Early in 1985 we were asked to prepare and record the soundtrack music for a series of eight films being made for Scottish Television. . . . Entitled Held in Trust and shown first in the spring of 1986, the subject was the properties owned by the National Trust for Scotland. About half this collection come form music already existing within the tradition and having some association with the Trust's wide and extraordinary inventory.
Music written specially for the film series makes up the rest.
In both cases the problem was not finding material but deciding what to leave out. The final choice was made on a purely personal basis. This, then, is the Music in Trust.