I’m what you might call a stoic man, hardened by a lifetime of difficult construction work. But this music brings me to tears. Truly beautiful testament of humanity’s vicarious search for the divine.
@@paulaarmstrong8431 I believe it speaks to our deep, ancestral memories. Memories of love and pain, of oppression and of true freedom, long since vanished. To quote another Scottish musician, "it's only freedom calling".
@@sabbey- That is a very eloquent response. I do believe you are right. I have read a few songwriters and composers who said that they felt that some of their best compositions were preexistent. The songs weren’t something they created themselves, but something they were given.
this brilliant piece of music should be the scottish national anthem..... only a celt can feel this great sense of national pride it gives people. bit jealous being irish none the less this musician has composed a tune that will endure many life times and for that ta an biochas orainn.....
?? Seriously? This is the most average version I've ever heard. Jenny does a better version also the version on the Last of the Mohicans soundtrack is better.
I think he's just responsible for this song. The soundtrack was by Randy Edleman and Trevor Jones. They adapted this man's song and included it in the soundtrack as well, with credit to him. Since it is the main theme of the song, much credit should go to him as well, of course.
I like how tenderly he guides the bow. Not much upper body jerking, or swaying from left to right... just delicate movements. If you muted the music you‘d never expect so much energy and liveliness in the melody. So much that‘s going on in his mind and soul, such focus and heart. I can see the deer break through the underbrush of trees, Le Long Carabine and Uncas chasing after... I can smell the rich forests of North Carolina and the Smokey Mountains where the final scene of LoM was shot. I can feel the ups and downs of life - inspiration and disappointment side by side. Melancholy and joy like twin brothers.
@@pablokaufervinent8012 that works for me as well. Was there only once, but was able to hike in the hills of Rob Roy some. Beautiful country and people!
OOOH! Stephan, you have a gift with words; you should really consider writing some poetry, lyrics, prose,..something! don't let your talent go to waste!
Wow, great respect to bagpipers! I understand they are quite difficult to play. So grateful we have devoted musicians like you! The heart of Scottish music.
I'd always thought this was a traditional Scottish classic. Well, it is now!! Sir, I can't thank you enough for composing this song. Every time I hear a version of it, I save it in a file titled "The Gael/Last of the Mohicans". It is an honor to hear you play this. ❤
Here's a MacLean many-instruments concert version that doesn't use bagpipes: czcams.com/video/4v8pM7cHrT8/video.html -- I've been alternating between these 2 versions. (The bagpipes didn't help that other not-MacLean version, what a mess.)
We used to be friends with Dougies cousin here in New Zealand, she brought a tape back from her visit to Scotland which we have, its not a reproduction its the real thing she had recorded when he played at these events. A most haunting tune thanks Dougie
It will be one of the pieces of music played at my funeral. I have met the man and seen him perform several times. He lives only 50 miles from me in Scotland.
I've been watching this for years and it will never grow old. When I hear this song, especially this version, it is very special. It takes me on a voyage from my home here in the northeastern US and transports me over the places I traveled. I can recall the times of my past driving through the Adirondack Mountain areas of New York state on my way to Montreal. It makes me think of times hundreds of years ago when that area was a significant part of North American and international history like in The Last of the Mohicans.
Good on you Dougie, so many don't know your great creation. To hear about free performances is just pure humility. Your gentle change of note is divine. Thankyou.
Incredible, I was up on the hills today, climbing 2 munros Beinn a'Chaorainn and Beinn Teallach. The previous evening I had been in aviemore listening to BBC Scotland and this song came on. I am familiar with it and gives me goosebumps everytime. Back to the hills, I had this overwhelming urge to play this song, Miraculously I had phone signal and I played this version. I was on the ridge line on top of Beinn a'Chaorainn and I started running along the ridge with incredible views of the summit, it gave me an overwhelming feeling of joy, connected to the mountain, free from the shackles of work and I was completely present in the moment. I had tears running down my cheeks and in that moment I was completely happy and grateful for being able to experience that moment. Thank you Dougie for giving us this masterpiece.
This has happened to me as well, but it was in the Rocky Mountains. I was high up overlooking the Garden of the Gods and played this song. I felt like a baby, but didn't care.
