Notes and Editorial Reviews
Martyn Bennett was one of Scotland’s most innovative musicians, combining the traditional and modern, the local and international. A long-planned collaboration with Mr McFall’s Chamber was never realised during his tragically short lifetime. For their second disc with Delphian, Robert McFall has put together a programme of his own sympathetic arrangements of Martyn’s music alongside original works by Fraser Fifield, another of Scotland’s virtuosic musical innovators. The premiere recording of Martyn’s ‘Piece’ epitomises his sophisticated mastery of fusion.
‘[Bennett] caused a sensation – and much controversy – in british folk music … Scottish bagpipe and fiddle music with techno beats ’
— Guardian obituary, February
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2005
‘I believe the group – in what it does, and in what it represents – is potentially the most important single development on the Scottish musical scene in a long time'
— Michael Tumelty, The Herald, on Mr McFall’s Chamber
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Works on This Recording
1.
Peewits by Martyn Bennett
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Mr McFall's Chamber
2.
Kilchoan Ferry by Fraser Fifield
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Mr McFall's Chamber
3.
The Beast by Fraser Fifield
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Mr McFall's Chamber
4.
Knives in Hens by Martyn Bennett
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Mr McFall's Chamber
5.
Aye by Martyn Bennett
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Mr McFall's Chamber
6.
Cuillin Part 2 by Martyn Bennett
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Mr McFall's Chamber
7.
The Miller by Martyn Bennett
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Mr McFall's Chamber
8.
Swallowtail by Traditional
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Mr McFall's Chamber
9.
Piece for String Quartet, Percussion and Scottish small-pipes in C by Martyn Bennett
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Mr McFall's Chamber
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