As The Mirk Night (2021)
Four settings of Robert Burns
1. Green Grow the Rashes, O!
2. Ca’ the Yowes to the Knowes
3. O May, Thy Morn Was Ne’er Sae Sweet
4. Ye Banks and Braes o’ Bonnie Doon
SATB
Duration:
14′
First performance (‘Green Grow the Rashes, O!’):
26 May 2017
University of Aberdeen Chamber Choir, Paul Mealor, King’s College Chapel, Aberdeen, UK
Score
Programme note
As The Mirk Night is a set of four relatively simple arrangements of these beautiful Burns songs for choir. I have tried to keep as close to the originals as possible with the odd change of texture and harmony here and there adding a twenty-first century gloss to the piece. They form part of a wider concern in my work that involves engaging with Scottish culture and history.
PAC
Recording
A recording of ‘Green Grow the Rashes, O!’ is available on Vox Regis Records (VXR003) and can be bought here.
Green Grow the Rashes, O! (2016) by Robert Burns, arranged by Phillip Cooke, recorded by the University of Aberdeen Chamber Choir at St Mary's Chapel, Blairs...
