Of Dreams Forgotten and Fables Untold

Pagan

Sons And Daughters (of Robin Hood)

01 Holly Lord

Glowworm-Contrails

In the beginning there was the Void.
And in that Void there was silence.
But there came upon the Void a Sacred Breath,
And thus the Void began to turn.
And in that turning a shape emerged,
Moving, turning, drawing in,
Edges of the Void began to form,
And as the edges formed they became like iron,
So the shape grew into that of the great Spinning Cauldron.
And the Cauldron held the Void within its heart.

As the Cauldron turned so it created the first sound,
A single note that filled the Void,
A voice singing in praise of its own creation,
A voice that called into the Void,
And that note became a word,
And the word was Don,
And Don became the earth, and rock, and stone,
And thus it was that land was formed.

Don sang her note of the Land,
But Don was lonely.
She was dark and barren,
So Don wept in her loneliness,
And her salt tears became the seas, rivers and oceans,
And so it was that the Cauldron sung its second note,
And harmony was born into the darkness,
As the note of Land, joined with the note of sea,
Llyr raised his head from the water,
Don felt his kiss upon her skin,
With every breaking wave.
And she smiled.

So the sea caressed the land,
Llyr’s touch upon her dark skin,
And Don sighed with pleasure,
As a third note was sung,
And the harmony became a song,
The breath of love,
Of Llyr and Don,
Of sea and land,
Created the sky,
And Beli Mawr opened his shining eye,
And there was light.

A Celtic Creation Story - Damh the Bard

Compositions by ancient lyre virtuoso Lina Palera, playing on a "Marvelous Lyre of Olympus", a top quality and fully functional replica of ancient Greek lyre made by Luthieros Workshop (as part of the "Lyre 2.0 Project").
The composition is based on our player's modern improvisations, generally inspired by ancient Greek melodies that have survived...
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Marvelous Lyre of Olympus (Ancient Greek Lyre - 11 strings) - Luthieros@Etsy

Scottish lute, cittern and "guittar" music of the 17th and 18th centuries, performed by Rob MacKillop.

09 Canaries

Grizzly Caterpillar is the forth studio album by Australian acoustic guitarist Alan Gogoll. A mixture of both new and older pieces, Grizzly Caterpillar is a further refinement and exploration of the solo guitar, featuring Alan's own 'bell harmonics' technique and signature guitar tuning. To capture a softer and more subtle sound for this album, each of the 15 tracks were performed on a nylon string guitar and recorded over a two day period at Zion Songs Studios in Margate, Tasmania. Artwork by Fran Evans.

Whimsical Toad

The 100th birthday of Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, one of the reigning sopranos of the second half of the 20th century, falls on 9 December 2015. She died in 2006, but her recordings are timeless treasures of the Warner Classics catalogue. Like her close contemporary and friend, Maria Callas, Schwarzkopf is a representative of a golden era of recording; but while Callas is closely identified with Italian composers and specifically with opera, Schwarzkopf is admired above all in music of the Austro-German tradition, both opera and song.

The 31-CD deluxe box set, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf: The Complete Recitals 1952-1974, to be released on 6 November, gathers together all the recital programmes of song, opera and operetta that Schwarzkopf recorded for EMI between 1952 and 1974 with Walter Legge – who became the soprano’s husband in 1953 – as producer. Schwarzkopf and Legge conceived each programme with the greatest of care, and this collection respects and retains the integrity of every recital, with no recoupling or reorganisation of the tracks. In addition, the recordings have been remastered to the highest standards in 24-bit/96kHz: Schwarzkopf’s art emerges in all its beauty, refinement and detail.

Schubert: An Die Musik, D 547 (Edwin Fischer, piano)

guitar: Seikilos Duet (Nektarios Garatzotis & George Bar)
composed by GeorgeBar

Hymn to Helios - part 2 (Ancient Greek Music)

Lonely Man - Written by Paul McKenna, PRS/MCPS

Elements is the third album from the award winning Paul McKenna Band.

Release date: 1st June 2013

www.paulmckennaband.com

Produced by The Paul McKenna Band
Engineered by David McNee at North Park Studios, Barrhead, Glasgow
Mixed by Julian Kindred at Nonsuch Park Studios, Epsom, Surrey
Mastered by Brad Blackwood at Euphonic Masters

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