Dougie the living legend performs his legacy with passion par excellence. The music is divine, breathtaking and mesmerising. I miss a beat every time I listen to it.
I randomly thought about The Last of the Mohicans, and it brought me here. Such a great movie, and a great piece of music. It hits me right in all the feels.
If there’s ever a piece of music that stirs up a primal emotion in you that makes you want to fight for and protect your family until your last then this is it. Reminds me of my dad so much.
Thank god to hear the composer play this after tons of covers from the Hot Violist to whomever. It is ": The Gael" Leave the Mohicans out of it. Look at his composition .."The Osprey" which is brilliant also.
Since I came across the cover by Jenny O'Connor and her band Circa Paleo a week or so ago I have been looking for a recording by Dougie Maclean, and also the music score. Jenny O'Connor is a good player and gets all the attention because she is young and pretty but the pathos and raw emotion of the original is just not quite there. Perhaps it is because the American music scene is just very different from the UK. I see wonderful costumes and the audience sitting down on nice clean straw bales but I don't see people visibly moved by one of the most emotional melodies I have ever experienced. Dougie Maclean is one of the greatest composers of our time and not appreciated as much as he should be. Typing with a sore throat and a tear in the corner of my eye - and a dram of whisky by my side.
Been a huge Dougie MacLean fan since the '80's when I was associated with a community radio station (KNON in Dallas) that had a Celtic music program, and the DJ played several of Dougie's tunes that were recorded live. I just now found out Dougie composed this tune. Wow.
So powerful and beautiful if they were words what would they be? Definitely the the most beautiful Melody I've ever had the privilege of hearing best instrumental I've ever heard in my life ever since I was a kid it captured me wonderful musician thank you
I am not Scottish and even less British but certainly my heart is Scottish Gaelic, from the Highlands region more precisely. Listening to this music makes you feel as though you are free, as free as the wind that travels and caresses the mountains of Scotland.Because this music reflects the soul of Gaelic Scotland. If you want to know Scotland first listen to this
@@larrym.johnson9219 Certainly my friend !! And the coincidence that many Scottish or Irish-Scottish Gaelic settled in the regions of the Appalachians during the colonial period
Wonderful to hear Dougie play this last night at his solo on line concert His son prepared a backing track to enable to enjoy this fabulous fiddle tune.
As you get old and near the end it must be satisfying to know that if nothing else, you have written one of the greatest tunes of all time.
Dougie is nowhere near getting to the end!!
@@TheMimifur Well, objectively, he is.
@@Cheximusno
I’m what you might call a stoic man, hardened by a lifetime of difficult construction work. But this music brings me to tears. Truly beautiful testament of humanity’s vicarious search for the divine.
When they play music in heaven, this song will be on the play list. Absolutely beautiful melody.
And there must be golf and coffee to go along with it. Peace.
This is one of the most beautiful melodies ever written, imo.
Yes it is
It’s like it comes from another realm.
@@paulaarmstrong8431
I believe it speaks to our deep, ancestral memories. Memories of love and pain, of oppression and of true freedom, long since vanished.
To quote another Scottish musician, "it's only freedom calling".
@@sabbey- That is a very eloquent response. I do believe you are right. I have read a few songwriters and composers who said that they felt that some of their best compositions were preexistent. The songs weren’t something they created themselves, but something they were given.
@@paulaarmstrong8431 Yes. The Gael truly is a gift. And Dougie shared it with us so perfectly.
I never get tired of hearing this man play. Just beautiful and haunting.
Througout this weird year, Dougie has done free concerts all the time. he is a true hero
Aye.
Hope he keeps performing - the weird year ain‘t over yet..
@@Winchester1973 yeah this year sucks but his music is beautiful. …..stay safe everyone,
Say hello to him for me, an Australian fan.
@@Winchester1973 Dougie is still going. 104 and counting... with the Tattiefaces...
this brilliant piece of music should be the scottish national anthem.....
only a celt can feel this great sense of national pride it gives people.
bit jealous being irish none the less this musician has composed a tune that will endure
many life times and for that ta an biochas orainn.....
No one else on this planet can bring this song to life other than dougie himself. Respect.
I've heard many lovely, stirring, iterations of this theme brought to life, but Mr.Maclean's is the purest version.
