The Gartan Mother's Lullaby - Choral Scholars of University College Dublin
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- čas přidán 6. 06. 2017
- Traditional Irish arr. Desmond Earley
Collected by Seosamh Mac Cathmhaoil (1879-1944)
From the album ‘Invisible Stars - Choral Works from Ireland and Scotland’
The Choral Scholars of University College Dublin
Artistic Director: Desmond Earley
Solo: Hazel Conway
Harp: Geraldine O'Doherty (track) / Claire O'Donnell (visual)
Released on Signum Records
Available to order on Amazon and iTunes
Amazon UK and IRL: amzn.to/1S3ZcHo
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iTunes UK: apple.co/1kCmN3P
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iTunes USA: apple.co/1S8nCjl
Sheet music: www.seoltamusic.com/details.ph...
The UCD Choral Scholars released their debut international recording on Signum Records on 11th December 2015 (USA and Canada - 12th February 2016). The disc, entitled Invisible Stars is an enchanting collection of traditional and contemporary choral music from Ireland and Scotland and features arrangements and new compositions by some of Ireland’s most celebrated composers for choir, including Michael McGlynn, Brendan Graham, Ivo Antognini, Bill Whelan and the group’s artistic director, Desmond Earley.
Video by Zucca Films: www.zuccafilms.ie/
A Zucca Films Production
DoP - Richard Kendrick
Editor - Emmet Reddy
Animator - Chris Lynch
Colourist - Leandro Arouca @ Media Milk, Dublin
Costume - Alex Calder
Art Director - Declan Winser
Website: www.ucdchoralscholars.ie
Facebook: / ucdchoralscho. .
Twitter: @UCDChoral - Hudba
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Such a beautiful song. We had it played at our mother's funeral. For us the perfect way to say good bye softly and kindly.
CZcams PLEASE for the love of all things sacred, take the ads off the middle and end of this video! Some of us actually use it as a lullaby to get to sleep, and nobody likes being jarred awake by the sudden loud jammin tune of a promo for FB messenger! Thanks! 🙃
CZcamsrs PLEASE get an adblock and stop complaining. You are like people who just walk across the street getting hit by cars and complaining "ban cars!" instead of looking around for crossings. Adblockers are those zebra crossings, install them, end of conversation!
@@gaiaakatheearth5604 you need to stop being an a$$ and copping an attitude!
They don’t need to have ads in the middle of a song. That’s not nice!
Pretty sure it's the choice of the channel whether to allow ads during the video or only at the beginning/end. You could always buy the album and support the singers....
@@bethmcmullan9872
If I wasn't broke I would consider it. But yeah, there's no need for ads at the end or in the middle. Plenty of white noise vids on here that are 10 hrs and only have ads at the beginning.
Haven't sung this song in decades--not since my boys were wee. A lovely reminder, although I doubt that the full choir would have put them to sleep :)
For me, the mark of a great song is its ability to both buoy your spirit with pure crystalline joy and thump you with melancholy so deeply that erratic breaths are a precursor to tears. This is wonderful music.
LYRICS
Sleep, O babe, for the red bee hums
The silent twilight's fall
Aoibheall (1) from the Grey Rock comes
To wrap the world in thrall.
A leanbhan O (2), my child, my joy,
My love and heart's desire,
The crickets sing you lullaby
Beside the dying fire.
Dusk is drawn, and the Green Man's Thorn (3)
Is wreathed in rings of fog:
Siabhra (4) sails his boat till morn
Upon the Starry Bog.
A leanbhan O, the paly moon
Hath brimmed her cusp in dew,
And weeps to hear the sad sleep-tune
I sing, O love, to you.
Faintly sweet doth the chapel bell
Ring o'er the valley dim:
Tearmann's (5) peasant-voices swell
In fragrant evening hymn.
A leanbhan O, the low bell rings
My little lamb to rest
And angel-dreams, till morning sings
Its music in your breast.
(Chorus)
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Notes
(1) Aoibheall is the queen of the northern fairies.
(2) Leanbhan means "little child".
(3) The Green Man - "They say if you see him in the morning, 'no ill follows'; but if at night, death or some other terrible misfortune will surely overtake you." -from "Songs of Uladh"
(4) Siabhra - Generic name for any type of Irish fairy.
(5) Tearmann is the village of "Termon" near Gartan in Donegal.
Thank you
Mile buiochais. 1000 thanks. My 'phone is not yet multilingual!
grMma!!!
