Skye Boat Song (trad. Scottish) - APOLLO'S FIRE, Amanda Powell (from "Elegance - Harper's Voice")
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- Опубліковано 14 кві 2021
- Skye Boat Song
Traditional Scottish, arranged by Jeannette Sorrell
Amanda Powell, soprano
APOLLO'S FIRE | The Cleveland Baroque Orchestra
Jeannette Sorrell, Artistic Director
Performed February 2021 at First Baptist Church, Cleveland, Ohio.
This song evokes the story of Bonnie Prince Charlie, who led a rebellion against the King of England in the 18th century. After being defeated, he escaped in disguise by taking a boat to the Isle of Skye.
This performance is excerpted from "ELEGANCE: The Harper's Voice." To watch the full concert, go to apollosfire.org/worldwide/
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Emi Tanabe, violin
Kathie Stewart, Irish flute
Brian Kay, lute
René Schiffer, cello
Anna O'Connell & Luke Conklin, harps
Tina Bergmann, hammered dulcimer
Jeannette Sorrell, harpsichord & direction
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Video production: Erica Brenner
Audio engineer: Daniel Shores
Video Editing: 24/7 Productions
it's a shame there's only a few, maybe 10 people listening live in the audience, this was a performance for 10,000 people. Beautiful!
You are correct, but with due consideration, the masks show it was during the Covid pandemic when few people were out.
This is beautiful !
106k watched now 🥰
You are so right! Absolutely beautiful!
Covid sucked!
Many years ago, when walking long distance in Belgium, with a girlfriend, I passed two men walking in kilts and with silent bagpipes. When passing I asked: The Sky Boat Song, please? It took some time after, but then I heard the sad base pipes starting and then this beautiful tune.
But Bonny Prince Charles sadly died in Rome, very poor and never, ever came back to Scotland!
This is an absolutely gorgeous arrangement of the Skye Boat Song, and I'd love to hear Amanda sing the version which moves me most: "Speed bonny boat / like a bird on the wing, / 'Onward' the sailors cry..."
Yes, some of the lyrics here sound like they are adapted from the Outlander version.
If the Bonnie Prince was called "British" in his lifetime, he would have had such a fit! Bonne Prince Charlie was a Scottish Catholic to his dying day!
The collaborations between Amanda Powell and Apollo’sBaroque are the best!
Really stirs up my Scottish roots. Family came from Glasgow and Lewis in the early 1800's. Apollo's Fire - Great!
This is amazing. Whole performance deserve a world class award!❤
Thanks Amanda, Jeannette, and the other wonderful musicians in this video.
Beautiful, angelic. It just pulls at your heartstrings & calls to your soul 💕
As a Scot I was very moved by this beautiful performance
And as an 'what do you say a man who loves also the music ?
Beautiful rendition of the song , also i note this video was put on UA-cam on the 275th Anniversary of the Battle of Culloden . Duncan frae Bonnie Scotland .
Exquisite music! What a beautiful voice! Brava & Bravo!
Well done lads and lassies! A beautiful performance which I will enjoy watching time and again. I appreciated the spoken words from both Ms. Sorrell and Ms. Powel in prelude to a familiar tune popularized by Outlander (my favorite show) to the full lyrical version of the versus. Ms. Powell's vocal abilities are top=notch in clarity and vocal technique. The instrument ensemble was sublime - not to mention the venue was as beautiful as the performance. Thank you for sharing this with us here.
I can't be the only one here after watching Outlander.🥰
What an amazing voice
Great song and artists! The original lyrics would have have been enchanting!
Just beautiful...the music tugs at the heartstrings...creates a yearning for something unknown
Amazing song, amazing performance
The last note, hanging in the air, engulfed by the stillness, is so haunting and plaintive that it pierces the soul.
Perfect.
Beautiful song I heard it for the first time in the outlander series love that song and just sticks with you
These musicians are so great...Love you folks...Especially the lead vocalist.
Oh, I am speechless.. Everything in this stage is heavenly beautiful.
So very beautiful. Makes me ache to know my ancestors.
The best rendition ever of this moving song. Compliments to Amanda and to all the amazing Apollo's Fire group!!!
You've heard all versions then, have you?
