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Track(s) taken from CDH55336

The wee cooper o' Fife

First line:
There was a wee cooper wha lived in Fife
composer
Anonymous - traditional
traditional Scottish ballad
arranger
Cedric Thorpe Davie (1913-1983)
author of text
Anonymous - traditional

Marie McLaughlin (soprano), Malcolm Martineau (piano)
Recording details: April 1999
St George's, Brandon Hill, United Kingdom
Produced by Martin Compton
Engineered by Tony Faulkner
Release date: March 2000
Total duration: 1 minutes 45 seconds

Cover artwork: Loch Linnhe.
Photograph by Malcolm Crowthers
 

A traditional Scottish ballad telling a traditional tale of gentility tamed. The comprehensible words relate the narrative, the others are picturesque vocables meaning little or much according to inflection.

from notes by John Currie © 2000

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