?? Seriously? This is the most average version I've ever heard. Jenny does a better version also the version on the Last of the Mohicans soundtrack is better.
@@lukecage3569 Seriously???? I don't give af what you think, Luke, lmao
@@paulaarmstrong8431 Right back at you, loser skank. 🤣🤣🤣
@@lukecage3569 Oh, no, some random incel on the internet doesn't like my musical taste and he thinks I'm a skank! Whatever will I do? 🤡
If you have a heart at all... you can't not stop and listen to this, Thank You Dougie Maclean
This will never get old
ALL you people that think the Gael is beautiful haunting and makes you proud to be of Scottish descent..... I am with you....
So this is the great man behind this epic and historic sound track
Exactly dude
I think he's just responsible for this song. The soundtrack was by Randy Edleman and Trevor Jones. They adapted this man's song and included it in the soundtrack as well, with credit to him. Since it is the main theme of the song, much credit should go to him as well, of course.
He and Daniel Lanois (producer). Lanois is a legend in the music industry. Look at his work.
I like how tenderly he guides the bow. Not much upper body jerking, or swaying from left to right... just delicate movements. If you muted the music you‘d never expect so much energy and liveliness in the melody. So much that‘s going on in his mind and soul, such focus and heart. I can see the deer break through the underbrush of trees, Le Long Carabine and Uncas chasing after... I can smell the rich forests of North Carolina and the Smokey Mountains where the final scene of LoM was shot. I can feel the ups and downs of life - inspiration and disappointment side by side. Melancholy and joy like twin brothers.
I suspect he might have been thinking more of the Highlands in Scotland. Perhaps the Campbells chasing some renegade Jacobite.
@@pablokaufervinent8012 that works for me as well. Was there only once, but was able to hike in the hills of Rob Roy some. Beautiful country and people!
OOOH! Stephan, you have a gift with words; you should really consider writing some poetry, lyrics, prose,..something! don't let your talent go to waste!
Beautiful words ❤
Such an amazing and heart-wrenching scene!
What a legacy,to live on forever. A masterpiece
Oh good Lord, as a bagpiper, this speaks volumes, the soul, the depth of the notes and the expression!!!!!!
Wow, great respect to bagpipers! I understand they are quite difficult to play. So grateful we have devoted musicians like you! The heart of Scottish music.
Absolute magic the most beautiful soundtrack in film history
Awwwe... Dougie-Dougie..... I love this man's contribution to the world!!
Absolutely love this version and I love Dougie’s famous song”Caledonia”
Always gives me chills
This is an amazing piece. Dougie is the only one that can play it so
you got that right! every one who tries, they miss the irish/scottish swing that makes it so appealing
I'd always thought this was a traditional Scottish classic. Well, it is now!!
Sir, I can't thank you enough for composing this song. Every time I hear a version of it, I save it in a file titled "The Gael/Last of the Mohicans".
It is an honor to hear you play this. ❤
That there is.... perfection.
You can listen to it again and again and again.
Dougie that is so beautiful it breaks my heart
If ever I had to pick one song for the rest of my days . This would definitely be it. THANK YOU FOR BLESSING US WITH SUCH A WONDERFUL MELODY...
When I first watched this movie I was so captured by this piece of music! Magnificent!
Incidentally, mine would also be a violin piece: Bach's Ciaccona.
I cry every time i listen...listen close hes telling such a story!
This is how it should be performed. Not huge orchestras. Not guitar. Not harp. No bagpipes. No other instrument but fiddle and by this man.
so true
You may have noticed there are other instruments in the recording which is probably how he wrote it, yet I get what you mean - original is best.
@@Frank-ed7hj No bagpipes though??? ;)
Indeed
Here's a MacLean many-instruments concert version that doesn't use bagpipes: czcams.com/video/4v8pM7cHrT8/video.html -- I've been alternating between these 2 versions. (The bagpipes didn't help that other not-MacLean version, what a mess.)
This makes me proud of my Scottish roots. 🏴🎻
We used to be friends with Dougies cousin here in New Zealand, she brought a tape back from her visit to Scotland which we have, its not a reproduction its the real thing she had recorded when he played at these events. A most haunting tune thanks Dougie
Wow, what a special moment to hear the Great Original play his piece! Just gorgeous!
