Pipes & Drums From Celtic Brittany

Bagad du Moulin Vert, Bagad ar Meilhou Glaz | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 11, 1999)
• Original Release Date: May 11, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Arc Music
• ASIN: B00000IMIZ
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #694,699 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Dérobée from Guingamp

2. "Ma Miche un Tamm Paper Gwen"

3. Tons Simples et Bals À Huit

4. Tons Doubles et Ton Triples

5. Ridées 6 and 8 Beats

6. Scottishes

7. Hanter-Dro et Dañs Klam

8. Kas a Barh

9. "Trouz AR Rouzig" and "Chanson À Boire du Haut- Léon"

10. "Gwerz Bro Rouzig"

11. Suite de l'Oust et du Lié

12. La Complainte de la Sainte Marthe

13. Suite d'An Dro

14. Pakist'andro

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars beautiful old music on uniquely Breton instruments, August 30, 2005

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m-starr (Washington D.C. area) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pipes & Drums From Celtic Brittany (Audio CD)

This is a great collection of pipe-and-drum music from the Breton region of France. Breton pipes are the biniou (a bagpipe) and the bombarde (a woodwind rather like an oboe). They sound great together, and their strong melodies are well complemented by drums -- but (just to warn you) their 'drone' is shrill and not necessarily to everyone's taste! The songs on the CD are traditional, in contrast to much other Breton music these days which applies modern instruments and creative styles to old Breton tunes. This old music has a beautiful, haunting quality that underlines that it's from another time. Its mystery and melancholy conjure up images of the region's rough North Atlantic coast -- and the beleaguered lighthouses along it that Jean Guichard has so fantastically photographed. Some songs sound fairly un-Celtic, including one that sounds like it should accompany a snake-charmer! Still, this is a great collection of Breton music in the instruments that are unique to this part of the Celtic world.