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''The Land of the Mountain and the Flood'' is a concert overture for orchestra, composed by Hamish MacCunn in 1887. Often cited as the archetypal Scottish overture, it is frequently likened to the works of Sir Walter Scott in its unashamedly lyrical, romantic view of the Scottish landscape. The title is in fact taken from Scott's ''The Lay of the Last Minstrel'', canto vi, stanza 2: ::''O Caledonia! stern and wild,'' ::''Meet nurse for a poetic child!'' ::''Land of the heath and shaggy wood,'' ::''Land of the mountain and the flood,'' ::''Land of my sires! what mortal hand'' ::''Can e'er untie the filial band'' ::''That knits me to thy rugged strand!'' After its first performance at Crystal Palace, George Bernard Shaw said witheringly of it:
In 1968 the overture came to renewed attention when EMI included it on an LP 'Music of the Four Countries' (ASD 2400), played by the Scottish National Orchestra conducted by Alexander Gibson. From there it gained wider familiarity by being used from 1973 to 1976 as the theme for the BBC television series ''Sutherland's Law''.〔 ==Recordings== ''The Land of the Mountain and the Flood'' and excerpts from MacCunn's opera ''Jeanie Deans'' were recorded in Govan Town Hall in June 1995 by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Martyn Brabbins and released by Hyperion Records the same year.〔 *Steane, J. B. (February 1996). (Review: ''Jeanie Deans, The Land of the Mountain and the Flood'' (Hyperion CDA66815 )). ''Gramophone'', p. 102. Retrieved 27 January 2012.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Land of the Mountain and the Flood」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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