The Virgin's Lament (Caoineadhi Na Maighdine)

The Virgin's Lament (Caoineadhi Na Maighdine)

The Virgin's Lament (Caoineadhi Na Maighdine)
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Composer: Noirin Ni Riain
Composer: Irish Traditional
Composer: Christmas Traditional
Composer: Pilib O Laoghaire
Composer: Cait Ni Ghallchobhair
Composer: Gregorian Chant
Performer: Nóirín Ní Riain
Edition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 1998-09-29
Music Label: Sounds True Direct
Soundtracks:
  1. Caoineadh Mhuire (Mary's Keen)
  2. Gol Na DTri Muire (The Weeping Of The Three Marys)
  3. The Darkest Midnight
  4. Seacht NDolas Na Maighdine Muire Uibh Rathach (The Seven Sarrows Of The Virgin Mary I)
  5. An Bhainis Phosta A Bhi I GCana (The Wedding Feast At Cana)
  6. Seacht NDolas Na Maighdine Muire (The Seven Sorrows Of The Virgin Mary II)
  7. An Caoineadh (The Keen)
  8. Caoineadh Na HAoine (Friday Lament)
  9. Posadh Naofa Cana (The Holy Wedding At Cana)
  10. Destera Domini (The Lord's Right Hand)
  11. Caoneadhi Na Maighdine (The Blessed Virgin's Keening)

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Music Review: Beautiful and Inspiring
Rating: 5 Stars

"The Virgin's Lament" is some of the most beautiful Irish traditional and modern music ever heard. It is largely 'a capela' and shows the full range of the human voice. Most of the singing is by a lady in ancient Irish Gaelic. The songs are very beautiful, pure sounding, spiritually moving (even if you don't speak Gaelic), and sorrowful and uplifting at the same time. Definitely good music for meditation, healing, relaxing, Christmas (Yule), Easter (Ostara). The music and language seem to bridge the gap between ancient Irish culture and the takeover of Ireland by the Romans, and the imposition of the Christian religion over the religion of the triple Goddess Brighid - she of the smith's forge, grain, and poetry. Listening to the music, it's not hard to feel that the original traditional songs were in part inspired by (and possibly about) Brighid Herself.
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The union between the well-respected Irish singer Nóirín Ní Riain and the monks of Glenstal is a perfect one. Ní Riain's lovely soprano tenderly chimes over the monks' deeper vocal blanket as they sing medieval Celtic religious songs in the sean nos or "old style" tradition--subtly varying enunciation and tempo. Singing in Gaelic and Latin Gregorian plainchant, Ní Riain delicately wavers and flies throughout Limerick's Glenstal Abbey, creating an angelic and purely holy atmosphere. On closer listen, it's actually the Glenstal monks who occasionally have trouble keeping up with Ní Riain's vocal mastery--though their lower, male voices provide a refreshing, grounding counterpart to her delicate, high tone. The last track, "The Blessed Virgin's Keening," offers a particular highlight of the extraordinary call-and-response littered throughout this album. One of the Glenstal monks takes the solo male vocal and the result is a lovely, repetitive, masslike conclusion to the CD. Ní Riain has also authored books on Celtic culture and Gregorian chant. --Karen Karleski

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