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Buy My Edinburgh by Anna-Wendy Stevenson
Anna-Wendy Stevenson - My Edinburgh: Anna Wendy Stevenson's My Edinburgh, commissioned by and first performed at Glasgow's 2006 Celtic Connections Festival, remains one of the most memorable concerts in the Festival's long-running New Voices series. An original work combining lyrical melody with evocative prose to create a series of musical postcards of her hometown, My Edinburgh is absolutely beautiful! Anna Wendy writes ""I was brought up in the beautiful city of Edinburgh, and while writing this piece, lived in a little nest of a flat, high up, right next to the castle. I have drawn inspiration from various locations, architectures, festivals, but most of all from people I’ve met through my musical life in pubs, such as Edinburgh's famous Sandy Bell's."
Musicians: Violins - Anna Wendy Stevenson, Robert McFall, Matheu Watson, Claire Sterling; Violas = Brian Schiele, Mairi Campbell; Cellos - Su-a Lee, Lesley Henning; Saxophone - Fraser Fifield; Mandolin & Bouzouki - Luke Plumb; Piano - Fos Patterson; Percussion - Donald Hay.
Voices: Freddie Thomson - Tracks 4 & 8; Audrey MacLennan - Track 7; Colin MacLennan - Track 2; Dave Francis - Tracks 1,3,6 & 9.
Tracks 1-10 with voices: Tracks 11-19 without voices
"Her music is never glib, showy nor shallow, but is the expression of a young woman in love with, and at home in culture - in the poetry, art and music of Scotland. Great taste and superlative technique flow together in her playing: whether in a classical ensemble or traditional folk group, she is recognised as having a rare gift"......Norman Chalmers, Journalist and musician
Media Reviews
..this composition lovingly celebrates the history of Stevenson's home town
First performed as a Celtic Connections' New Voices commission, this composition lovingly celebrates the history of Stevenson's home town, painted by an enlarged string section with reeds, frets, piano and percussion. Some colourful characters from Sandy Bell's, Auld Reekie's world-famous traditional music pub, add occasional spoken-voice narrative - and the tracks are also included without voices. This is a rich, seriously wrought, contemporary composition, albeit rooted in the joy of traditional form, beautifully performed by the cream of Scottish instrumentalists...Norman Chalmers, Scotland on Sunday.
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