SEPTEMBER 6

The Musicians of Edinburgh
Geoffrey Davidson – baritone
Sharon Lindo - violin
Jeremy Barlow - harpsichord
Compiled and presented by David Johnson

Music of the Scottish Enlightenment
comprises songs of Robert Burns from the Edinburgh songbook The Scots Musical Museum, with violin and Scots-fiddle works by Burns’ mentors and contemporaries: John Clerk of Penicuik, William McGibbon, James Oswald, Niel Gow and Robert Riddell of Glenriddell.

The Musicians of Edinburgh is a group of expert Scottish musicians, convened by the Edinburgh label Scotstown to make two Burns’ CDs, acclaimed for their cutting-edge approach and for tackling his songs for the first time from the musical viewpoint of The Scottish Enlightenment.

Geoffrey Davidson has given many solo BBC broadcasts and has made commercial recordings with eminent conductors - André Previn, Sir Simon Rattle among them. He has also appeared as soloist with the London Mozart Players and the BBC Symphony, Berlin Philharmonic and Hallé Orchestras and has sung in opera and concert at La Scala, Milan.

Sharon Lindo performs and tours with many medieval, renaissance, baroque and folk groups, including the Broadside Band, the Sixteen, the Dufay Collective, Collegium Musicum 90, and the New Scorpion Band. She is the leader of the Corelli Orchestra, based in Cheltenham.

Jeremy Barlow has been a flautist, theatre-music director and radio producer, focussing on early music as a performer and scholar. He has recently published a book on the 18^th-century cartoonist William Hogarth.

David Johnson (presenter/compiler) is the composer of around 50 works, ranging from pieces for schoolchildren to five operas, all of which have been staged. He is also a musicologist and author of the ground-breaking studies Music and Society in Lowland Scotland and Scottish Fiddle Music in the 18^th century.

Sponsored by Sally & Richard Allen, Charles Lawson-Dick

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Last revised: 19/02/2008