"farewell to stromness" by LAGQ

Peter Maxwell Davies conposed.

[@user-pp9qh5kx8c]

My husbnd Derek, a brilliant pianist and organist, heard this music on radio. It was the last piece he shared with me before he got dementia, so reminds us of the wonderful years we had living in Scotland. i would like it to be played at his funeral. Beautiful, and so lovely played by the guitar group.

[@tanyaraven9492]

My daughter walked down the aisle to this lovely music. It was an outside wedding in a redwood forest with the trees towering above like a cathedral. Pure magic.

[@edwardhoran2511]

Your daughter has impeccable taste and may she and her husband be blessed!

[@marthaterry9906]

Thank you all. This is beautiful. You all play masterfully, with such emotion and color. I am in heaven when I listen to this video.

[@pwoody1958]

So richly gorgeous! Two favorite moments: 2:38 -- Bill's face -- how many times I've had the same emotion during a beautiful musical experience! And at 3:06 when Bill and Scott sing to each other -- emotions of hope and love! Thank you LAGQ!

[@henrygingercat]

I've just sat through half a dozen guitar versions of Sir Peter's guilty secret thinking he was right to compose it for piano. But then I heard this...magnificent!

[@odinnshred]

It is wonderful to see guitarists playing together. It is usually such a lonely instrument, so it is nice to see it successfully integrated into an ensemble.

[@MsAmru]

sheer beauty, ever since I saw this movie Forever young I couldn't set my mind off this track......... lovely indeed

[@adineshd]

4 hearts combined into one gorgeous heart tugging symphony. Simply awesome.

[@Robutube1]

I realise that this was written for piano, but the arrangement (and playing!) here is absolutely superb.

[@TheFunkadelicFan]

Christ! That's just about the most beautiful thing I've ever heard!

[@keiththomas795]

Always been enchanted by Sir Maxwells own piano version, but the four guitars provide us with a delightful alternative. Live on Sir Maxwell through your music.

[@greenswift]

Always Haunting, yet serene. An interesting history to this piece. A campaign about exploitation of a beautiful island

[@FRAGIORGIO1]

Wonderfully sad farewell. Fine work indeed.

[@gw3856]

So beautiful.

[@jpavia10]

They work so well together

[@Skullclone]

absolutely beautiful

[@flyfifer51]

RIP to a musical giant...

[@NonInflatable]

This was PMD worrying about the possibility of a uranium mine being developed on Stromness in 1980. It didn't happen, but it left us with a lovely melody.

[@marcstrat]

great quartet,amazing music

[@whitepanties2751]

I don't know who LAGQ are or what else they have recorded, but after this I want to find out. 'Farewell to Stromness' in the usual piano version has beauty but can have monotony as there are so many repetitions of the same 7 note phrase. Here, it avoids that as different guitars come in at different points. This is lovely.

[@angelikaseegers-classicalg8053]

A very beautiful piece!! It sounds wonderful with the 4 guitars !! Thank you für sharing.

[@gberndt4music]

This is so beautiful..

[@carenome1]

the guitar was invented just so these four masters could play this piece.

[@cieszewskimariusz]

Indeed, fabulous performance!

[@elsaalcala5486]

Julie Berci And for Paco de Lucía

[@drnickyp]

Farewell to Max xxxxxxx

[@ColinBurnside]

Great Ensemble playing lads for such a beautiful piece of music. Colin CGS N Ireland

[@NickShillitoMusic]

Absolutely beautiful :')

[@1viva]

Sublime! I'm in paradise already!

[@Joshyi18]

5* all the way beautiful arrangement, great piece

[@lappy386]

Stromness is a town on the Orkney Islands in Scotland.

[@ukeplayer91]

This is definitely the best version of this piece I have heard. It might seem weird but to me its actually like the guitars are singing to each other? If that makes any sense at all? Especially the section after 3:05 :) Just beautiful!

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[@camdynzaid24]

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[@camdynzaid24]

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[@rebeccaoravec5349]

This piece has been a staple of my life

[@Davidoff73]

this piece is extraordinary

[@ColinBurnside]

Its a wonderful ensemble piece these guys are wonderful, Playing on your own is fine. But playing with other is so much better. It brings you on so much better. Thanx lads great job. CGSNI.

[@Raymondnk]

Amazing piece of music. I did watch this movie on TV in India very long time ago and this song has been on my mind ever since. I have been trying to get it but then, It's definitely taken a sure long time to hear it again! Thanks for the post on KZbin.

[@gilltennant9237]

The piece was originally written as part of a review. This was a protest against the development of a uranium mine in the Stromness area. PMD was foremost amongst the resistance to this, and the community won and the project abandoned.

[@_dbzeibert_1718]

Brilliant. To some sheep, other sheep appear the same. As such, I'll have another round to this one.

[@berndschillinger5224]

i saw and heard them in Autum 1988 here in munich

[@georgehill6726]

Simply lovely

[@philout55]

tres joli, j'adore

[@martinlee8057]

Beautiful

[@philruane5910]

Im an expert seeker of brilliance. I found it again.

[@carinchapin]

thank you

[@chrismca]

@ukeplayer91 What you've written makes perfect sense. That musical technique when the instrument take turns is actually named "call and response." I think it can be quite beautiful and moving when used well. Cheers

[@timeout3033]

I was at this show in StL. It was right before Jordan Peterson got famous and left the band.

[@nancyjanetsmith]

This should be subtitled “love”❤

[@chrisstanford3652]

🎶🎵🤗🌹❤️

[@okieconservative1]

Stromness is a town in northern UK that has rich deposits of uranium. It was desired to mine the uranium, The piece was written because of this

[@simonbarrowuk]

It's in Scotland - in the southwestern part of Mainland Orkney.

[@georgehill6726]

Northern UK?

[@pianoburner]

Bravo

[@johnjamieson7087]

The French guitarist Anne Chaurand plays a beautiful solo guitar version of this piece on her album "Airs d'Ecosse". Check it out.

[@HoTN1755]

ty :)

[@Shuggydylan]

Lol, ma man ! Ya always get the odd bampot on yt !

[@WilfriedAnonymo]

4 dislikes, ... one of them surely must be Andrew. I don't know why Scott, Bill, and John disliked this. They're still in. Anyway, 4 dislikes is a hell of a coincidence. :)

[@Dreadtower]

And the names of the musicians?

[@abarukasyh]

LAGQ (Los Angeles Guitar Quartet)

[@ukeplayer91]

@chrismca Yeah I know the technique :) Its just how well it was done in this piece by the musicians rather than just the composer :)

[@HoTN1755]

can someone explain me what does stromness means plz?

[@gilltennant9237]

Stromness means headland in the tidal stream. The harbour is called Hamnavoe, both have Norn or Norse origins, as Orkney and Shetland were both part of Scandinavia until Orkney was relinquished as part of the unpaid dowry of a Norse princess who was to marry the Scottish king.

[@manichairdo6346]

He wrote this tune outraged that open cast mining was planned without a care of the land or for its people who'd have been displaced. Amazingly, the plan never happened.