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I would highly recommend this product and seller. If you have aan interest in Uileann Pipes this CD is a must have. All the classical styles in the one cd and piper. Rí na bPioboirí 's é Leo Rowsome.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Folklorist Reg Hall's words about Leo Rowsome are a masterclass in damning with faint praise:
`A master musician, reliable, prolific in repertory, faultless in execution, his playing was four-square and predictable and somewhat relentless in his regulator work.'
Rowsome certainly does overdo it with the regulators - when the uillean pipes are compared to the organ, it's his playing that is being thought of. In mitigation, he's much better at it than the many who imitated his style; and there can be no doubting the quality of his chanter playing. However, there's always a certain genteel feel to his music; he consistently misses the darker, more interesting shades brought out by the Johnny Doran school. Or maybe, as the sleevenotes suggest, he needed a live audience to bring out the best in him. Still, this is a good listen. As it currently seems to be the only easily available album of old-time piping, you might be interested in hearing it while waiting for `King of the Travelling Pipers' to turn up again.
`A master musician, reliable, prolific in repertory, faultless in execution, his playing was four-square and predictable and somewhat relentless in his regulator work.'
Rowsome certainly does overdo it with the regulators - when the uillean pipes are compared to the organ, it's his playing that is being thought of. In mitigation, he's much better at it than the many who imitated his style; and there can be no doubting the quality of his chanter playing. However, there's always a certain genteel feel to his music; he consistently misses the darker, more interesting shades brought out by the Johnny Doran school. Or maybe, as the sleevenotes suggest, he needed a live audience to bring out the best in him. Still, this is a good listen. As it currently seems to be the only easily available album of old-time piping, you might be interested in hearing it while waiting for `King of the Travelling Pipers' to turn up again.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
The King of the Pipers for many
29 Nov 2003
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Rowsome was from a family of pipers, and his grandson is playing away now, making records and teaching the pipes like his father and grandfather. Leo's father, uncles, and grandfather were all reckoned as superb pipers in their own right, exponents of a rolling, smooth playing with a great deal of sweetness and melody to it. The genesis of this perhaps was in musical lessons his father and uncles received from a German musical teacher, whose name was, are you ready, Herr Jacob Blowitz; instructed on violin, piano, and trumpet, they went on to wide acclaim on the family instrument, the Union pipes, as they were known in those days; although they preferred another name for it, the Irish Organ, a reference to its harmonic capabilities. Leo became instructor on the pipes at the School of Music in Dublin in 1919, and made his first records in 1925; this academic side of his nature shows through clearly in his music, with its beautiful, ever-melodic settings of tunes, cleanly articulated chanter playing ("open" or legato with staccato used to give the tune shape), always in perfect tune, and most famously or infamously, his constant playing of the regulators for chordal accompaniment, utilizing them to their fullest with changes of rhythmic emphasis, the occasional pedal tones, and the complete range of their harmonic potential, including the use of C on the bass as as a suspended fourth in tunes in G, a lovely sound which is largely eschewed by modern pipers. Full of spirit and charm, Leo's music is the very model of piping; neglected or disdained by many since the revival of piping in the late 60's, more and more are discovering the joys and amazements of his music these days. While the two LPs this CD covers rightfully should have been followed with a third, covering the astonishing sets of reels he put down on record in 1948, these will do to bring his magic music back to new audiences.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
The King of Pipers Does it again!
7 Mar 2001
Format:Audio CD
This album is typical of the fantastic uilleann pipe playing of Leo Rowsome. Noted as the best player and maker of uilleann pipes of his time, this album is no exception. I highly reccomend this to anyone interested in the pipes or in traditional Irish music.
The King of Pipers Does it again!
8 Mar 2001
Format:Audio CD
This album is typical of the fantastic uilleann pipe playing of Leo Rowsome. Noted as the best player and maker of uilleann pipes of his time, this album is no exception. I highly reccomend this to anyone interested in the pipes or in traditional Irish music.
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