Listening to this at 12:30am after a very long day of online work. I'm going to fall asleep very quickly and have peaceful dreams tonight. Thank you sweet angels. ❤️
If you don't love this choir and Irish music you have no soul. This stuff is all perfection.
Amazing everyone here is amazing. The soloist omg her voice filled the whole room every crack and crevice.
When I was little my mom used to bring me to choir practice. I learned how hard a choir works at rehearsal and how much care is put into a piece like this. This group obviously has worked very hard on their performance and it definitely shows.
And the love shows too.
These young people are so extremely talented....as is their director, of course! Their sound is ethereal.
His arrangements are also sublime which makes these singers shine like bright lights.
What an amazingly beautiful song sung by what sounds like angels here on this earth.
* the song came on a portable radio I was channel surfing on while sitting in a storm shelter awaiting severe weather.
The song was so beautiful that it put tears in my eyes & gave me a peaceful feeling.
I'm absolutely in love with this choir, you all do a fabulous job! Kudos from the US!!
Yep, wish them to keep that deep joy of collective singing
As another American I second this! Fantastic job! Your music soothes the soul.
I think also the same.
Beautiful! What a talented singing group - this and your videos on CZcams performing "The Parting Glass" and "Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair" are on my favorites list! It's great that students there are keeping these great old songs alive for the new generation!
Transported me to a magical place where my joy chills were found. Thank you.
I felt the same. Let's invent time machine!
(Thu 11 Mar 2021 18h03)
Harp solo for the win! This choir is fantastic!!!
This is so beautiful that I want to listen to it nonstop instead of sleeping.
This is a brilliant group of vocalists, but Hazel Conway's voice in her solo makes the hairs on my arms and neck stand on end -purity, clarity and strength.
Well done ...a bit better than we were in the mid 1960s!.....but I suppose we were part of the foundation..great to hear it so good. Gaudeamus igitur ad astra!
Me great granny would softly sing a verse of this (or something quite similar) on rare occasion, tho hardly so beautifully!
Beautiful as always. You guys need to do more songs in Gaelic, Mo Ghille Mear was absolutely amazing.
I second that statement!!
i´m from argentina but completly love with all celtic irish gaelilge culture,even i went to the beautiful green island and also here at patagonia, the lenguage is very conserved with the comunity. loveeee young people in ireland conserving it ! - ERIN GO BRAGH
Yes it is!
I second this. More Gaelic songs! So beautiful! Miceal O'hUigen
Yeah, that 'Mo Ghille Mear' is outstanding. When I listen to that, I feel as if I'm visiting ancient times. We need to invent a time machine soon.
(Thu 11 Mar 2021 18h02)
From an American; as a non-person in your art; it, your work, is Heavenly !! From my observation, naive, I heard: you, as, clouds over earth; blown by breeze - between selves; with souls, exchanging conversation with harp; meriting sincere praise !! Bravo !!
UCD Choral Scholars Rock. What a delight.
Everything you people do, and the way you do it, is amazing.
I cried so hard, thank you for all you do as a choir. You're a true gift to the world!
Spent a week in choir camp with the soloist. My favorite memory of that time is when 4 of us snuck off to a corner of the ancient church we were rehearsing in. We sang songs to each other from our home nations and she introduced me to The Parting Glass. Pure magic.
What a treat and a great memory.
This makes me feel like I'm in heaven. A momentary escape from the serious world.
Wonderful talented voices God has blessed us with. A joy to hear.
what a beautiful song and a sweet little video. brought a tear to my eye. :)
On my fifth time listening to this gift from heaven. Thank you for the peace you give.
I remember this from the Irishmen singing it in Lonesome Dove....love it in this setting
Y'all are so beautiful it hurts, the music and the fact that you have been called to it is just utterly, painfully beautiful.
Thank you for the amazing song. The singers were outstanding.
Would love to see them in concert and would love to see them in concert with one of the chorale groups at St Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, USA. You do this so beautifully! Thank you.
Glorious, haunting, fabulous choral work. Only hearing them for the first time. Look forward to many, many more heavenly performances. Mile buiochas diobh uilig. Eugene Quinn, now in Western Australia.
What a lovely video from my lovely Ireland. Beautifully sung and played!
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Oh my! Again just amazing! If I could sing just only a quarte as beautiful as this people, I would be a totaly happy man.
This piece calms my heart,thank you UCD.
I would be listening for UCD choir for hours. Hazel your voice is pure jewel. Grettings form France
Absolutely beautiful singing! Voices so crystal clear! I’d love to see them in person some day!
Buy the album it is fabulous.
