Clannad - The Last Rose of Summer

Clannad

Category:

Music

Tags:

• irish
• folk
• new
• age
• celtic
• gaelic
• gaeilge
• amhran
• moya
• maire
• brennan
• enya
• gaoth
• dobhair
• donegal
• rare

[Kingcobrasaurus]

Wait, so Celtic Woman DIDN'T make this song? Did they steal it, if they didn't write it? Do they even make their own songs?

[Sportymike]

@Kingcobrasaurus Celtic Woman didn't write ONE of the songs they've recorded! They simply sing old Irish songs made famous by the likes of Clannad! As a matter of fact, they covered 2 Enya songs (May It Be and Orinocco Flow) and Harry's Game by Clannad. Celtic Woman are just a bunch of pretty girls with nice voices, THAT IS ALL. They haven't written one song!

[Cookiemonster341]

Bad version. E.g. she pronounces "kindred" wrong.

[Sportymike]

@Cookiemonster341 You haven't a clue about Irish music quite obviously!

[gameball2003]

@Kingcobrasaurus Celtic Woman are a group of very talented Irish singers with even greater success in front of them . They have NOT stolen this song ,Just done a cover of it ,& a very good one at that . I hope you enjoy it .

[pneumatictrousers]

great enjoyable version, thanks

[joeygsmom]

@Sportymike most Americans have no idea about genuine Irish music, just the Mc Music they mass- produce.

I prefer this anyday.

[Cookiemonster341]

@Sportymike Well okay... on a second thought, I regret my comment. Per se it is NOT a bad version, it is just not my taste of the way I would like this piece of music to be interpreted. I'm sorry for my comment above. :-)

[AegisNova]

@Kingcobrasaurus The words are a poem by Irish poet Thomas Moore.

[AegisNova]

@Cookiemonster341 You'll have to do better than that.

[7LilyLuv7]

@gameball2003 Actually, this wasn't even a song to begin with. It's a poem from 1805. It was first turned into a song in 1807 - and has pretty much kept the same beautiful and touching melody for 200+ years, no matter who covers it.

Artists today can't touch masterpieces like this, no matter how hard they "try".

[magisterludi92103a]

For my money, I haven't heard a better singing of this than John Mc Dermott's rendition for a man's voice, or Renee Flemming's for a woman's. [although I've not heard Joan Sutherland's which I see here, but am about to!]...

[pichicatero]

Please, anyone, do you know which singer has the public domain version of this movie or how could I get rights to put it into a short film (with no money intentions!) Thanks!!

[11para35]

excellente!!!!! I like this version most!