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The Scottish Requiem

Performed at Celtic Connections festival, January 2000 to celebrate the new Millenium. (Listen to the audio samples)

I wrote this piece to remember all our ancestors who have shaped our past and our futures. At the time of writing I felt that many people were looking only to the future and I wanted to remember the previous two milleniums. As it was a piece about Scots I had the latin mass texts translated into Lowland Scots (by Rod Paterson) and I featured fiddle and bagpipes as the solo instruments.

Musicians: Rod Paterson, Petrea Cooney (vocals), Aidan O'Rourke, Anna-Wendy Stevenson, Alan Henderson (fiddles), Finlay MacDonald, Iain MacInnes (Highland Pipes), Choir and String Orchestra. It was conducted by Andy Thorburn.

Latin mass texts in Lowland Scots

Introitus
Ever an' on gie them a bield O' Lord
And aye a licht tae shine abune
Hymnit in Sion shalt thou be
And e'en avowit in Jerusalem.
Tak' tent oh my entreat
A' flesh wins awa tae thee
Gar shine O' Lord Gar shine a licht a abune them
E'en loot them swage.

Kyrie
Lord, hae mercy
Christ, hae mercy
Lord, hae mercy

Offertorium
Lord Jesus Christ, King o' Glorie
Wyse the sauls o' a the leal deid
Fae the ills o' the Evil Place,
An' the lochan deep.
Sauf them frae the lion's mou'.
An' lootna' Hell tae swally them
'At the mayna fa' intil the mirk
But an' gar the halie waffster Michael
Tae shaw the gate intil the halie licht,
Whilk ye hecht tae Abraham,
An' lang syne his weans.

Hostias
We hecht tae ye, o' Lord, oor secrifeese an' bidden.
Accep them fur thae sauls we mind on the day
'At frae daith they micht win awa' tae yon life
Whilk ye hecht tae Abraham
An lang syne his brood.

Sanctus
Halie, Halie, Halie Lord God o' Hosts.
Owre a' the Heivens an' the yird
Glazie lowes thy glorie,
Hosanna I' the heichmaist.

Benidictus
Sain-it is he 'at wins throu in the name o' the Lord.
Hosana i' the heich-mast!

Agnus Dei
Lamb O' God,
wha scoors awa' oor warldlie fauts:
Gie them peace for aye.

Communion
Hap them in licht for aye
That are wi thy saints, O' Lord.
sae guid is thy gree.
Easdom gie' them O' Lord,
An gar a licht shine them abune
wi thy saints for aye
sae guid is Thy gree.

In Paradisum
May the angels wyse ye intil haiven:
may the mairtyrs welcome ye
An' tak' ye tae the holy city,
May cores o' angels greet thee,
An' whaur Lazarus nae langer sairie is,
Everly lousit lay ye by.

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