- Audio CD (31 May 1995)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Dreyfus
- ASIN: B000024I7F
- Other Editions: Audio CD
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 412,343 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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5.0 out of 5 stars
The most amazing thing I've ever heard!,
By Hedge Witch "A Third Witch" (Milton Keynes, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Brian Boru (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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3.5 out of 5 stars (2 customer reviews) 7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Strange? Brilliant? Uneven? All of the Above!,
By Andrew Carey - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Brian Boru (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.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Alan does it again,
By Shimon de Valencia - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Brian Boru (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". |
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