Celtic Harp Improvisation on Anne de Bretagne (traditional French Folk Tune) by Marianne Bouvette
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
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This is a harp improvisation on a traditional French folk song which tells about the life of Anne De Bretagne (Anne of Brittany), a French queen who reigned as Duchess of Brittany in the 15th century.
Played on Camac Bardic 27 by Marianne Bouvette
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when an instrument is played well by musicians like this the instrument itself takes on a beauty as if its alive
I'm a drummer, but the harp always makes me emotional in a beautiful kind of way. 😿
Doesn't it!
Such a shame that Camac has discontinued the Bardic series... but a beautiful song played by a beautiful harpist ❤️❤️❤️
Oh no...that is the harp I wanted.....
Marianne, as always, thank you for sharing joy and beauty in a world people too often make sordid and ugly.
Have you heard of the Welsh American harpist Sylvia Wood? Some of your phrasing reminds me of her on her Harp of Brandiswere, and of course, Alan Stivell. Blian nua go maith dhuit!
I could listen to this forever.
QUELLE POÉSIE ! QUELLE DOUCEUR ! QUEL TALENT ! UN RÊVE ! VOUS ÊTES UNE FÉE !❤🎼
MERCI POUR CE JOLI MOMENT HORS DU TEMPS !🥰
Merci Jocelyne, c’est vraiment trop gentil - merci du fond du cœur pour votre commentaire ❤️
I thought something very similar. It was like seeing someone from another time.
In case anyone was wondering, it's in D minor. I just played along on my guitar (while listening - mostly chords and a bit of harmonising) and it was soooo much fun!
RenneAtha great idea :)
Takes me back to the days as a child when I would listen to a wind up Swiss musical box and dream.
Amazingly gifted and young. Imagine the volume of music this awesome person will share with others. Simply a fine example of a good person with a great promising future.
Thank you so much Kenneth with your encouraging words. I am actually 44 years old already but growing younger over the years 😊
@@mariannebouvettemusic You're still very young friend. I'm 63 and feel like 50 but age is just a number but attitude and creativity is what really defines you. Keep sharing your awesome music and enjoy the journey.
@@mariannebouvettemusic - Please, don't get younger! You are perfect just the way you are 😃.
If I were a king on a throne, I'd have you playing for me all day and I would honor you.
@@rubiks6 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Amazing gifted girl and amazing music. This is pure medicine for the soul. Magnifique!
🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️
Ive listened to this over and over for the past half hour. So beautiful, thank you!
Marianne, I had to revisit this, and listen deeply, fully with my heart, not only with my ears. I had recently thought to reconcile with the first woman I'd ever courted and loved, Alisin. As is always the case, the first and brightest love that left the deepest and brightest impression. We both were very young and immature. and we did, in our secret and private times share something very special. How we met is a comical tale of itself. We met in an art class, she was excited by a painting I had done of an owl. It was being purchased by the city's government, I did another for her for her birthday. How I came to be in that class is the tale. It's like a cavalier tale, the Three Musketeers.
She posed for many paintings, sculptures, and photographs for me, all were successful projects. Museums and galleries were competing to get them. I was winning high honors and awards in cash at so many expositions! I do not know what, but something else scared her, made her feel insecure for her future. She decided to run off with a rich young doctor, a total clod, a clochard. Before she departed, she led him into a jealous and bizarre confrontation with me a year later. He announced he had graduated, and would be moving far away with her. I had, been very busy with other women who were very happy for her loss. I was well loved, much appreciated. I truly had not thought much of her since one month after our final tryst. It was all I could do to acknowledge she had made a woman's choice, and wish her well, and not beat him to the floor, though he taunted me, shouting and goose stepping around my little garret apartment, as the arrogant Nazis once marched down the Champs Elysee, demanding my photos, sculptures and paintings of her. I, in front of her pantomimed measuring him (for combat), and then told him, "this is your lucky day. The reject photographs and paintings are all I have left, write me a good check, $1500, take them to hell with you. My attorney is XXXX, he'll be handling business if you give me a bad check." He then noticed I was much taller than he, much more athletic, and ready to do my shift. She was shocked. I do think she also noticed I was mocking him, and now totally in control I asked her if she was quite sure...? Wished her well, and told her I had a date that night, and wished to shower and relax. I winked at her, she blushed...but told me she was certain all would be perfect. All of this in front of my very rich room mates, a young woman who had been studying with me-- lesbian, and the daughter of a billionaire, and a young Japanese woman who was my date, Alisin had never seen me so very confident, so demonstrative, so nor so enraged. This affair did not end as she hoped. One of my older cousins had clinical studies with this man, and learned he had badly abused her, had been giving her prescription drugs to make her like a slave.
