The tunes are the finest Scotland has to offer: "John Roy Stewart" and "Achmore Loch" are beautiful, "The Sailor's Wife" is a jig  which deserves to be widely known, and there's a fine set of Shetland reels fitted onto the pipes. Piper Rab Wallace also illustrates the difference in tone between the lowland pipes and the Scottish smallpipes, and as if that weren't enough he fits a pair of traditional Chinese tunes onto the limited smallpipe scale with breath-taking results. There are four songs, three in Scots Gaelic from Judith Peacock and one in Scots from guest James MacMillan. Two of them are from this century, but all are in a very traditional style. Judith has a light, pure voice which suits the sadder Gaelic songs perfectly, and the instrumental arrangements are suitably discreet. This is a very pleasant recording with some really interesting material .

Musicians:  Peter Anderson (Scottish side-drum, bodhran, percussion); Annaliese Dagg (viola, fiddle); Stuart Eydmann (fiddle, concertina); Mark Hayward (fiddle); Eddie MacGuire (flute, piccolo, clarsach); Judith Peacock (clarsach, vocals); Rab Wallace (Lowland pipes, Scottish smallpipes); James MacMillan (vocals, whistle).