The music is so beautiful and excellent that almost 20 years ago I set it as my ringtone, and I'm going to keep it for the next 20 years.
It will be one of the pieces of music played at my funeral. I have met the man and seen him perform several times. He lives only 50 miles from me in Scotland.
@@scrimmy45 Please say hello to him for me.
Cheers from Australia 🇭🇲
It’s my ring tone too brilliant piece of music and a brilliant movie score
I've been watching this for years and it will never grow old. When I hear this song, especially this version, it is very special. It takes me on a voyage from my home here in the northeastern US and transports me over the places I traveled. I can recall the times of my past driving through the Adirondack Mountain areas of New York state on my way to Montreal. It makes me think of times hundreds of years ago when that area was a significant part of North American and international history like in The Last of the Mohicans.
Beautiful. Simple. Authentic.
Best solo rendition ever... Does not even skip the octave 👏👏👏👌
It should be since he wrote it
Thank you Mr. McLean for writing the most beauiful blood stirring piece of music i have ever heard! I have goosebumps!
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Good on you Dougie, so many don't know your great creation. To hear about free performances is just pure humility. Your gentle change of note is divine. Thankyou.
Moving and beautiful.
Incredible, I was up on the hills today, climbing 2 munros Beinn a'Chaorainn and Beinn Teallach.
The previous evening I had been in aviemore listening to BBC Scotland and this song came on. I am familiar with it and gives me goosebumps everytime.
Back to the hills, I had this overwhelming urge to play this song, Miraculously I had phone signal and I played this version. I was on the ridge line on top of Beinn a'Chaorainn and I started running along the ridge with incredible views of the summit, it gave me an overwhelming feeling of joy, connected to the mountain, free from the shackles of work and I was completely present in the moment. I had tears running down my cheeks and in that moment I was completely happy and grateful for being able to experience that moment.
Thank you Dougie for giving us this masterpiece.
What a wonderful moment. I can imagine myself do exactly the same, thanks for sharing! :)
This has happened to me as well, but it was in the Rocky Mountains. I was high up overlooking the Garden of the Gods and played this song. I felt like a baby, but didn't care.
I was on the summit of Mt. Washington in New Hampshire, listening to this...Wind was blowing at 189 mph, wind chill of -50 - - I died.
Wow!
@@neilcarter77 oops!
Beautiful..
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Million thanks to this man!
God bless ❤️
Yes! This sound speaks to the heart of a true Scot, as I am one. 💙
Also to a fellow Gael, from Eire, the soul bleeds in a way only Gaels can understand. This composition is monumentally important.
Regards from Brittany, this theme is moving for us too...
Masterpiece! ❤
So incredibly beautiful
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Dougie the living legend performs his legacy with passion par excellence.
The music is divine, breathtaking and mesmerising. I miss a beat every time I listen to it.
Great performance by this gifted performer and composer.
I randomly thought about The Last of the Mohicans, and it brought me here. Such a great movie, and a great piece of music. It hits me right in all the feels.
this song is by far the best part from the movie...amazing Dougie, thanks!
oh my God ..Beautiful !!!!❤❤❤
If there’s ever a piece of music that stirs up a primal emotion in you that makes you want to fight for and protect your family until your last then this is it. Reminds me of my dad so much.
love watching Dougie keeping time with his left foot. This is so beautifully done -- so proud he wrote this!
One of the most memorable tracks, played like a dream. It's out of the world. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Wish I could live in Scotland and listen to this every morning on the streets, regards from Spain!
Regards from Perth Scotland 🏴
@@SuperRichy5 wish to be there too. North Spain, we are Celts too
I'd have to come with you,honestly
@@TheIjk07 let's do it!!
@@MelkorStorm you bet! Kelt from Appalachia WV America.
I know it was composed recently, but this is still what my old man would call a "rare ol' tune". ❤
What can I say? He KILLED it!
Beautiful music Dougie. Thanks for writing and sharing it.
From the master himself! one of my all time favorites 👌
One of my very favourite pieces of music and beautifully played.
One of the best music in entire history. Thanks Duugie.
Last Saturday was concert 104, Dougie is a hero....
Who can dislike this? You should have no heart
Thank god to hear the composer play this after tons of covers from the Hot Violist to whomever. It is ": The Gael" Leave the Mohicans out of it. Look at his composition .."The Osprey" which is brilliant also.
