celtic music #5: "bonny portmore"

Different versions of the same tune.Diverse versioni della stessa melodia:BONNY PORTMOREexcerpts from:- Loreena McKennitt: "Bonny Portmore" (album "Live in Paris and Toronto", 1999)- Laura Creamer: "Bonny Portmore" (from: "Highlander: the series" soundtrack, 1995)- Michael Maxwell: "Bonny Portmore" (album "Emerald forest: a celtic sanctuary", 1999)- Gregorian: "Bonny Portmore" (album "Masters Of Chant Chapter 2", 2004)- Angelo Branduardi: "Donna di luce" (different lyrics*, album: "Altro ed altrove", 2003) - the Rogues of Scotland: "Bonny Portmore" (album "the Rogues V.O", 2001)- Loreena McKennitt: "Bonny Portmore" (album "Nights from the Alhambra", 2007)- Loreena McKennitt: "Bonny Portmore" (album "the Visit", 1991)(loreena - live in paris and toronto)o bonny portmore, you shine where you standand the more I think on you, the more I think longif I had you now as I had once beforeall the lords of old england would not purchase portmore...(laura creamer)o bonny portmore, I am sorry to seesuch a woeful destruction of your ornament treefor it stood on your shore for many's the long daytill the long boats from antrim came to float it away...(gregorian)o bonny portmore you shine where you standand the more I think of you, the more I think longif I have you now as I have once beforeall the lords of old england would not purchase portmore...(loreena - nights from the alhambra)o bonny portmore, you shine where you standand the more I think on you, the more I think longif I had you now as I had once beforeall the lords of old england would not purchase portmore...(loreena - the visit)all the birds in the forest, they bitterly weepsaying "where shall we shelter? where shall we sleep?"for the oak and the ash, they are all cutten downand the walls of bonny portmore are all down to the ground...from the album's booklet "the Visit" (Loreena McKeniit):The destruction of old growth forests has become an important conservation issue in recent years, but it is not a new phenomenon. Over the centuries many of Ireland's old oak forests were leveled for military and shipbuilding purposes. Only recently has there been an effort to reestablish these great hardwoods. The Great Oak of Portmore stood on the property of Portmore Castle on the shore of Lough Beg. - L.M.*from the album's booklet "Altro ed Altrove - parole d'amore dei popoli lontani" (Angelo Branduardi):Antica lirica irlandese. Sec'. IX.II dio Midir invita la donna che in passato fu il suo amore ed ora e' la moglie del re di Tara. a seguirlo nel suo magico regno al di là dell'Oceano... la Terra della Giovinezza, dove il vino scorre a fiumi e nessuno muore prima di essere ormai vecchio. Ancient Irish song. Sec'. IX. The god Midir invites the woman that in the past was his love and now is the wife of the king of Tara to follow him in his magical kingdom outside the Ocean... The Land of the Youth, where the vine flows like a river and no-one die before being old...Antique chant irlandais. Sec'. IX. Le dieu Midir invite la femme qui fut par le passé son amour et qui maintenant est l'épouse du roi de Tara, à le suivre dans son royaume magique au delà de l'Océan... la Terre de la Jeunesse, où le fin coule à flots et personne ne meurt avant que de n'être vieux...Antike irische Lyrik. IX Jahrhundert.Der Gott Midir lädt die Frau ein - die früher seine Geliebte war und jetzt die Ehefrau des Königs von Tara ist - ihm zu folgen in sein magisches Reich jenseits des Ozeans... Das Land der Jugend, wo der Wein in Flüssen fliesst und niemand stirbt, bevor er alt ist...

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Uploaded: February 13, 2008 at 12:09 am
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