Review for Music for Book 9

Music for Book 9 plus 4 Dances 2008 plus 2 Eileen Watt Dances RSCDS

What a wonderful idea – to give us not just the music for book 9, but to add recordings for 6 modern (and I’ m sure by now favourite) dances, several of which have not been recorded before to my knowledge. I am not a musician, but I have been dancing since the days when people still had 78s. Our club always had a great collection of LPs and now has more than 100 original CDs, so I’ ve heard a few tunes. I got this double CD, looked at the dance titles and immediately skipped to track 4 on the second CD. Liam and his team do an excellent job of Cadgers! The following track (CauldKail)is one of the best recordings of a medley I’ ve come across. The tempo of both the strathspey and the reel are good and the junction is beautifully done, from a dancing point of view. I enjoyed all the reels and jigs on both recordings. The fingering of both Lindsay Weir and Liam Stewart is very clean, tempo is excellent and there are some cracking new tunes to add to the traditional ones.