Without a word, she reappeared more than one year later. I was working on my thesis piece for ceramics. I was there at this exact time to try to feel, to be normal. Rage had given way to sadness, sadness to depression, then fear, I was now beginning to accept the next four or five years were very different from what I and my family had hoped and planned for. My professor, a very good friend, announced I had a visitor, and ushered her in. I'd had the most challenging and distressing week of my life, so much death, my father, my favorite great aunt Riganna, other aunts, my grandmother, my mother diagnosed with cancer, the theft of my educational trust fund and our family's Celtic relics by my uncle! My godmother had absconded with my mother's family trust, both inheritances I'd worked so hard to earn after graduation and marriage.
The family elders had kept me gentile but poor since a small child. I was like a ragged church mouse in university. I had not slept in four days, was on the phone and sending courier messages to my lawyer trying to begin a recovery. (It took four years). I needed a woman's voice, her touch to cool my blazing head. I needed to grieve, to sleep, and make my plans to attend medical school in Belfast or Salamanca somehow, finding money to pay. I recognized her, though she seemed to have aged more than fifteen years...and I was thinking why has she reappeared, to finish her job as my own leannan sidhe? After university, for many years, I made no more art. I worked, went to war, returned, met my first wife, who had watched me for many years, another story of itself.
To win my pity, and my unselfish love, for a co-dependent relationship-- or worse, to control my inheritance and feed her doctor? Did she think she could just come and go in and out of my life like I'm a bistro? Yes, my family are old believers, we come of druidic and noble stock. And yes, I have ancestry from the refugees to Eriu such as Remi and the Menapii, the Brigantes, also, besides the Caelaecchi, the Gaels. We have these gifts, but they work only when the purpose is benevolent, pure. And, thanks to the influence of the priests, and my friends who were always telling me I was doing the right thing, to just forget her, my feelings and intentions were defensive, injured, a little mean and petty.
What had I to be afraid of? A five foot two inch 98 pound female Irish elf? This tiny woman I had loved, and who had, up to a certain crazy time, had been loving me? That was what I should have invoked in myself.
And she, protecting her pride, without a word of greeting or explanation, haughtily announced that she's be taking a professional job and working to win a lot of money! To become a yuppee! I know today how I should have gotten a grip on myself, and done passionately. We both failed. I don't know if a new start was possible, or even the right thing for us to do. Our time and blessings may have been over. But, we owed it to ourselves and our beautiful memories to forgive, laugh at our foolishness, renew at least our friendship. I immediately felt crushed.
My response instead, and my mother had prepared me with this in case she reappeared. It was from my family's traditional wedding vow: "You can not possess me, for I own myself. You can not command me, for I am a free person. If by chance we meet, let's just be cordial and admit we once knew each other a little, " same thing I'd told her when she gave me the sad news two years before. Simply brilliant. Blah.
With the passing of eighteen years, I heard she had met and married a rich much older man, as I had married a beautiful successful actress and model. And, we both were grieving their losses. My beautiful wife had died bearing my child. I lost both to an insane "Right To Life" doctor's advice. I knew better, but she wanted the baby so much. And he told her she could deliver by caesarian section. Fatally false.
I was successful, a recognized chief of my moiety, much beloved, and a tireless worker for Human Rights, a very strong warrior, too. She, a tired and anxious woman whose husbands cancer had destroyed his company and consumed his wealth. She was smoking her tobacco to death!
My wife had met her once, at a charitable benefit, when she was there in that city filming or modelling, I forget. She and Francoise Gilot, my most important patroness, made me promise never to resume our relationship, but to wait until Alisin and I were old and reconcile. I discovered last week, she is gone, of a heart attack.
