New album by Scottish early music group Concerto Caledonia, featuring Lecturer in Performance and violinist Dr Aaron McGregor.
New album by Scottish early music group Concerto Caledonia, featuring Lecturer in Performance and violinist Dr Aaron McGregor, alongside an all-star line up of singers and instrumentalists spanning classical, trad, and early music backgrounds. "Shepherds & Tea Tables" will be featured as Album of the Week on BBC Radio Scotland's Classics Unwrapped, on 19 March 2023.
Songs of love, society, commerce and drinking from the poet, dramatist and cultural catalyst Allan Ramsay and his circle in 1720s Edinburgh. The songs are from his two most successful publications, the pastoral comedy and ballad opera The Gentle Shepherd and the song collection The Tea-Table Miscellany, and they appear here with tunes in settings by Ramsay's colleagues to bring early Enlightenment Scotland to life.The album is one of the outputs of the AHRC-funded project project "The Collected Works of Allan Ramsay".More information, and links to download / stream the album can be found here:https://concal.org/albums?view=article&id=1316:shepherds-tea-tables&catid=9:albums