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Bagpipes & Brass | 
 enlarge | Creators: Leroy Anderson, Anonymous, Percy Grainger, Gustav Holst, Michael Korb, John Mcleod, P. Monjarret, W. Robb, Mark Saul, James Scott Skinner, Scottish Traditional, Spiritual Traditional, Ralph Vaughan Williams, John Williams, Kenneth Singleton, Denver Brass, John Kuzma
Label: Klavier
Category: Music
List Price: $15.99
Buy New: $15.76
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 174799
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
UPC: 019688110727
EAN: 0019688110727
ASIN: B00005AAZ6
Release Date: October 1, 2000
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| Tracks:
| • | Highland Cathedral | | • | Scotland the Brave | | • | Girl I Left Behind Me | | • | Hector the Hero | | • | Far and Away | | • | Green Hills of Tyrol/When the Battle Is Over | | • | Lament for Jef AR Oenven/An Dro | | • | Murray's Fancy | | • | I Love My Love | | • | Cabar Feidh/Farewell to Nigg | | • | Ye Banks and Braes O' Bonnie Doon | | • | Henry the Fifth Overture | | • | Amazing Grace |
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| Customer Reviews:
 Virtuoso Players Gild the Lilly April 19, 2007
J. PAUFF (Texas)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Reviewers who write that these are fine musicians playing lousy arrangements are correct. That's it exactly. The slower cuts are better than the up-tempo ones. Apparently this CD is a big hit with bagpipe tooters. So be it. The rest of us should pass it by or purchase it used.
 Keep looking - there is much better stuff than this October 4, 2005
T. Madden (Glen Ridge, NJ USA)
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
This album is a perfect example of how a bad arrangement can ruin great music despite the best efforts of great musicians. Everything about this recording is right; selection, performers, sound engineering. Except that the tracks are horribly over-arranged with all sorts of distracting, subtracting variations and trite bridging passages.
Diasppointed July 12, 2005
S. A. Wood (Nashville, TN. USA)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I am not saying the music is bad or the quality is lacking, because it is not. If you are looking for traditional music played in the traditional way, then this CD is not for you. It is like listening to everyone's interpretation when they sing the "Star Spangled Banner". There is no need to jazz things up that were not written to be. The titles are old but the variations on the score have a lot to be desired if you wanted to hear these songs played the way they were meant to be played.
This album is an absolute disaster June 8, 2005
Colin L. Aitken (Lawrenceville, NJ USA)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
It's said that music soothes the savage beast, but bagpipes will do just the opposite. They will make the hair on your neck stand on end, your blood pressure go through the roof and prepare you to go to war. This album does neither.
The one piece which should most strongly produce the desired result is Scotland the Brave. In this album it is three minutes and twenty seven seconds, the first minute an ten of which are dedicated to fanfare. After that an orchestra plays some stylized version and, I think, I can detect a hint of bagpipes in there somewhere. When one has heard it done "correctly", one can recognize this as a total disaster.
Amazing Grace by the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards has a version that is just about right. (And that selection gives one the ability to listen to a sample. I can see why this one doesn't!)
 Take My Advice, I'm Only Tryin' to School Ya - July 7, 2004
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
I bought this album based on the rave reports of the other reviewers, and could NOT be more pleased with the result. Although not Scottish, I am a long-time bagpipe lover, and this album evokes visions of the Black Watch and other highland pipers moving through their intricate paces. The music is an aural feast, and the sound quality is excellent. I keep it in the CD player in the car and find that a quick drive or a long commute both become pleasures when I'm listening to it. Take my advice - if you have even a slight interest in pipes, drums or brass, you're going to love this album. (This is the first time I have ever written a review; it's a very compelling album!)
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