This page is really intended for people who already own a copy of The Lion of Scotland.  For one reason and another the recording of this music was a rather unorthodox experience, and the resultant stresses led to a certain amount of hysteria in the sessions.  When I first went through the session tapes before editing, I made notes of any particularly enjoyable mishaps or messing around, and finally, over seven years later, I dug the tapes out again and spent a couple of hours making this little montage.  

John Purser is grateful for Janet Baker's non-presence, Carolyn Sparey shouts 'Stick it up your jumper' (it's the same rhythm as 'destruantur hostes' but easier to sing), Paula Chateauneuf counts to 2000 in Italian, and pretty much everything else is Catherine Bott displaying the art of shifting from the sublime to the ridiculous in a matter of milliseconds - listen out carefully for the 'boing'.  I just laugh a lot in the middle distance.