George Mackay Brown (1921 – 1996)

Playlist (texts read, music played and references):

1. Dark Island’, The Lone Piper
2. Mackay Brown: ‘The first house…’, ‘An early memory…’
3. From ‘The Road Home’ (1946)
4. From ‘Skara Brae: a Time of Drought’ (1987)
5. ‘The Tinker Wife’ (1956)
6. From ‘A Calendar of Love’ (1967)
7. Peter Maxwell Davies: from Symphony no. 2
8. From ‘The Golden Bird’ (1987)
9. Ron Ferguson: ‘The Wound and the Gift’ (2011)
10. From ‘Greenvoe’ (1972)
11. Bevan & Murray: ‘Northern Lights: a Poet’s Sources’ (1999)
12. From ‘Ships in the Ice’ (1972)
13. From the ‘Orkney Saga’
14. Peter Maxwell Davies: ‘Hymn to St Magnus’ – Introduzione
15. From ‘For the Islands I Sing’ (1997)
16. ‘Rackwick’ (1950)
17. From ‘An Orkney Tapestry’ (1969)
18. From ‘Chapman’ no. 84 (literary magazine)
19. Peter Maxwell Davies: ‘Farewell to Stromness’
20. Peter Maxwell Davies: from Symphony no. 1
21. From ‘Fishermen with Ploughs’ (1972)
22. ‘Beauty of the North’ (Celtic harp)
23. From a letter from GMB to Stella Cartwright (Jan 5, 1964)
24. ‘Stella: For Her Birthday (15 May, 1982)’
25. From an interview with GMB, Kenneth Steven (BBC Radio 4)
26. ‘Prehistoric Landscape’
27. ‘Brodgar, Summer 1978’
28. From ‘A Work for Poets’
29. Peter Maxwell Davies: ‘An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise’