Bold

Catriona MacDonald | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 13, 2000)
• Original Release Date: June 13, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Compass Records
• ASIN: B00004TE25
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #37,897 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #54 in Music > Indie Music > World Music > Europe
  • #59 in Music > Folk > British & Celtic Folk > Celtic Folk

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ooh! I know what I like, and I like this, February 17, 2001

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Cloggerbrown (Channel Isles) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bold (Audio CD)

Why is Catriona Macdonald not an international superstar? Probably because she plays a "fiddle". If she played the violin; had legs up to her armpit, and a neckline to her navel, she would be a household name. I first heard of her after reading an article somewhere that mentioned that Mark Knopler's favourite album that particular year was "Opus Blue" by this particular lady. I tracked the CD down (nowhere to be found in the high street stores) and sat down and listened. The hairs on the back of my neck came up, which to me is a barometer to listening to or seeing something special. Of course as soon as I saw this new album out,[they] couldn't ship it fast enough to me. I was not disappointed. This is my No.1 album. Track 10, "Da silver bow, the joy of it", a duet between the "fiddle" and a church organ!!, is quite sublime. If I had heard this piece years ago, I would have walked out of the church on my wedding day to it. I'll just have to have it at my funeral. Thanks Mark for the introduction. Thanks Catriona for playing a "fiddle". Everybody else, buy the album and listen to something special.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Extraordinary., July 8, 2003

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Tom Knapp "Rambles.NET editor" (Lancaster, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bold (Audio CD)

Bold features a mix of Shetland traditional tunes, original pieces by MacDonald and a few other unfamiliar tunes. She has a colorful, passionate mastery of the music, from the fast-paced "Shetland Fiddle Diva/Purfy" and the melancholy "Michael's Mazurka" to the intense "Eilidh's Trip to Germany/The Monday Morning Reel/Land ta Lea" and the hard-to-describe "The Lost Ponytail/Dennis' Tune." Perhaps the most unusual moment comes in track 10 -- "Da Silver Bow/The Joy of It! -- which melds MacDonald's sweeping fiddle with Iver Kleive's church organ. It's an odd combination, to say the least, which is perhaps why I've spent so much time playing and replaying it. The set climaxes in a lofty inspirational finish, placing a nice cap on the album.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Breathtakingly superb, September 25, 2003

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Amy Keene "filleirlandaise" (Springfield, MO United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bold (Audio CD)

This is the best, THE BEST Celtic fiddle album I've ever heard. I like it better than Ashley MacIssac, Natalie MacMaster, and Eileen Ivers--there's just something so genuine and honest about Catriona MacDonald's playing! I once told a friend that if I had a choice between selling my "Bold" CD and eating, I'd choose the CD. No joke. I've listened to "Andy's Saltire/Maggie's Pancakes" literally thousands of times, and it is still as amazing to me as the first time I heard it at a listening station in a music store. I too wonder why she's not a bigger star--she certainly doesn't lack talent.