Since I came across the cover by Jenny O'Connor and her band Circa Paleo a week or so ago I have been looking for a recording by Dougie Maclean, and also the music score. Jenny O'Connor is a good player and gets all the attention because she is young and pretty but the pathos and raw emotion of the original is just not quite there. Perhaps it is because the American music scene is just very different from the UK. I see wonderful costumes and the audience sitting down on nice clean straw bales but I don't see people visibly moved by one of the most emotional melodies I have ever experienced. Dougie Maclean is one of the greatest composers of our time and not appreciated as much as he should be. Typing with a sore throat and a tear in the corner of my eye - and a dram of whisky by my side.
Been a huge Dougie MacLean fan since the '80's when I was associated with a community radio station (KNON in Dallas) that had a Celtic music program, and the DJ played several of Dougie's tunes that were recorded live. I just now found out Dougie composed this tune. Wow.
Without the Gael, the last of the Mohicans soundtrack would never sound like it does.
Yes, it amuses me the way people go on about the Mohican spirit in this ... it is pure Gaelic. Dougie makes that fiddle talk. He is a Master.
Outstanding piece of music from the best their is ….🏴
love that's song ... far far better then the movies !
This makes me emotional every single time I listen. What a Masterpiece!
Perfection!
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This is an especially beautiful rendition.
Jedno z najlepszych wykonań tej muzyki poprostu cud!
Dougie plays the fiddle just like his wonderful singing voice, simply superb.
So powerful and beautiful if they were words what would they be? Definitely the the most beautiful Melody I've ever had the privilege of hearing best instrumental I've ever heard in my life ever since I was a kid it captured me wonderful musician thank you
I am not Scottish and even less British but certainly my heart is Scottish Gaelic, from the Highlands region more precisely. Listening to this music makes you feel as though you are free, as free as the wind that travels and caresses the mountains of Scotland.Because this music reflects the soul of Gaelic Scotland. If you want to know Scotland first listen to this
Did you know?that the mountains in Scotland were once part of the Appalachian mountains before the continental drift happed about 3 billion years ago.
@@larrym.johnson9219 Certainly my friend !! And the coincidence that many Scottish or Irish-Scottish Gaelic settled in the regions of the Appalachians during the colonial period
Last of the Mohicans is one of the most beautiful soundtracks for a movie. I used some of them for veil when I used to belly dance.
Phenomenal talent Composer singer and musician.This is so beautiful.Seems he is a fine person as well.Thank you Dougie
Oh how I feel every note..... It is one of the most Beautiful 💚
Lucky to see this moment
Wonderful to hear Dougie play this last night at his solo on line concert His son prepared a backing track to enable to enjoy this fabulous fiddle tune.
That's how it should sound.
Beyond compare…💚
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Beautiful piece of music.....
Thrillingly beautiful!
What a treasure!
I’ve never understood what this had to do with the French Indian war, but I love it.
This raw talent no computers etc the best version in my opinion what you would hear in any highland kaylie magical
❤❤ beautifully haunting!❤️👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Absolutely beautiful. I want to play this!
wow, thank you janice for uploading and sharing this beautiful piece from dougie himself. blessings to everyone watching.
Soul tearing
The one and only dougie McLean fabulous
Love this.
Brings back old memories.
Most beautiful tune.
And glad to see the man behind it.
It's like he's telling you a story .
Blows me away every time I hear
very nice indeed
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beautiful
I swear this song makes me cry every time. There is something indescribably deep to this melody. Literally wrenches my soul.
For a Scot far from home this Christmas, this is heartbreaking. 💓
Jane - Having been caught up in the Scottish Diaspora for more than 50 years now, I know how you feel - VERY deep sigh !
Beautiful
If I had not listened to your violin I could never come to know my day to day life has so much pain hidden in it
magnifico ARTISTA!
FINALLY FOUND IT I was looking for this EXACT version of Mr MacLean. I found it on his album "Essential Too" and of course I bought it !!!!!
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Music that will no doubt inspire warriors and fighters for generations to come!
Wonderful - thank you so much for sharing, Janice - great to see Dougie MacLean performing one of his greatest pieces. Love from Australia!