Jean Redpath - "My Love Is Like a Red Red Rose"

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Jean Redpath Sings - LIVE, 2009 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmIMXiG1bfE 

 

 

Here are two more songs from the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, MN, February, 2009:

1. "My Love Is Like a Red Red Rose"

2. "Some Kind of Love" 3:59

 

 

Jean Redpath playlist:   

 • Jean Redpath (1937-2014)  

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE21A80FB2B2B7418 

 

Jean Redpath (1937-2014)

Stephen Holden of the New York Times said: "In her purity of line, precision of intonation and I control of pitch, the Scottish traditional singer Jean Redpa...

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Jean Redpath - "My Love Is Like a Red Red Rose"

 

The Scots Poet, Robert  Burns (1759 - 1796)

The Scots fiddle composer Neil Gow (1727-1807) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmIMXiG1bfE 

 

 

* Ms Redpath sang 'My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose'  to the tune that Robert wanted it to be sung

 

* alas this beautiful Scottish Lass - is no more on this earth - - but thanks for all the --beautiful sounds - they will --live on .. forever in Folk Memory ..

 

 

My Luv's Like A Red, Red Rose · Sheena Wellington

Writer, Composer: Niel Gow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQKJ2dcmF3c 

 

One of Burns’ best-loved songs. Burns originally set the words to Major Graham’s  Strathspey, written by fiddler, Niel Gow

 

- The Scots fiddle composer Neil Gow (1727-1807) 

 

-The Scottish  poet  Robert  Burns(1759-1796)

is a celebrated Scottish poet

バーンズ[Robert Burns]  로버트 번즈 . 스코틀랜드에서 출생하여 농부로서 일생을 마침(1759-1796)

 

O My Luve’s Like a Red, Red Rose

O my Luve’s like a red, red rose
That’s newly sprung in June;
O my Luve’s like the melodie
That’s sweetly play’d in tune.

As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
So deep in luve am I:
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
Till a’ the seas gang dry:

Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt wi’ the sun:
I will luve thee still, my dear,
While the sands o’ life shall run.

And fare thee well, my only Luve
And fare thee well, a while!
And I will come again, my Luve,
Tho’ it were ten thousand mile.

 

 

Jean Redpath sings Robert Burns "Westerln Wind"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7RGcdsM4Vk 

 

Redpath and Burns. Video and Images by Dall Wilson.

Vocals from Jean Redpath "Songs of Burns arr. Serge Hov"

 

22nd August. Farewell Jean Redpath.  This song is 'Song Composed in August' (The Songs of Robert Burns, arr. Serge Hovey; vol.3) - The  voice touched music's heart and... 

 

It's the 2nd of August in the Pacific NW. 20 miles South of Seattle Washington and 60 miles from the top of Mount Rainier..14,410 .. It's 93 degrees in the hottest summer I can remember...I climbed Mount Rainier 36 years ago, August 1, 1979.. The world gets me down... too much conflict in the world... Things are not going very well for the Earth...I think back to cool Scotland...To old friends now dead, to family who has passed on...Are the old days always better... With most of my life in the rearview mirror I would say so... This song cheer me... a wonderful song by a sweet and clear voice from afar...Jean died almost a year ago... but the warmth of her soul comes through.... God Bless All Here...

 

The tune Mr. Burns composed his lyric to, indicating so in both editions of his poems, was "I had a horse, I had nae mair," song #185 in the Scots Musical Museum. This air that Ms. Redpath sings, "Port Gordon," by Rory Dall O'Cahan, he indicated for publication in the Museum in 1792 - they preferred not to repeat tunes. "I had a horse" is still a better vehicle for the song, with trademark moments of prosody: he matches "waving grain" to a double grace note and the moorcock "springs" an octave! No one has yet recorded this melody. Gaughan's version is stunning but that melody has nothing to do with Burns.

 

@ianbrooksbank Thanks, Ian. This is wonderful information. Love to hear Gaughan. Glad to put Jean's work on youtube (if she drops a line--told she lives near by in Asheville NC). Rather use her images than mine. This piece is filler; I loved the song to share. Burns in this lyric is the perfect poet of the world. I'm a mixed fan of Hovey's work; Jean is glorious. Piano...blah; not very Burns I suspect. Even so this arrangement and the rest of the album are understated glories.