Recordings of my music

Immortal Memory

The University of Aberdeen Chamber Choir released its first CD on the university's Vox Regis record label on the 20 January 2017 with an album entitled Immortal Memory - A Burns Night Celebration. It features my arrangement of Burns's Green Grow the Rashes, O! alongside arrangements by other staff and PG students from the Department of Music.

“The poetry and songs of Robert Burns have inspired composers, writers and artists for over 200 years. His ability to speak to people where they are, regardless of their rank; his human insight; his ready wit and his quick compassion; his ability to make us cry and laugh, have made this young Scotsman immortal and universal. This CD of new arrangements by composers based at the University of Aberdeen is our tribute to the greatest poet of Scotland has produced. In each of these new and inspired arrangements, the young composers of Aberdeen have added their own voices to his, and the result is beautiful and distinctive.

The release of this special CD occurs one year to the day after the terrible and disastrous flooding in Royal Deeside. Many parts of Deeside were destroyed by the New Year floods of 2016. Nowhere was more damage than the historic little town of Ballater. The profits from this CD will go directly to the Ballater Flood Appeal and to the people of that special place. It is our hope that, through music and poetry, we can help the people of Ballater and, in true North East style, do so with good humour and warmth. This CD is, above all, a Burns Night in Aberdeen: from the Selkirk Grace to the Immortal Memory and finally to a spirited rendition of Auld Lang Syne, this is music of joy and celebration in the face of anything that life can throw at us.”

— The Very Rev Professor Iain Torrance Kt TD DD FRSE