Thank you Rob for this labor of love. I appreciate you adding the sources that are available as well - nice touch. Your playing, as always, is beautiful and from the heart.
David Smith -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rob MacKillop Sent: Friday, October 28, 2011 1:27 PM To: LuteNet list Subject: [LUTE] Scottish Lute Recording Project Here's something I've been meaning to do for a while - a website devoted to Scottish lute music. Over the next fifty years, if I'm spared, I will record as much of the Scottish repertoire as I can, placing free mp3 files on the site. I haven't the slightest interest in commercial recordings anymore, and view this project as the creation of an aural database for performers of fiddle, harp, pipes, etc, (as well as lute players, of course) who share much of the repertoire. Despite a number of excellent CDs of Scottish lute music, they are not always easy to find, might fall out of circulation, and contain only a small percentage of the surviving repertoire. Scottish lute music is what brought me to the lute in the first place, and it remains closest to my heart, despite my love of the music of Weiss and Robert de Visee, et al. So here it is in its earliest state: http://scottishlute.com/ - watch it grow! I uploaded the first three Balcarres tunes today. I will be concentrating on Balcarres for a few months, until I get a 10c for the other manuscripts. Feel free to link to the site, use Facebook and Twitter links, etc. It's a mammoth task, and I will need periodic messages of support! It will definitely be a labour of love. And, yes, if you want to, you can download the tracks to your mp3 players. Rob MacKillop www.ScottishLute.com www.robmackillop.net To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
