Music in Scottish Castles and Country Houses

Music in Scottish Castles and Country Houses
Catalogued and surveyed by Dr Roger B. Williams MBE
Hon. Music Advisor to NTS



Former Owners  –  All Collections

Search limited to letter 'B'

Monday 6th October 2025

Balfe, Michael William (1808-1870) – Irish composer

I feel that thou art changed : ballad / Michael Balfe  > Drum Dr 06/6

Barbieri, Charles (fl.1800-1826) – Anglo-Italian composer

Six progressive sonatas and six preludes for the harp or pianoforte Op. 14 / Charles Barbieri  > Fraser C09/1

Barnett, John (1802-1890) – English composer

The moon is up! : serenade / T B Phipps  > Drum Dr 29/7

Bayly, Thomas Haynes (1797-1839) – English composer

Bentinck, C

Concerti grossi Op. 3 : for 2 violins &c / Francesco Geminiani  > Fraser B26 A-F/2

Bishop, Henry Rowley (1786-1855) – English composer 

He is all the world to me : song / Henry Bishop  > Drum Dr 03/27

Loch na Garr : air with piano or harp / Henry Bishop  > Drum Dr 03/40

The overture and music to The Barber of Seville : adapted to the English stage / Henry Bishop  > Fyvie FLC-07/8

Blacklocky, Dr

Six duets for two violins / Emanuele Barbella  > Drum Dr 02-A/1

Boyce, Thomas – ? c1732-1793, English cleric and dramatist

Beware of love / Domenico Corri  > Leith Hall LHM 07/2

The glad trumpet sounds a victory : song / Domenico Corri  > Leith Hall LHM 07/3

Boyle, Helen (1808-1869) – m. Sir Charles Dalrymple Fergusson, 5th Bart of Kilkerran (1800-1849)

Il canto : arietta (for tenor & piano) / Giovanni Battista Perucchini  > Newhailes NH 63/12

Capriccio on 'Bid me discourse' : for piano / Friedrich Kalkbrenner  > Newhailes NH 62/8

Fantasia from Rossini's 'La Gazza Ladra' : for piano / John F Burrowes  > Newhailes NH 63/7

The favourite airs in Weber's 'Der Freyschütz' : for piano with flute / T Latour  > Newhailes NH 62/15

The favourite new tunes, as danced .. in 1819 : for piano? / Nathaniel Gow  > Newhailes NH 62/24

A fifth dramatic divertimento from favourite airs by Rossini : for piano / David Bruguier  > Newhailes NH 62/20

A first dramatic divertimento from favourite airs by Rossini : for piano / David Bruguier  > Newhailes NH 62/18

Mélange from Meyerbeer's 'Il Crociato in Egitto' : for piano / Camille Pleyel  > Newhailes NH 63/4

Les menus plaisirs : divertimento for piano / J B Cramer  > Newhailes NH 61/3

Il mio ben quando verra : cavatina (for mezzo & piano) / Giovanni Paisiello  > Newhailes NH 63/19

O pescator dell onda (Venetian air) : piano variations / Carl Czerny  > Newhailes NH 62/2

Ogni zeffiro che spira : canzoncina / Nicola Vaccai  > Newhailes NH 63/14

'Passagier che si confonde' : piano variations / Carl Czerny  > Newhailes NH 62/17

Rondo from Faniska : for piano / Luigi Cherubini  > Newhailes NH 63/6

Se il fato barbaro : cavatina (for contralto & piano) / Giacomo Meyerbeer  > Newhailes NH 63/13

A second dramatic divertimento from favourite airs by Rossini : for piano / David Bruguier  > Newhailes NH 62/19

Select airs from Rossini's 'Il Turco in Italia' : for piano? / T Latour  > Newhailes NH 63/3

A sixth dramatic divertimento from favourite airs by Rossini : for piano / David Bruguier  > Newhailes NH 62/21

Sonata no. 1 for pianoforte Op. 37 / Daniel Steibelt  > Newhailes NH 61/11

The sun is o'er the mountain : song / Henry Bishop  > Newhailes NH 63/21

T'abbraccio, ti stringo, mio tenero figlio : cavatina (for high voice & piano) / Gioachino Rossini  > Newhailes NH 63/15

We're a' noddin' [by William Hawes] : piano variations / Mrs Maria White, of Leeds   > Newhailes NH 62/11

Braham, John (c1774-1856) – English tenor

Blue bonnets over the Border, or March, march, Etterick & Teviot-Dale / George Alexander Lee  > Drum Dr 32/3

Briod [ie Brodie?], Fanny (fl.1826)

  > Brodie Br 28/ (whole vol.)

