The Edinburgh based Leda Trio plays rare, interesting and beautiful music from 18th century Scotland - music that would have been an important part of social life in the Edinburgh of the time.
THE Scottish Enlightenment in the mid-eighteenth century produced figures of international stature, ranging from the philosophers, David Hume, Thomas Reid and Adam Smith, to the painter Allan Ramsay, the architect Robert Adam, the medical pioneer William Hunter, the novelist Tobias Smollet, the poet James Thomson and the poet and collector of Scottish songs Allan Ramsay (senior). The Leda Trio's programme contains examples of the kind of music which was a part of all their lives, written by two Scottish composers - James Oswald (1710 - 1773) and David Foulis (1710 - 1769) - who were themselves products of that intellectual and artistic flowering.
The Leda Trio are:
Peter Campbell – Kelly: violin
Katherine Thomson – harpsichord
Kevin McCrae - cello
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