pain and joy can take hold.

This CD presents the pipes in many different settings, from massed bands to solo chamber pipes, from the traditional to the modern and contemporary.