I am married again, my wife is a Galician Asturian, I am again much beloved, and why indeed not? I am a father, writing my memoirs and a few novels. I consult on oncology. I help feed thousands of people. I care little about money, it's a result of my doing my best and helping people.
She is in a bed of cold clay with a brown marble stone with only her dates, no epitaph, no obituary in the newspaper or online. Her husband's obituary and epitaph do not even mention her. It made me weep. It seemed she had almost never lived!
According to my family's ancient beliefs, I now know how I shall be spending at least the beginning of the life after life-- getting it finally correct with her, as many times as necessary. A great gift was dishonored by us both, the most beautiful thing men and women are given. Hopefully, next time will be loving and fun!
The love of my beautiful family, the affection of all those I've helped, yes, they are with me. But her image at twenty years old, memories of the happiness, and then of our failure will be with me to my final day.
I was cleaning my garage storage a few weeks ago, looking through old scientific texts, and folios of my artwork. A small format photograph of her fell out, the only copy I'd not sold to her man. And, in a flash, I understood what I had done, what we had done. And I knew, in my maturity I should have sat her by my side, told her I was not in good condition, I'd be ready to talk after sleeping for the first time in many days. I should have put my finger on her lips and whispered "bi do thost. No more words" It means, shoosh, be quiet.
I should have said I knew we had things we each wanted the other to know, and things we each needed to know, we needed to know why were were there in this exact moment, not only with words, but especially with our feelings, passions. then stood up, taken her by the hand, caressed her, kissed her, and felt how she responded. An Irish kiss- a caress with the back of my hand, another deep kiss on the lips, look into her eyes (watching for signs) and then tell her, "not here, come with me. Will you come with me? " If I did not misjudge, then I should not write about what would have followed, as in times before, but better. And if she refused or slapped me, c'est la vie. I would have had my answer, and decided to reconcile years later. Thank you for this comforting musical vision of a little time when I first knew the joy and sorrow of love.
Bonjour Marianne toujours aussi somptueux d entendre la harpe Louis Dousset 😉😉😉
Hugues Macé merci beaucoup Louis :) ravie de te retrouver sur UA-cam!
Bonne fête de fin d année Marianne avec les vôtres. Amicalement
awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How many ships have you sunk? You beautiful Siren you! 🙂
This face is more likely to launch a thousand ships than to sink them...
This harpist and her song are amongst the things that make the world a better place and life worth living.
Dear Rolf - Your appreciation makes music worth playing - thank you ❤️
@@mariannebouvettemusic Do you play concerts?
CHAMPAGNE SPARKLES , WINE AGES , THIS PERFORMANCE , TIMELESS AND GLORIOUS , IS A FITTING COMPLEMENT TO ALL ONE'S HEART DESIRES!!! !!!V.W.
Grace and Beauty unbound, Much Love from the Heart of Texas
Vive Anne de Bretagne ,cest tres magnifique et votre musique enchant mon coeur ,vous etes tres grande 🙏🏻🙏🏻👏👏🎼🎼
Every time I watch, that Spring ambience and happy music gives me life, makes me feel so alive. I'm going to listen to it for thousands of time. Thank you. You are the best.
It is good for my soul
❤️ thank you, take good care ❤️
You may want to explore this link, Marianne. It's a path to an exquisite example of the mode Goltraí. Much joy to you!
I got a strong sense of the heart of the celtic people and culture coming from this tune as it is in Ireland.
The wind, the birds, the harp..absolutely splendid 😊
Wonderful, splendid, lush, vivid.
Beautiful, I have nothing to Add in my comments.
Thank You. Blessings.🙏
Que c'est Beau votre musique
Mille mercis ❤️❤️❤️
Tellement beau, ça donne envie d'avoir une harpe à la maison
Merci beaucoup de votre commentaire! Salutations de Belgique
You're so talented thanks very much for sharing this with us greetings from Africa
I've never heard this melody before, but I love it.
Delicacy and strength simultaneously.
