- Mackay's Memoirs (album)
Infobox Album
Name = Mackay's Memoirs
Type = studio
Artist =Martyn Bennett
Released =April 15 ,2005
Recorded =2005
Genre = Celtic, Classical
Length = 20:17
Label =City of Edinburgh Music School
Producer =Various
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:dcftxqtaldte link]
Last album = "Grit" (2003)
This album = "Mackay's Memoirs" (2005)
Next album = "incumbent""Mackay's Memoirs" is the last recorded work by Scottish
Celtic fusion artistMartyn Bennett . It was released onApril 15 ,2005 by the City of Edinburgh Music School.It is the recording of a piece commissioned for the
opening of the Scottish Parliament on 1st July 1999 and is performed by the City of Edinburgh Music School Chamber Orchestra and conducted by Susan Emslie.The composition for pipes, clarsach and orchestra was written in honour of the late Dr. Kenneth A Mackay of Badenoch after Bennett read Dr Mackay's medical and personal journals written during his post as
Free Church of Scotland missionary general practitioner in Moyobamba,Peru . The composition is based around the theme and first variation of the piobaireachd 'Lament For Mary MacLeod' and opens withPsalm 121 and features the pipes, voices, clarsach and the classical orchestra.It was recorded the morning after Martyn's death on the 31st January 2005 by the young people of Broughton High School who were unaware Martyn had passed away, the news being kept back until recording was over. The record is Bennett's final recorded work.
Track listing
# "Mackay's Memoirs" – 14:19
# "Mackay's Memoirs (Dolphin Boy Remix)" – 5:58External links
* [http://www.martynbennett.com/album_06_mackaysmemoirs_01.html Official Website]
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