Recommended Recordings
Northumbrian Music
Pauline Cato. Bonny at Morn: 47 tunes from the Northumbrian Tradition. Dave Mallinson Publications. DMPCD9702. Music played on the Northumbrian small-pipes.
Pauline Cato. Minstrel's Fancy. Dave Mallinson Publications. DMPCD9701.
Sandra Kerr, Nancy Kerr, James Fagan. Scalene. Fellside Recordings. FECD137. Their best yet - highly recommended.
Sandra and Nancy Kerr. Neat and Complete. Fellside Recordings. FECD107.
Nancy Kerr and James Fagan. Starry Gazy Pie. Fellside Recordings. FEDC127.
Ranting and Reeling: dance music of the north of England. Topic Voice of the People Series, VOL. 19. TSCD669.
Various Artists. Along the Coaly Tyne: Old and New Northumbrian Songs. Topic. TSCD498. With Louis Killen, Johnny Handle, Tommy Gilfellon, Colin Ross and Alistair Anderson.
The Keelers. On the North Sea Ground. Keel Music. KMCD103. Sea shanties and songs of the pit and mine.
Kathryn Tickell and Friends. The Northumberland Collection. Park Records. PRKCD42.
High Level Ranters. Northumberland Forever. Topic. TSCD483.
High Level Ranters. Bonnie Pit Laddie. Topic. TSCD486.
Pauline Cato and Tom McConville. By Land and Sea. TomCat Music. CDTCCD01.
Bob Fox and Benny Graham. How Are You Off For Coals: songs of the mining communities of North East England. Fellside. FECD111.
Brian McNeil. Monksgate: traditional music from Scotland, Ireland, Wales and Northumbria. Greentrax. CDTRAX062.
Katherine Tickell Band. Signs. Black Crow Records. CROCD230.
Katherine Tickell. Borderlands. Black Crow. CROCD210.
Katherine Tickell. Common Ground. Black Crow. CROCD220.
Katherine Tickell. The Gathering. Park Records. PRKCD39.
Katherine Tickell. On Kielder Side. Saydisc. CDSDL343.
Katherine Tickell. Debateable Lands. Park. PRKCD50. The debateable lands were a strip of high moorland no more than four miles wide that ran along the border between Scotland and England. This land was claimed for centuries by both countries, neither of which could successfully lay claim to them. Katherine Tickell has written a number of pieces based on the theme of these debateable lands.
Blue Moon Band. Border Directors. Laidley Worm Music. WORM004. "Continuing the Northumbrian tradition....".
Various Musicians. Spirit of the Border: Northumbrian Traditional Music. Nimbus.NI 5615. A good selection of well-played Northumbrian tunes.
The Lindseys and Alistair Anderson. On Cheviot Hills. White Meadow Records, Mount Hooley, Whittingham, Alnwick, Northumberland. NE66 4RN. Music for concertina and string quartet "in the traditional style".
The Cut and Dry Band. Cut and Dry Dolly. Topic. 12TS278.
The Cut and Dry Band. Cut and Dry 2. Topic. 12TS413.
Northumbrian Rant - Music From the Edge of England. SFW 40473. Compilation CD produced by the Smithsonian Institute (Folkways).
Carolyn Robson. All the Fine Young Men. Reiver Records. RVCRCD02. Includes Bonny at Morn, Hexhamshire Lass, I Drew my Ship into the Harbour, McCrimmon's Lament, Lord Yester.
The Northumbrian Small Pipes. Topic TSCD487. A selection of small pipe tunes played by Tom Clough, Billy Pigg, The High Level Ranters, Joe Hutton, The Cut and Dry Band and others. Tunes include Keel Row, Whittingham Green Lane, Wild Hills O' Wannie, Sir Sidney Smith's March, Roxburgh Castle, Bonny North Tyne, Sunderland Lasses, Lads of Alnwick, Barrington Hornpipe, Proudlock's Hornpipe, Hesleyside Reel, Ho'Ley Ha'Penny, Elsie Marley, John Fenwick's the Flower, Salmon Tails, Sweet Hesleyside, My Laddie Sits O'er Late Up, Shew's the Way to Wallington, Bonny Woodside, Coffee Bridge, Nancy, Hexham Quadrille.
Northumberland Rant. Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. SFW CD40473. (A mix of field, studio, and archival recordings made between 1954 and 1998, Northumberland Rant includes never before issued performances by the legendary piper Billy Pigg as well as some of Northumberland's favourite musicians - Jack Armstrong, Willie Taylor, the High Level Ranters, Joe Hutton, Anthony Robb, Kathryn Tickell, Pauline Cato, Chris Ormston, Will Atkinson, and others. 36 page booklet, photos, 65 mins).