Thank you so much - I think you just summarised harp in 4 words :)
I have been listening to this most days for the last three year and I never tire of hearing it. Thank you Marianne
This goes straight to my heart - thank you Michael 🙏
@@mariannebouvettemusic Strange thing is I'm a big metal, AC/DC fan and a rocker at heart but I really have a thing for Harp and Clarsach music and the only thing I can put it down to is my love for medieval history? I do think medieval, when I listen to this also with the old castle in the background, well I just love it. Please have a listen to the Chanters tune if you do not already know it. Thanks from the Scottish Highlands
@@michaelgallon9431 thank you so much for the suggestion - the Chanters Tune sounds lovely, thanks for the inspiration! Medieval music and metal can actually go quite well together (I like Celtic metal too)! So they’re not incompatible :) thanks again!
Beaucoup d'assurance chez cette excellente instrumentiste, grande musicalité. Très sûre de son art, malgré les conditions pas idéales du tournage ! 👌
Un immense merci de votre appréciation qui me touche énormément! Tourner en extérieur a toujours des avantages et des inconvénients - un cadre très inspirant (pour moi qui ai commencé par le piano, c’est magique de pouvoir apporter son instrument en pleine nature) mais défi acoustique et interruptions à la pelle (promeneurs à couper au montage, cela dit lorsqu’ils laissent un petit compliment au passage ça redonne de l’énergie pour le reste de l’enregistrement!) 🥰
Beautiful
A ROMAN ORATOR CRIED "LEND ME YOUR EARS" ! NO BLANDISHMENT NEEDED HERE!!! THIS IS ABSOLUTELY MARVELLOUS!!!ONE LISTENS OUT OF SHEER PLEASURE!!! V.W.
I CAN NO OTHER ANSWER MAKE BUT THANKS, AND THANKS, AND EVER THANKS…🖤
very good feeling to this celtic music
Nikos Nikos thanks so much ❤️
Improvisation et aussi fascination délicieux
c'est magnifique, que se soit un bel hommage à notre duchesse Anne de Bretagne
It reminds me of a little carillon I had when I was a child. I loved it so much that I was use to carry it with me everywhere I went. :)
Every drop of sound like blessed rain!
Beautiful & mystical sounds and environment.
This is so....chill.
Thank you. Lovely, setting, music,harpist.
Thank you so much 🙏
Love the choice of scenery; having a real castle in the background, next to a pond. The blue jacket was a nice touch.
The song is calming, rather tranquil; Anne De Bretagne must have been loved by her citizens.
Wikipedia mentions that she became the Queen Consort of Napoli during the Italian wars................
Spoken Word Illusions thank you! This is one of my favourite parks near Brussels, it has a very quiet atmosphere which nicely fits with the music!
Sweet music, to ease bitter hearts...
Thank you 🙏 May your heart be light and your cares be few
Bonjour Marianne. De nouveau un morceau magnifique que vous interprétez avec une grâce infinie. Le décor que vous avez choisi convient merveilleusement bien à cette musique un peu mélancolique. Je rêve de vous entendre jouer "Anne de Bretagne" dans les douves du château des ducs de Bretagne à Nantes.
Wonderful.
Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed it.
Just beautiful. You're so talented. I felt transported to another time.
This song moistened, comforted and motivated my soul.
It made me feel as if the sailor was fascinated by the songs played by Siren.
I can listen to it forever.
Thank you,thank you,thank you.
Puur en supergoed!!! The Netherlands.
Hartelijk bedankt 🙏🙏🙏
bella melodía que me hace andar en las nubes, acá en Chile este instrumento se conoce como arpa, saludos
Your playing is always so beautiful and inspiring. This piece is somehow giving me bittersweet nostalgia for a place and time I've never been. You have a natural connection to this instrument. 💛
May God endlessly bless Anne de Bretagne, and May this beautiful castle be restored to its former Glory. Love always wins.
Amen 🙏
Sounded very nice my friend. Have a nice new week
Wonderful place! Bealtiful music! I love harp
superbe !!!!
Merci beaucoup Stefania, c'est très gentil :)
Арфа это всегда прекрасно!!!!
Beautiful , that was one fast quack...did you see how fast that duck flew passed?and it got a quack in.......
Beautiful .. Wel played.
Beautiful piece.
This music heals anxiety and sadness..I will like to know what kind is it,thank you.
Quelle belle improvisation, la harpe est un instrument qui a quelque chose de magique et d'aérien. Bravo à la musicienne, depuis que l’algorithme a eu la bonne idée de lancer cette vidéo, je pense avoir écouté ce morceau quelques dizaines de fois...
