Un interessante documentario della BBC, con la collaborazione, tra i tanti artisti, di Barnaby Brown. Le setlist di tutte le esecuzioni sono disponibili sul sito, insieme a una trascrizione in PDF per chi non avesse seguito le puntate precedenti.
Episodio 0: (introduzione)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/music/scotlandsmusic/episodes/episode_00.shtmlEpisodio 1:
Rocks & Bones John Purser’s odyssey through Scotland’s musical history begins in
the Stone Age with sacred stones, whistles and bones, an encounter with some Druids, and some spooked schoolchildren. Fiddler Chris Stout introduces us to Shetland’s ‘little people’, the trowies, and then things take a more earthy turn with a fertilisation rite in Orkney’s chambered cairn Maes Howe, and the terrifying sound of Bronze Age horns inside the Duke of Hamilton’s giant phallic mausoleum.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/music/scotlandsmusic/episodes/episode_01.shtmlEpisodio 2:
Blasting the Romans This week, John Purser tells us the story of this
2000-year-old Celtic war trumpet. The carnyx, as tall as a man, with a wild-eyed boar’s head made of bronze, surely terrified the Romans. We hear of the recent archaeological discoveries in Scotland from Fraser Hunter, and in France from Christophe Maniquet. To help us imagine how the carnyx would have sounded, John Kenny plays this reconstructed instrument in the depths of Smoo Cave near Durness.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/music/scotlandsmusic/episodes/episode_02.shtmlEpisodio 3:
Iona John Purser tells the story of Columba’s arrival on Iona, where at first he wasn’t necessarily welcomed with open arms. Courtesy of pipers Hamish Moore and Barnaby Brown, and we hear
the mysterious Bronze Age triple pipes, an instrument found in Scotland and Sardinia.
John Purser takes us into a world of miracles and magic, when Welsh was the language spoken in Strathclyde, and Glasgow’s patron saint St Mungo had an encounter with a hairy naked madman who turned out to be the famous wizard Merlin