Other Folk Music Recordings
Rob MacKillop. Flowers of the Forest. Greentrax. CDTRAX155. Scottish music from the 17th and 18th centuries for lute, cittern, guittar and mandour.
MacColl/Parker/Seeger. The Radio Ballads. Topic. The Ballad of John Axon. TSCD801. Song of a Road. TSCD802. Singing the Fishing. TSCD803. The Big Hewer, TSCD804. The Body Blow, TSCD805. On the Edge, TSCD806. The Fight Game, TSCD807. The Travelling People, TSCD808. Innovative, and still impressive, the first time, for example, regional accents were allowed onto the BBC, and the first time the ordinary man and woman was allowed to speak for himself, in his own vioce. The best three: The Travelling People, Singing the Fishing, and The Body Blow.
The Alan Lomax Collection: World Library of Folk and Primitive Music, Volumes 1-3 - England, Ireland and Scotland. CD1741 (England), CD1742 (Ireland), CD1743 (Scotland).
The Rough Guide to English Roots Music. World Music Network. RGNET1018CD.
Folk Melodies of the British Isles. Beautiful Jo Records. BEJOCD18.
Century of Song, A: A celebration of traditional singers since 1898. London: English Folk Dance and Song Society. EFDSS CD02, 1998.
Hidden English: A Celebration of English Traditional Music. Topic. TSCD600.
Sea Songs and Shanties: Traditional English Sea Songs and Shanties from the Last Days of Sail. Saydisc Records. CD-SDL 405. 1994.
Songs of the Travelling People. Saydisc Records. CD-SDL 407.
Stepping it Out! Traditional Folk Music, Songs and Dances from England. Veteran Tapes. VTC1CD.
Niamh Parsons. Blackbirds and Thrushes. Green Linnett. GLCD1179. Excellent selection of English Folk Songs.
Pete Clark. Even Now: The Music of Niel Gow. Smiddymade. SMD615. Pete Clark plays on Gow's original fiddle.
Classical Music With a Traditional Bent
Beethoven. Folksong Arrangements. John Mark Ainsley, Thomas Allen, Felicity Lott, Christopher Maltman, Ann Murray, etc. Vol. 17 of Complete Edition: DG 453 786-2 (7 Discs).
Beethoven. Irish, Welsh and Scottish Songs. Sophie Daneman, Paul Agnew, Peter Harvey, etc. Naive Astree. E 8850.
Battalia: Music for viols, violins, and keyboard, by Bull, Lawes, Simpson, Locke. Alba Records. ABCD139. Commonwealth English musicians found themselves redundant under the puritans. They gathered around their fires and made music for no-one but themselves.
Elizabethan Serenade. Naxos. 8553515.
Medieval European Music. Harmonia Mundi. HMX 290859.61. Music from Italy, England and Spain.
The Dark is My Delight. Evelyn Tubb, Sop., Michael Fields, Lute. 17th Cent. English Songs. Musica Obscura. 070980.
On The Idle Hill of Summer. Thomas Allen (baritone) and Geoffrey Parsons (pno). Six Songs from "A Shropshire Lad" by George Butterworth, plus Vaughan Williams songs.
On The Way To Bethlehem (Music of the Medieval Pilgrims). Ensemble Unicorn. Naxos. 8553132.
Music of the Troubadours. Ensemble Unicorn. Naxos. 8554257. European secular song in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
Malcolm Arnold. English, Scottish, Cornish and Irish Dances. Philharmonia Orchestra; Thomson. Chandos CHAN 8867.
Dvorak. Slavonic Dances. Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; Previn. Phillips 442 125-2PH.
Vaughan Williams. New Queen's Hall Orchestra; Wordsworth. Argo 440 116-2. Includes Five Variations on "Dives and Lazarus", Norfolk Rhapsody 1, In the Fen Country and Fantasia on Greensleeves.
Liszt. Hungarian Rhapsodies. Cziffra (piano). EMI CMS 764882-2.
Collection: Folksongs. Songs by Dvorak, Kodaly, Britten, Grainger, Larsson, Reynaldo Hahn and Gunnar Hahn. Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano), Bengt Forsberg (piano). DG 463 479-2.
Benjamin Britten: Folksong Arrangements, Songs of the Chinese, Abraham and Isaac. Paul Esswood (countertenor), James Griffett (ten), Judith Ridgeway (pno), Timothy Walker (guitar). Regis RRC1054.
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