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Celtic Dreams
Haunting songs of love and longing. Ancient melodies which tell of the landscape and the past, of heroic deeds and love lost and gained, expressed through music for harp. Aeolian pipe, small drum and the music of the sea itself. An atmospheric and very re
Haunting songs of love and longing. Ancient melodies which tell of the landscape and the past, of heroic deeds and love lost and gained, expressed through music for harp. Aeolian pipe, small drum and the music of the sea itself. An atmospheric and very re
Celtic Dreams
Haunting songs of love and longing
1 An Long Reubaidh - The Reiving Ship 3.01
Sarah Hill, clarsach - arranged Anne Macdearmid
2 My Lady Heron's Dompe 1.35
Sarah Hill, clarsach - arranged Anne Macdearmid
3 Cumha Peather Ruaidhri - Rory Dall's Sister's Lament 2.42
Sarah Hill, clarsach - arranged Anne Macdearmid
4 Coilsfield House 1.52
Sarah Hill, clarsach - arranged Anne Macdearmid
5 The Rowan Tree 0.57
Sarah Hill, clarsach - arranged Anne Macdearmid
6 'Braveheart' 3.00
J Horner - EMI Music Publishing Ltd
7 An Gille Bann - The Fair Haired Lad 2.10
Sarah Hill, clarsach - arranged Anne Macdearmid
8 Mairi Bhan Og - Mary, Young and Fair 1.43
Sarah Hill, clarsach - arranged Isobel Meiras
9 My Lagan Love 4.16
Traditional - arranged J Mendelsohn, Rainbow Media Publishing Ltd
10 Avondale 2.52
Traditional - arranged J Mendelsohn, Rainbow Media Publishing Ltd
11 Bi Falbh O'n Uinneig - Go Away From My Window 3.28
Sarah Hill, clarsach - arranged Anne Macdearmid
12 Fear a'Bhata - The Boatman 1.13
Sarah Hill, clarsach - arranged Isobel Meiras
13 Mo Nighean Chruinn Donn - My Neat Auburn Maid 1.08
Sarah Hill, clarsach - arranged Anne Macdearmid
14 By Yon Castle Wa' 1.21
Sarah Hill, clarsach - arranged Isobel Meiras
15 Harp Song 1.04
Sarah Hill, clarsach - composed Isobel Meiras
16 Mnathan a Ghlinne Sèo - Women of the Glen 1.33
Sarah Hill, clarsach - arranged Anne Macdearmid
17 The Isle of Arran 10.49
J Mendelsohn - Rainbow Media Publishing Ltd
18 Eriskay Love-Lilt 2.06
Sarah Hill, clarsach - arranged Ronald Stevenson
19 Summer in Kintyre 2.39
P Rayner Brown & D McEnzie - Rainbow Media Publishing Ltd
20 Cumha MhicCriomainn - MacCrimmon's Lament 1.14
Sarah Hill, clarsach - arranged Anne Macdearmid
21 An Clarsair - The Harper 2.16
Sarah Hill, clarsach - arranged Anne Macdearmid
22 Hio, hua Raonuill ud thall - The Lure of the Sea Maiden 2.31
Sarah Hill, clarsach - arranged Anne Macdearmid
23 Celtic Angels 5.17
P Rayner Brown - Rainbow Media Publishing Ltd
~ Sarah Hill ~
clarsach
~ Stephan Hannigan ~ aeolian pipes~ Duncan McEnzie ~ guitar
~ Paul Rayner Brown ~ keyboards and piano
~ Julian Mendelsohn ~strings ~ Nick Moss ~ flute and whistles
Tracks 1-5, 7-8, 11-16, 18 &20-22 P 2002 Classical Communications
Clarsach recorded at Jericho Farm Studios
Tracks 6, 9-10, 17,19 & 23 licensed from Rainbow Productions Ltd, RH16 3LG
With special thanks to Sarah Hill for her energy and imagination
and to Paul Rayner Brown for recording and producing Rainbow Productions tracks
Executive Producer Martin Souter
This compilation P & C 2002
Classical Communications
Made in Great Britain
CCL CDG1040
The music of the past can take many forms, from the glorious music of the early church to the earliest attempts of the people to capture emotions and beauty in sound. The music on this album - the songs and dances handed down through the generations - always speaks to us in a clear voice, a reminder of the past, of history and the passage of time, but with a sometimes surprising relevance to how we are now. The troubles, the joys, the sadness, the love and the longing of the souls of the past were not so different from those of today. Through the music we can touch on past generations and understand something of times past. A Celtic love song is much the same as a modern song of today.
On this album a lone harper plays a series of songs of Celtic origin. Songs of love, of war, of landscape, of joy and sadness, one after the other, building a world of past ages in sound. The reiving ship sails by, inviting us to journey to the land of the imagination, the land of dreams. Songs of a boy and a beautiful girl, the rowan tree and a Celtic hero follow the boat - and then the boatman himself calls us, as the music takes us to the sea, its waves and creatures calling us with their messages of timelessness and of the eternal ebb and flow. The sea maiden herself sings to us, and we hear the Celtic angels speaking to us from beyond the shore and we can dream - Celtic dreams of nature, and of oneness with the world.
The small harp - the 'clarsach' - is the perfect instrument for this music. Small enough to be portable, it would have been carried through the countryside by bardic folk, who would sing and play a lament - or a dance - in exchange for hearth and board. Other instruments can be heard on this album, from the small, melodious Aeolian pipe, to the flute and whistle of ancient origin. And the waves and whales themselves make music, their special, natural songs merging with the music of man to form sweeps of sounds which build a dreamscape, an inner world of the past, present and future. on body
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