I'd say a fierce competiter would be Bear McCreary's arrangement for Outlander
I wish this performance had the original lyrics. It is so beautifully sung.
A great rendition of a great song by a great beauty. Band was great too. My day's highlight.
Beautiful! It looks to me like most of the audience were taking the COVID-19 pandemic quite seriously - and therefore they didn't show up!!
Absolutely stellar!! Perfecto!
The most beautiful, most heartfelt version of this song that I've ever heard.
Stunning rendition. I could listen again and again. What a beautiful voice. Can’t beat a bagpipe though which would have brought tears to my eyes. Which this song does anyway. I hope it encourages people to investigate the history of the song ☺️ well done Amanda
Beautiful ❤❤❤❤❤
I'm from Cleveland - and that makes this video even more beautiful. Thank you.
This is just incredible. I am speechless and in awe of the wonderful job everyone did to put this together. Thank you for this gem.
What a VOICE!
Thank you, Amanda, thank you, Apollo's Fire!
Very moving version of the song. Thank you
Wonderful!! Mystical, enchanting and soothing.
In the ESC, every year we have to listen screaming,colourful peformences, but No(!) music.... this traditionell performance of the Sky Boat Song ... just a handful of listener. What a shame! A performance which touches soul and heart - music for eternity! I am listening with tears in my eyes .... thank you!
Powerfully bittersweet. Marvelous performance!
Absolutely gorgeous. I've been searching for these lyrics, I find them more touching than the "original". Each artist did an outstanding job
This was used as the opening music for the series “Outlander”.
Beautiful Song!!!!
Aboslutely perfect! 💯
Such a beautiful song..
So moving.
Divine! I loved it! Thanks! BRAVO!!!!👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Beautiful version. Thanks.
astonishing performance where all stars met! thank you!
I would love to hear Amanda sing "Song for Ireland" .... What a great voice !!!!!
Beautiful !
What a beautiful rendition of this song! Can't wait for the album!
心に染みる演奏です
Pure magic 👏
This song is very beautiful ❤❤❤❤❤
Great rendition and introduction.
This is just so lovely, thank you for sharing.
0:02 1:53 A música que passa na série Outlander 😮😍😍😍😍😍😍😍.
Beautiful interpretation ❤
Thank you for sharing this beautiful mesmerizing performance.
HAHA, Now we finally have a king Charlie III.
My great grandparents from Lewis and Glasgow would be proud!
Beautiful performance. This is pretty high quality audio, for those who missed the live performance.
It was lovely. Thank you ❤
you artists are wonderful
This is amazing! Truly love it=)
Brilliant !
Amazing! BRAVO!
Beautiful
When I was a kid (about 1960) I read a children's novel about Prince Charlie. Then I learned this song. Even though I have no genetic connection to Scotland, this song has followed me through my life
wonderful storytelling and atmosphere and singing and music. Thanks so much!
Superb!!!!
Beautiful! WONDERFUL SINGING, AMANDA, THANK YOU!
Absolutely beautiful ❤❤❤❤
Amazing
This is an amazing performance ❤
Very moving.
melodic!
So many heart-rendingly beautiful songs came out of this tragic and hopeless rebellion.
I could never support the rebellion itself. Fighting to maintain a cruel and outdated feudal system that had been rejected by the rest of England and Scotland a hundred or more years earlier.
Ladies and Gentlemen. Lovely and more!!!
Absolutely Beautiful…..
Omg so so so beautiful
Inenarrável 💕
LINDA INTERPRETAÇÃO! AMEI!❤
I'd have been a Jacobite...absolutely
Magique!
Bravo c'est magnifique
I hear Amanda Powell singing many songs
Waoooo!!! Qué hermoso👏👏👏
🙏❤️❤️❤️ from France
❤Beautiful❤
She's amazing singer its to bad Pavarotti is gone I'd love to here them together
Nice! ty
Impecável
Well people are discovering it now!
This young lady is so sweet.. love you baby
If I was a citizen of Scotland I would definitly vote for independence
Would love to see Scotland free from England
I still want that woman to marry me she has a voice that would sing me to sleep and keep me relaxed forever
Lindo lindo lindo
I'd be a Jacobite today.
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These are Stevenson's lyrics, rather than the original.