Various - Birds & Beasts: Music By Martyn Ben

Facts Martyn Bennett was one of Scotland's most innovative musicians, combining the traditional and modern, the local and the international. A long-planned collaboration with Mr McFall's Chamber was never realized during his tragically short lifetime. For the group's second disc with Delphian, Robert McFall has put together a program of his own sympathetic arrangements of Martyn's music alongside original works by Fraser Fifield, another of Scotland's virtuosic musical innovators. The premiere recording of Bennett's Piece for string quartet, percussion and Scottish smallpipes epitomizes his sophisticated mastery of fusion.