Pipes at Yale - Piobaireachd and Classical Music

http://www.robinsonmcclellan.com/pibrochrecitals.htm
(for full video, all audio clips, and other info)

This concert introduced pibroch—the rarely heard seventeenth-century art music of the Highland Bagpipes—to a wider audience. Currently performed and appreciated almost entirely within an insular competition circuit, this sophisticated and hypnotic music from the golden age of Gaelic-speaking Scotland is due for a comeback. By presenting the music in concert rather than competition, we join a growing network of performers who have attracted audiences of hundreds to pibroch recitals in Europe and elsewhere.

The second purpose of the concert is to showcase pibroch's potential as a creative resource for composers. The string quartet work by Welch and the organ piece by McClellan were both informed by pibroch, and there is a considerable body of pibroch-related works in the classical repertory. We hope to show that this music, and the ancient compositional formulae and structures it uniquely preserves, can provide a wealth of new musical resources for creative musicians working today.

For more information about pibroch, visit: www.pibroch.net, www.piobaireachd.co.uk, and www.thepipingcentre.co.uk.

Visit Matthew Welch at www.myspace.com/matthewtobinwelch
Visit Robinson McClellan at www.myspace.com/robinsonmcclellan

Category:

Music

Tags:

• piobaireachd
• classical
• folk
• traditional
• scottish
• scotland
• pibroch
• highland
• gaelic

[perrypiobaireachd]

wy is this removed... i listend to it every day.

probabally because there are any naked chicks on this video so people don't watch this piece of excelent music... it's a SHAME.

[mcclellan4]

what do you mean about it being removed? it looks like it's still up!

[perrypiobaireachd]

Is this a tune from the kilberrybook ( page 90, no 84) ??

Or did Matt just put a taorluath a mach after the taorluath trebling!

ps I love his playing i listened several times.

because off this tune "here" I start also with this tune.... put the other tunes in a draw.

[mcclellan4]

Yes I think it's in Kilberry - not sure about the order of events, but I think you're right...

He is a great player.

[perrypiobaireachd]

on what brand off pipes is he playing

[mcclellan4]

Matt Welch tells me: "I play David Naill pipes and chanters."

[arobins74]

'S math sin!

[therealsunriseruby]

wonderful!



[tonygumbrell22]

timeless, priceless

[ThePunkFight]

amo la cornamusa

[runbambirun]

beautiful

[ofcelticblood]

Excellent playing. Beautiful piece of music. I'de like this played at my funeral for a good send off.

[satch11]

wow

[kohrsthomas]

@Offtofott

CEOL MÒR

[hfranke07]

Great great piobaireachd playing......... I have listen to this for a couple of weeks,- and the timing and tuning is just what I love about piobaireachd. Wow. Matthew Welch,- you rock.

[brokenchanter]

great tune, very well played.