Bristow, Mary – companion to Elyza Fraser q.v.

  > Fraser B01/ (whole vol.)

  > Fraser B02/ (whole vol.)

  > Fraser B03/ (whole vol.)

  > Fraser B04/ (whole vol.)

  > Fraser B05/ (whole vol.)

  > Fraser B06/ (whole vol.)

  > Fraser B07/ (whole vol.)

  > Fraser B08/ (whole vol.)

  > Fraser B09/ (whole vol.)

  > Fraser B10/ (whole vol.)

  > Fraser B11/ (whole vol.)

  > Fraser B12/ (whole vol.)

  > Fraser B13/ (whole vol.)

  > Fraser B14/ (whole vol.)

  > Fraser B15/ (whole vol.)

  > Fraser B16 A-H/ (whole vol.)

  > Fraser B17 A-C/ (whole vol.)

  > Fraser B18 A-D/ (whole vol.)

  > Fraser B19/ (whole vol.)

  > Fraser B20/ (whole vol.)

  > Fraser B21/ (whole vol.)

  > Fraser B22/ (whole vol.)

  > Fraser B23 A-C/ (whole vol.)

  > Fraser B24 A-G/ (whole vol.)

  > Fraser B25 A-F/ (whole vol.)

  > Fraser B26 A-F/ (whole vol.)

  > Fraser B27/ (whole vol.)

  > Fraser B28 A-C/ (whole vol.)

  > Fraser B29 A-D/ (whole vol.)

  > Fraser B30/ (whole vol.)

The celebrated dances performed at the King's Theatre in 1781, Bk 1 / Giovan Battista Noferi  > Fraser B09/1

The celebrated opera dances performed at the King's Theatre in 1783. Bk 1 : for harpsichord, violin or flute / Luigi Borghi  > Fraser B09/2

Six concertos for the harpsichord or pianoforte. Set 3 Op. 13 : [kbd] / J C Bach  > Fraser B01/1

Six sonatas for the harpsichord or pianoforte Op. 10 / J C Bach  > Fraser B14/1

Trois sonates pour le clavecin ou le pianoforte Op. 8 / Leopold Kozeluch  > Fraser B08/1

Twelve songs Op. 4 / William Jackson  > Fraser B03/4

Two sonatas for the harpsichord or pianoforte Op. 6 / G S Loehlin  > Fraser B02/1

Brodie House

  > Brodie Br 04/ (whole vol.)

  > Brodie Br 05/ (whole vol.)

  > Brodie Br 06/ (whole vol.)

  > Brodie Br 07/ (whole vol.)

  > Brodie Br 08/ (whole vol.)

  > Brodie Br 09/ (whole vol.)

  > Brodie Br 10/ (whole vol.)

  > Brodie Br 11/ (whole vol.)

  > Brodie Br 14/ (whole vol.)

  > Brodie Br 15/ (whole vol.)

  > Brodie Br 27/ (whole vol.)

Brodie, Jane Ann Catherine (1770-1842) – [aka Catharina / Katherine Jane Anne] ch. Lady Margaret Brodie q.v.

  > Brodie Br 27/ (whole vol.)

Handel's songs selected from his oratorios, vol. 3 : for harpsichord, voice &c / George Frideric Handel  > Brodie Br 30/1

Time, a favourite sonnet / Thomas Billington  > Brodie Br 17/7

Welcome all who sigh with truth : air & chor. / Thomas Shaw  > Brodie Br 17/21

Brodie, Lady Margaret nee Duff (1745-1786) – ch. 1st Earl of Fife; m. James Brodie of Spynie (1744-1824) - see also Margaret Duff

Six lessons from the favourite miscellaneous quartettos : for harpsichord / Johann Samuel Schroeter  > Brodie Br 29/1

Twelve sonatinas, or easy lessons for the harpsichord / George Berg  > Brodie Br 29/4

45 works from All Collections belonging to 15 Former Owners with surname beginning 'B'