Francesco Barsanti - Lochaber - Voices of Music

Hanneke van Proosdij, voice flute (recorder) Carla Moore, baroque violin Elisabeth Reed, viola da gamba Rodney Gehrke, baroque organ Peter Maund, frame drum Cheryl Ann Fulton, baroque triple harp David Tayler, archlute Francesco Barsanti came to London in 1714, where he performed in the London orchestras. He married a Scotswoman and got to know the folk music of the North, which resulted in some of the most beautiful settings of these tunes. Lochaber, in the north-west of Scotland, is a wild and rugged place of mountain and moorland, running from the Great Glen to Knoydart on the coast. There are versions of this tune called King James March to Ireland dating from the 17th century. It is known in Ireland as Limerick’s Lament.