Your favourite laments and slow airs

Subject: RE: Your favourite laments and slow airs
From: Gurney
Date: 11 Oct 03 - 03:18 AM

Surprised that no-one has posted 'the Flowers of the Forest,' which makes all Scots sad.

Subject: RE: Your favourite laments and slow airs
From: Little Robyn
Date: 11 Oct 03 - 03:30 AM

Or MacCrimmon's Lament, as sung by Isla St Clair about 30 years ago.
Then there's Derwentwater's Farewell, especially with Northumbrian pipes playing a harmony.
Robyn

Subject: RE: Your favourite laments and slow airs
From: greg stephens
Date: 11 Oct 03 - 04:10 AM

I'm rather partial to northern English/southern Scottish slow stuff. The Wild Hills of Wannies, The Northern Lass, and the Trip to Galloway(which has other titles as well, I think) all do great things to my emotions.

Subject: RE: Your favourite laments and slow airs
From: Fleadhman
Date: 11 Oct 03 - 07:52 AM

Lament for Oliver Goldsmith. The Dear Little Isle.   A Stor mo Chroi
Bliss!!!!

Subject: RE: Your favourite laments and slow airs
From: Brían
Date: 11 Oct 03 - 08:33 AM

AN RAIBH TÚ AR AN GCARRAIG(WERE YOU AT THE ROCK), AN BUACHAILLÍN BÁN(THE FAIR-HAIRED BOY) & 'SÉ FATH MO BHUARTHA(THE REASON FOR MY SORROWS).

Brían

Subject: RE: Your favourite laments and slow airs
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 11 Oct 03 - 06:03 PM

Amos, might whatshername be Enya?

I got the CD just for that one song.

Subject: RE: Your favourite laments and slow airs
From: LadyJean
Date: 11 Oct 03 - 11:35 PM

I was 15 when I first heard a piper play "Lachranach" (I hope I've spelled it right) It's been my favorite ever since.

Subject: RE: Your favourite laments and slow airs
From: GUEST,Sheila
Date: 12 Oct 03 - 04:14 PM

And now I'll have to add Marta Keen's "Homeward Bound." Sheila

Subject: RE: Your favourite laments and slow airs
From: GUEST,Peter Woodruff
Date: 12 Oct 03 - 04:34 PM

I don't know if this tune qualifies, but O'Carolans "Si Beag a Simoor" Or however you spell it, is my alltime favorite.

Peter

Subject: RE: Your favourite laments and slow airs
From: GUEST
Date: 13 Oct 03 - 07:57 AM

Marion, the question is subjective but if you listen to "Hector the Hero" played in the Cape Breton fiddle style it would be a great benchmark to compare anything else to for the greatest slow air.

Subject: RE: Your favourite laments and slow airs
From: GUEST,Hugh M
Date: 13 Oct 03 - 08:15 AM

What about "An Ataireachd Ard" (The High Surge, but usually known in English as The Eternal Surge of the Sea)and "Cearcall a' Chuain" (The Ocean's Cycle), both of which can be heard on Catherine-Ann McPhee's CD "Canan nan Gaidheal"? Also Eilean M'Araich (Island of my Upbringing) and Laoigh an Iasgair (The Fisherman's Hymn) sung by Mairi McInnes.

Subject: RE: Your favourite laments and slow airs
From: Mickey191
Date: 13 Oct 03 - 05:54 PM

Love The Salley Gardens & Boolavogue. Don't think anyone has mentioned Going Home. That's the saddest one for me.

Subject: RE: Your favourite laments and slow airs
From: Phil Cooper
Date: 13 Oct 03 - 11:03 PM

Neil Gow's Lament for the Death of His Second Wife, as the thread started. Herr Rolhoff's Farewell. Bovaglie's Plaid, Cro Kintail. The chorus bit of There is a Balm in Gilead. There's tons on favorite slow airs. I be hard pressed to pick just one.