Allan MacDonald : Dastirum
Genre: Folk & Traditional
Catalogue Number: SIUBHAL2
Label: Unknown
Released: July 2007
Dastirum (the word is an encouragement - three cheers! be proud! bravo!) is a 69 page book with audio CD, featuring piping master Allan MacDonald and showcasing his stylistic approach to Piobaireachd. Allan MacDonald sings and plays 17th & 18th century Highland bagpipe music. The most exciting player of his generation, Allan is stimulating the renaissance of one of Europe's most soulful and majestic musical traditions.
Tracklist
- Lament for Alasdair Dearg (c.1630)
- Hiotrotro (chanting of the Urlar)
- Hiotrotro
- The Red Speckled Bull – by Ronald MacDonald of Morar (1662-1741)
- Lament for Donald of Laggan (1645)
- Hihorodo hao
- Port Jean Lindsay (1620s)
- I am proud to play a pipe
- A Lament
- Lament for Red Hector (1651)
- The End of the Little Bridge
- Lament for the Young Laird of Dungallan (1739)
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