- Audio CD (24 Sep 1996)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Import
- Label: Dreyfus
- ASIN: B000001ZSN
- Other Editions: Audio CD
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Track Listings
| 1. Brian Boru |
| 2. Let The Plinn |
| 3. Mna Na Heireann |
| 4. Ye Banks And Braes |
| 5. Mairi's Wedding |
| 6. Cease Fire |
| 7. De' Ha Bla' |
| 8. Sword Dance |
| 9. Parlamant Lament |
| 10. Lands Of My Fathers |
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This was given to me as a birthday present and I'd never heard of him before. The first time I listened to it I really didn't know what to make of it - his voice is strange but incredibly powerful at times! As an old Folky I was really drawn to the unusual arrangements he used for songs like "Land of My Fathers" and the title song, Brian Boru, and gradually it became one of my all time favourite albums. I'm going to buy a new copy because mine has vanished and batter my husband with it until he loves it as much as I do!
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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Strange? Brilliant? Uneven? All of the Above!
23 Aug 1998
Format:Audio CD
As with much of Alan Stivell's work, this is a decidedly odd album. In some tracks, this makes for brilliant listening. In others, unfortunately, it crashes and burns. The most notable example is the version of "Mna/ na hE/ireann," which is not bad instrumentally but is utterly destroyed by Stivell's act of butchery against the Irish language. In ainm Croim! The man's a Breton-speaker, is he not? One would think his sense of pan-Celtic brotherhood would lead him to at least try to not abuse and distort another member of the family. The same problem devastates the track "Cease Fire" as well. That said, much of the instrumental work is brilliant. And in "Brian Boru," the one verse of Stivell's mutilated Irish is made tolerable by Ma/ire Breatnach (IIRC) singing a lovely setting of two verses from Caitli/n Maude's "Amhra/n Gra/ Vi/tnam," ("Vietnam Lovesong") a gorgeous testament to love in wartime. Of course, this has almost nothing to do with the tenth century High King of Ireland and ancestor of the Clann Ui/ Bhri/ain, but it _is_ beautiful. In many ways that odd juxtaposition sums up this album: quite lovely, but it makes little sense.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Alan does it again
9 Sep 2009
Format:Audio CD
Though this lacks the strident political overtones of his earlier music, it shows Alan Stivell to be as alive and vibrant as ever. Though my Gaelic is very rusty, I was able to enjoy this album and have found myself even humming quite a few of the tracks.
This album would please the more mainstream listener who would like an introduction to Keltica. And Alan Stivell is one of the great voices whose haunting singing, and etherial harp playing move through us like "The Winds of Keltia".
This album would please the more mainstream listener who would like an introduction to Keltica. And Alan Stivell is one of the great voices whose haunting singing, and etherial harp playing move through us like "The Winds of Keltia".
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