A Festival Of Edinburgh

Artists

Album Info

Release Date: 1960

Label: Waverley

There are no banded tracks as such - both sides are one long sound collage. Though uncredited on a "track by track" basis the following artists contributed:

First Side of Record
City of Edinburgh Police Pipe Band, Pipe Major Ian McLeod, Massed Brass Bands of Carlton Main Frickley Colliery, Ransomes & Marles, Grimethorpe Colliery Institute and Yorkshire Imperial Metals, conducted by G. Hespe; Organ of St. Cuthbert's Parish Church, organist W. O. Minay. Mus. Bach., F.R.C.O., A.R.C.M.; The Choir of Trinity Academy, conducted by Margaret Munro, A.R.C.M.; Massed Choir of Edinburgh Schoolchildren, conducted by J.B.R. Whitfield, Mus.Bach., F.R.C.O.

Second Side of Record
The Eric Roberts Strng Orchestra, conducted by Eric Roberts; Percussion Band of James Gillespie's Higg School for Firls, directed by Miss D. N. Nicoll; The Edinburgh University Singers, directed by Herrick Bunney; The Edinburgh Brass Ensemble, directed by C. Duncan; The massed Pipes and Drums, and massed Military Bands from the Edinburgh Military Tattoo (by permissiono f Edinburgh Corporation); The choir of Broughton Secondary School, conducted by Elizabeth Caldwell, Mus.Bach.

Recording produced by T. B. Laing and recorded by W. J. McLean using A.K.G. condenser microphone, Ferrograph and Connoisseur equipment.

Reviewed as a new release by W. A. Chislett, "Nights at the Round Table", Gramophone magazine, April 1960, p. 545.

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