About the Performance
The very first Edinburgh Festival in 1815 was harshly criticised for not including Burns's song Scots Wha Hae. Here it appears in Pietro Urbani's musical depiction of the Battle of Bannockburn, as part of a feast of curiosities from Enlightenment Edinburgh.
There's chamber music from Burns's friend the Scots-German cellist Christoff Schetky, and Allan Ramsay's songbook provides proof that Monty Python wasn't the first to suspect that the classical philosophers liked a drop.
