Liner Notes:
PRIDE OF THE PIPERS
Pipes and Drums of the
1st Battalion Scots Guards
with Pipe Major Angus MacDonald
The pipes are capable of producing many moods — tremendously stirring when they play marches, exciting in the reels and jigs, and compellingly plaintive in the laments. All these moods are displayed par excellence on this fine album by the Pipes and Drums of the 1st Battalion Scots Guards, led by Pipe Major Angus MacDonald. It is he who plays the solo pipe in the beautiful ‘Amazing Grace’, accompanied on this record by the pipe organ at the Kingsway Hall, played by David Bell. This is a most interesting experiment which has produced a wonderful sound, providing as it does a harmonic structure of the work of which the pipe is incapable.
This album is obviously not intended just for fans of the pipe but for a much broader public who have recently accepted this instrument as a medium for expressing the poignancy of a beautiful melodic line.
Walter J. Ridley
Pipes and Drums of the
1st Battalion Scots Guards
with Pipe Major Angus MacDonald
The pipes are capable of producing many moods — tremendously stirring when they play marches, exciting in the reels and jigs, and compellingly plaintive in the laments. All these moods are displayed par excellence on this fine album by the Pipes and Drums of the 1st Battalion Scots Guards, led by Pipe Major Angus MacDonald. It is he who plays the solo pipe in the beautiful ‘Amazing Grace’, accompanied on this record by the pipe organ at the Kingsway Hall, played by David Bell. This is a most interesting experiment which has produced a wonderful sound, providing as it does a harmonic structure of the work of which the pipe is incapable.
This album is obviously not intended just for fans of the pipe but for a much broader public who have recently accepted this instrument as a medium for expressing the poignancy of a beautiful melodic line.
Walter J. Ridley
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