Thank you to everyone for your support! We've opened up a virtual tip jar, any donation would be greatly appreciated :) Thank you from all the Choral Scholars. Stay safe :) www.ucdchoralscholars.ie/support
Absolutely gorgeous. The animation in the video is a very, very nice touch.
SO beautiful! I can't stop listening to this. It's so soothing, too.
Precioso, mi admiración por un pueblo que considero hermano
Saludos desde España.
Spain and Ireland brothers cauntrys
Fabulous, on every level.
A gorgeous song; beautifully sung. Thank you.
So moving and peaceful!
this channel is so underated...
really great songs
Simply magnificent. Thank you!
Beautiful... I love it! Greetings from Poland
Just .....beautiful. Well performed each and everyone....👍🏻
Brings peace to my soul
What a wonderful and refreshing choral talent, I have only discovered these recordings and know the voices will fill my world for time to time to come.
Wow, voice is such a powerful instrument. Beautiful.
Beautiful voices... and girls too !
First heard this song at a ballad session in the old physics theater , Earlsfort Terrace around 1966...can't remember the singer / group but I think it included Mick Moloney...great memories!
Am at the other side of the world. So thrill and in love listening to Irish song. My heart is Ireland.
Thank You For This Beautiful Gift Of Music🎵
This very peaceful I love allmusic
I will ask for acoustic asylum in Erie. You all, i mean all Irish, you all had a gift dricetly from god. There's music that comes somwhere from you, you all. Thank you.
I make it to 0.15 then I'm gone. 😥💜 How beautiful.
¿ Porqué los ojos de las irlandesas, tienen ése encantador color verde, como no he visto otros en ningún lado?
¿Será el reflejo del pasto, o los tréboles de la Isla Esmeralda?
Vaše hudba je jako lék, kdy podobné se léčí podobným. Když jsem smutná, pouštím si tuto vlastně také smutnou hudbu a duše se alespoň trochu zotaví...
Exquisite music and voices. They are very special indeed. Thankyou so much for uploading.
Charming, absolutely lovely
If I ever make it to Heaven,I hope the angels sing like this 24/7.This take me away from our earthly struggles.I dont want to leave this.
Another beauty. Thanks a million
Best wishes in this Christmas and into 2018 and the same to you, family and all friends...Thank you, good job...xx.
Wow, absolutely beautiful!
Beautiful arrangement, beautiful song, cool animation. Thank you for sharing! #subscribed
What a beautiful song AND video!
Absolutely beautiful.
With Corul Symbol of Bucarest my actual favourite choral !
only one word comes to mind...beautiful
The harp is the sovereign seal of the sovereign republic of Eire. A magical instrument from a magical isle.
Find a version of Danny Boy played by harp. There are a couple here on YT.
Somewhere from so deep inside, through I've never heard this before, I know this song. Somehow, somewhere, someone sang this to me. As she held me in her arms. I swear it's so.
Perhaps it's genetic deja vu..
Most likely just the Guinness bubbling back up LOL
Im following all your posts. Tis beyond beautiful
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great choir. glad that I can listen.
Such a unique song, and well done!
Absolutely Amazing Job!
Holy moly that is beautiful
Einfach nur schön
Heavenly!
Beautiful!
I came looking for Luke Kelly's version and found this one and Meryl Streep's. All beautiful and different.
Simply Magic
Beautiful...
Love your productions!
I hope to join one day because the songs you guys sing are so beautiful.
I am stunned. Wow.
What a gift.
lyrics by Seosamh MacCathmhaoil
Sleep O babe, for the red bee hums the silent twilight's fall,
Aoibheall from the grey rock comes, to wrap the world in thrall.
A leanbhan O, my child, my joy, my love my heart's desire,
The crickets sing you lullaby, beside the dying fire.
Dusk is drawn and the Green Man's thorn is wreathed in rings of fog,
Siabhra sails his boat till morn, upon the Starry Bog.
A leanbhan O, the paly moon hath brimmed her cusp in dew,
And weeps to hear the sad sleep-tune, I sing O love to you.
Faintly sweet doth the chapel bell, ring o'er the valley dim,
Tearmann's peasant voices swell, in fragrant evening hymn.
A leanbhan O, the low bell rings, my little lamb to rest,
And angel- dreams till morning sings, its music in your breast.
Mo cheol thu. 💚
beautiful!
Beautiful ! again....just found you tonight....very happy I did.
Cheers from USA
wunderschön !(Wow !!!
Beautiful and haunting.
Amazing!
Formidable !!!!
Jacques
Einfach hervorragend!