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1997 EAST COAST MUSIC AWARD Winner!
"Recordings this good come around once in a blue moon." - Dalriada Magazine
"The music on Bach Meets Cape Breton is defiantly alive. David Greenberg's playing alone is worth the price of this record...extraordinarily fluid, crisp and dynamic. This album is an innovative breakthrough from beginning to end." - Halifax Daily News
"The whole album positively shines with love, skill, and intelligence. This is a beautiful, complex, highly ambitious, and unusually successful project. The medleys are natural and unforced and the repertoire is gorgeous. The harpsichord is so cool it made me laugh." - Fiddler Magazine
"It's the fusing of Cape Breton's traditional jigs, reels and hornpipes with their fascinating Baroque roots that creates the magic here....incredibly perfected performances...toe-tapping entertainment that defies description." - RPM Magazine
"Greenberg is to be saluted for his expressive playing, his graceful sense of Baroque style, and his infectious rhythm. (I challenge any warm-blooded human to sit through the dance tunes)...Greenberg's and Macmillan's aching performance of Neil Gow's Lament is worth the price of the disc." - The Globe and Mail
This melodic, wide-ranging delight has been hailed as "brilliant...an innovative breakthrough from beginning to end" and "toe-tapping entertainment". The ensemble Puirt a Baroque (pronounced poorsht-a-baroque) celebrates the music of Cape Breton and of the Baroque era whence it came.
The repertoire (performed by David Greenberg, violin, Scott Macmillan, guitar and David Sandall, harpsichord) ranges from works by Bach and Purcell to traditional-style jigs, reels, and hornpipes.
Catalog: MAR 181
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Track Listing
SUITE SONATA:
1 - Sweet is the Lass that Dwells Among the Heather
2 - The Carle He Came O'er the Craft
3 - Peggie I Must Love Thee
4 - The Honourable Mrs. Drummond of Perth's Delight (Listen)
5 - THE LASS BLAST
6 - PINKIE HOUSE MEDLEY (Listen)
7 - E-BEE JIG
PURCELL WITH A CHASER:
8 - First Music - Second Music: Hornpipe
9 - Air
10 - Canaries
11 - Song Tune
12 - Hornpipe - The Lads of Leith - Sodger Lad
13 - CHACONNE
14 - MUSIC FROM THE MABOU COAL MINES
15 - FY GAR GUITAR
16 - NIEL GOW'S LAMENT
17 - BACH MEETS CAPE BRETON
18 - THE FAREWELL
Total playing time: 70:45
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