Wunderschön.
sounds beaufiful merci :)
Beautiful and beautiful location
vous jouer juste .. Les muses vous ont bien inspiré et vous savez faire le vide pour laisser aux esprits de la musique se manifester à travers vous .. Merci
i love the sound of this harp, it sounds bright and beautiful
Gorgeous!!
Prachtig! En ook nog een mooie plek.
hamadah4 hartelijk bedankt! Inderdaad een van de mooiste parken in Vlaams-Brabant! ❤️ Veel muzikale groeten, Marianne
Verschrikkelijk mooie melodie en wat knap dat je de harp kan spelen.
Hartelijk bedankt 🙏
fabuleux !
Very pleasant! Harps and music are good for the soul
This is serene and completely captivating.
thank you so much
very nice tune
Such music can invoke more love in the world. Please keep playing. Help bring more love to the world. God Bless.
Thanks from the heart ❤️ there is no
Thanks from the heart for your comment ❤️ playing music is like trying to speak the mystical language of the universe, and there are few things as rewarding for a musician as being listened to. Thank you
Beatutiful Marianne !
Merci, Marianne - merveilleux! 💐🌺🍹
Beautiful! Thank you, Marianne.
Thank you so much Christine for your comment :) very nice to read! ❤
Juste un mot ma chère amie Marianne "Superbe". Nous ne nous connaissions pas à l'époque mais tu comprendras aisément qu'à présent, je découvre avec bien plus d'assiduité tes gestes et tes placements de main si purs et précis, telle une araignée tricotant sa toile, tu évolue sur ta harpe de belle manière. Merci pour ce joli don à la musique et bisous musicaux de France.
Philix le petit barde de France 😉
Had to listen/watch again - ♥️♥️
This is beautiful👌❤❤
Great tune, and a wonderful interpretation! I usually play larger harps, so I'm really interested in how to fit a tune well on a smaller one... Lovely, thanks!!!
Harfe: Susanne Globisch thank you for your nice comment! I arranged this piece making sure that the key where I transposed it allowed me to play the lowest notes using the bass strings on the left hand, for more richness and depth of tone. I also enjoy playing the grand pedal harp but I am always amazed by how versatile smaller instruments can be! Thanks again for watching and happy harping! Musical greetings from Belgium ❤
One of the most beautiful things I've ever heard. 😯👍 Thank you.
🙏🙏🙏 so nice of you. Thank you ❤️
In love with your Art. Love your music and you. For the rest of my life. Thank you very much for this magic Moments ❤
Magnifique!!! 👏
Mille mercis Adrienne! ❤️
This is such a stunningly lovely video...the song...the setting...everything...deeply moving...thank you
Thank you so much for your kind words, very glad you liked it ❤️
Majestic your Majesty Of The Harp.No wonder the birds were singing while you played.
:) thank you! This is one of the reasons why I love Celtic harp - you can take it with you in nature and have the birds and wind sing along
@@mariannebouvettemusicDid the Celts invent the harp?
This is beautiful - the music and the location! (Plus, the blue leather jacket is fab!!! ;))
Thank you so much ❤️
One moment im in my room watching youtube and all of a sudden teleported in a medieval tavern drinking ale.
Welcome to my world 🥰
Complimenti 🥰❤🙏 e grazie
great - I think you are not from here - right ? an angel who is coming down to earth to bring this beautiful sound to us - Thank you :-)
Holger Schmitt this is so nice to read, thank you! I’m no angel but I do believe harps come from heaven :) i love sharing the magic beauty of harp music so very glad you enjoyed it. With warm musical greetings from Belgium, Marianne
Lovely relaxing piece. Great location, reminds me of an old castle and moat I saw in Brussels many years ago.
eveny119 thank you so much! This is Prinsenkasteel, in Grimbergen, north of Brussels, maybe that’s the one you saw :)
Wow. This is improv? You have limitless talent.
Thank you so much ❤️ I am only improvising in the beginning until 1:43 though! The rest is a traditional French folk tune :)
very beautiful sound of the harp congratulations
Thank you so much 🙏🙏🙏
Wonderful!
Always nice to listen again and again ♥️
Love this piece so much.🥰🥰🥰
Lovely composition played perfectly. 😀
Bravo ! magnifique